Productivity growth stems from enhanced adaptive capabilities to use modern technology and commercialize new knowledge.

The Ministry of Science and Technology of China, within its National High Tech R D Programme, initiated an Agricultural Expert System.

With high and volatile oil prices, businesses will focus their investments less on boosting productivity and more on maintaining flexible energy usage.

(f) Support the efforts of developing countries, individually and collectively, to harness new agricultural technologies in order to increase agricultural productivity through environmentally sustainable means

(f) To support the efforts of developing countries, individually and collectively, to harness new agricultural technologies in order to increase agricultural productivity through environmentally sustainable means

Paying for Productivity

The asymmetric flows of technology can be affected by increasing attention to the institutional basis for determining the direction and pace of technological development through linkages with supply chains and production networks.

A given pace of accumulation can of course generate different growth rates, depending on its nature and composition, as well as the efficiency with which production capacity is utilized.

Through the use of radiation mutation to create new varieties of barley and rice, and the active involvement of Peruvian farmers in the breeding process, agricultural productivity and income have increased.

93. Welcomes the efforts of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean for more productive utilization of the allocated resources and the policy of recruiting national officers

The Coming Productivity Revolution

Today s Productivity Paradox

Improving farm productivity.

Making all this happen requires moving toward a new model for ensuring that we are more productive globally with core resources that we have long taken for granted.

America, China, and the Productivity Paradox

(a) Production and production capacity

Raising agricultural productivity.

In addition, UNIDO is actively promoting business partnerships to support energy efficiency and clean technologies for enhancing productivity and competitiveness of selected industries in several countries.

The use of outsourcing and common service arrangements as well as ICT systems and tools discussed in chapter V, could also enhance productivity and streamline transaction costs.

Took note of document DP 2005 CRP.2 on the update on the progress achieved in the partnership between UNDP and UNIFEM

And a small division of labor means low productivity.

Rising incomes require rising productivity.

Expert Meeting on Enhancing the Productive Capacity of

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Expert Meeting on Enhancing Productive Capacity of

That means investing in education and building incentives to increase productivity through changes in products, processes, or organization.

The ultimate irony is that there are simultaneously excess capacity and vast unmet needs and policies that could restore growth by using the former to address the latter.

Instead of the productivity surge experienced in the US, it has gone through a sort of productivity holiday, with serious consequences.

At the same time, a comparison of productivity between the top 25 European and American companies shows that regulations are driving differences in productivity.

Country Firms through Internationalization

Bangladesh

As a new IMF report acknowledges, structural reforms there have failed to produce the intended effects, partly because they ran up against political and implementation difficulties, and partly because their potential to increase growth in the short run was overstated.

A Productivity Boom in Waiting?

A much larger share was lost productivity.

But governments can influence the development of productivity.

Enhancing productivity and competitiveness

The trick is to ensure that the economy undergoes the right kind of structural change a shift from the low productivity to the high productivity sectors.

They are hungry because they lack the ability to buy high yield seeds, fertilizer, irrigation equipment, and other tools needed to increase productivity.

But this positive productivity response is not guaranteed.

And labor hoarding was encouraged at the expense of productivity and profitability.

It also expects that, with time, productivity will be increased.

Welcoming the launch of the Productive Safety Nets Programme in 2005,

2005 5 Options for a future business model for the United Nations Capital Development Fund

The increase in productivity is combined with the promotion of sustainable production systems.

Welcoming the launch of the Productive Safety Nets Programme in 2005,