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Such policies include subsidies that favor state-owned firms over private firms, leading to waste and lost productivity.
At a time when Europe is struggling to boost productivity and competitiveness, reinstating border controls would come as a serious blow.
Without its own currency, the only cure for a chronic trade deficit is real wage reductions or relative productivity increases.
While this pattern of official behavior is reprehensible, the real disaster is that it destroyed Arabs’ economic productivity and initiative.
The reason that the Millennium Development Goals are feasible is that powerful existing technologies give us the tools to make rapid advances in the quality of life and economic productivity of the world’s poor.
That is precisely what McKinsey’s Global Infrastructure Initiative, which held its second meeting in Rio de Janeiro last month, aims to do, by promoting practical global solutions aimed at raising the productivity and efficiency of every aspect of infrastructure.
Increasing infrastructure’s productivity begins in the planning phase.
Governments could save $400 billion annually simply by increasing the efficiency and productivity of existing infrastructure.
This means that in order to compete successfully with China, Latin American countries will need to increase productivity growth.
But imagine the uproar against a tax on all capital goods: Woe betide those who would diminish domestic productivity and competitiveness!
To the extent that automation improves productivity and corporate profitability, the whole of society would begin to share the benefits.
Worse, over the longer term, low investment undermines productivity, while protracted unemployment destroys skills.
This, in turn, would bring greater gains from trade, stronger competition, larger cross-border capital flows, lower borrowing costs, and more opportunities for sharing risk, all of which were expected ultimately to boost investment and productivity.
Compared to the five years before the euro’s launch in 1999, productivity growth has since slowed in Italy, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands, while over the same period it accelerated or remained constant in Denmark, Sweden, and the UK, the European Union members that remained out.
Rising productivity does not require relentlessly increasing trade intensity.
Optimal trade intensity depends on many factors – such as relative labor costs, transport costs, productivity levels, and economy-of-scale effects.
Only a handful of economies over the last 60 years have fully caught up to advanced-economy living standards, and all relied on export-led growth to drive productivity and job creation in manufacturing.
In the retail sector, which employs a huge number of Japan’s unskilled workers – the so-called “mom and pop” shops – Japanese productivity is now 25% lower than in Western Europe.
Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (in power between 2000 and 2004) and his chief economic adviser and minister of finance, Heizo Takenaka, understood all too well that Japan was losing ground in terms of productivity.
Properly motivated, investors can boost renewable energy; invest in sustainable urban transport; encourage innovation; create jobs in cleaner technologies; raise productivity; and help shift the region away from its reliance on finite natural resources.
Persistent undervaluation, achieved through the accumulation of foreign-exchange reserves, reduces the incentive to pursue structural reform and achieve productivity growth.
For starters, growth and employment in the tradable sector is adversely affected, essentially because the terms of trade are mismatched with the economy’s productivity levels.
Productivity gains have been sluggish for nearly 15 years, and the country’s export basket is the same as it was in the 1980’s.
As the IADB has pointed out in several earlier reports, productivity has been stagnant in most of Latin America for a half-century or more.
But it reflects some negative trends – starting with long-term weakness in productivity growth.
China’s productivity growth rate, which averaged 8% over the last 20 years, may have dropped now to less than 6%.
And the country is not exactly positioned for a surge in productivity.
If the government continues to prop up SOEs, especially “zombie” firms, the concentration of a large number of workers in low-productivity, stagnant SOEs will continue to undermine productivity growth.
Is Productivity Growth Becoming Irrelevant?
LONDON – As the Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow noted in 1987, computers are “everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”
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