They facilitate technology transfer, create jobs, boost productivity, enhance competitiveness, accelerate economic growth and eliminate poverty.

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Structural reforms to boost productivity will also be crucial to ensure Europe s economic recovery and the survival of its social model.

Likewise, while reducing employment is one way to boost productivity, it implies high macroeconomic costs in terms of lost revenues and higher social spending.

But it can succeed only if we embark now on an agenda to boost natural resource productivity more broadly and on a more integrated basis.

Politicians can and will promise to do a better job, but they cannot succeed unless we identify ways to boost government services efficiency and productivity.

When it comes to productivity, managers either invest in employee training, more efficient manufacturing processes, and the like, or they take steps that appear to boost productivity in the short run but that erode it in the long run.

Many economies need to fix the financial sector and restore credit, while many more need to raise productivity in order to boost growth and create jobs.

The African Development Bank Group promoted policies and strategies aimed at increasing the efficiency, productivity and capacity of African regional transport corridors that would boost international trade.

China may be able to rely on policy reforms to boost productivity growth but, with relatively low innovative capacity, it will struggle to catch up with frontier technologies.

Similarly, Ethiopia has made strides towards shifting agricultural policies and investing more in productivity improvements for small farmers, with increased spending helping to boost crop yields over the past several years.

If the companies managers do their job, that reinvestment will boost the value of your shares to 10,450.

Apprenticeships could not only help to boost human capital, lower unemployment, and increase labor productivity they could also help to fuel the innovation and entrepreneurial spirit that ultimately drive economic growth and development.

The meeting had identified ways in which ICT could boost economic growth in developing countries through improvements in innovation and product development processes, efficiency and productivity gains in enterprises, and expanded market reach.

Improving carbon productivity requires improving land productivity.

It artificially creates as in France socially homogenous poor neighborhoods where the unskilled live among themselves, disconnected from others, making it harder for them to benefit from the agglomeration economies that would boost their productivity.

Now that transaction costs are so low, the primary benefit of working at work is that the physical interactions foster an organizational culture and boost creativity, rather than efficiency or productivity, within an established routine.

Chinese officials hope that higher household incomes will boost consumer spending, as the tightening labor market causes wages to rise and as urbanization shifts workers from low productivity farm work to higher wage employment in the cities.

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Their poverty causes low farm productivity, and low farm productivity reinforces their poverty.

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Raising agricultural productivity.

Improving farm productivity.

When there is sufficient excess supply in the economy, promoting supply side productivity is practically useless without efforts to boost demand. That implies that it was not appropriate to focus on growth until the deflation gap narrowed considerably that is, until now.

One potential solution is broad based profit sharing programs. Together with job training and opportunities for workers to participate in problem solving and decision making, such programs have been shown to foster employee engagement and loyalty, reduce turnover, and boost productivity and profitability.

Throughout modern history, industrialization has been the most effective driver of structural poverty reduction, owing to its capacity to expand employment opportunities, boost productivity, and increase wages. No developing country has achieved the economic growth necessary to become a developed country without industrializing.

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This helps boost private consumption and investment.

Making finance work should boost economic development significantly.

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Rising incomes require rising productivity.

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Such investments would drive a decisive shift from low productivity to higher productivity sectors, boosting employment and wages.

Unit labor costs reflect compensation levels and productivity gains in productivity can offset the effect of wage growth.

It should be noted, however, that productivity gains are partly attributable to a massive wave of employee layoffs the dark side of economic remediation. Likewise, the reduced labor costs and falling inflation caused by recession and austerity helped to boost Spanish firms competitiveness within the eurozone.

The neo Keynesian economist wants to boost demand generally.

Warmer temperatures will boost agricultural production and improve health.

Consistency alone would be a big boost for confidence.

So a stimulus will boost both output and employment.