The productivity of Nuevo León, Mexico, is higher than in South Korea, but that of Guerrero, another Mexican state, resembles levels in Honduras.

So is higher productivity the way out? Even assuming that governments could identify and implement structural reforms that yielded quick productivity gains, it is not clear that higher productivity leads to increased competitiveness.

So higher levels of fecal coliform require higher levels of chlorine, threatening those aquatic organisms.

There is no magical path to higher productivity growth.

(2001) suggests that net primary productivity (NPP) rates may have increased to higher than pre impact levels over the long term because of the high carbon dioxide concentrations.

This should allow higher productivity than was feasible in 1960.

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.

Improved learning leads to better jobs, greater productivity, and higher incomes in every society.

How is this possible? After all, higher productivity should bring lower unit labor costs.

Lower productivity and higher unit labor costs eroded firms' willingness to hire, leaving Europe with chronically higher unemployment than in the US.

Production levels are already higher than in Britain and Germany.

Currently, more women reach higher levels of education than men.

Changes in education levels, unionization, and productivity are part of the explanation for this instability.

Austerity reduced the number of employed workers, particularly those with low skill and productivity levels.

Second, while pushing the technological frontier is the crucial element of growth in industrial countries, what matters for developing countries is transforming production and export structures, particularly by shifting resources to activities with higher levels of productivity.

During the compensated phase on insulin resistance, insulin levels are higher, and blood glucose levels are still maintained.

More and higher quality energy increases production through modernized communications, improved productivity, and a better business environment.

Unless it has achieved high enough levels of productivity and growth, it will miss its chance.

First, higher levels of CO2 are making the world s oceans acidic.

At higher levels of income, markets become saturated and growth slows.

They need to restructure away from traditional primary products to higher productivity activities, mainly manufactures and modern services.

Without it, the region will not be able to overcome its low levels of productivity and competitiveness.

He claims that poverty could be to blame for its higher levels.

The best result had been achieved in the higher levels of education.

The Australian Government develops policies and manages programmes that support efficient and effective labour market assistance higher productivity, higher pay workplaces and increased workforce participation, including for women.

The proportion of female students on the lower levels of higher education is higher in economics, law, environmental studies and journalism.

In India, they remain on the land or move to petty services where their productivity is not much higher.

The production levels began to rise from 1968 onwards due to the expansion of ricelands and increased productivity.

The reason we have done so well is that annual productivity growth has been higher than Keynes projected about 1.6 for the UK, and a bit higher for the US.

Structural reforms are always useful, but increasing productivity takes a long time and does not always translate into higher competitiveness.

For catch up countries, like China, rapid growth is often accompanied by brisk structural change that moves factors of production, especially labor, from low productivity activities to economic sectors with much higher productivity.

At the high end, finance, insurance, and business services, taken together, have productivity levels that are similar to manufacturing.

This is sustainable as there is huge room for South Asia to catch up to rich countries productivity levels.

All these factors contribute to high levels of fertility, morbidity and mortality, as well as to low economic productivity.

In one study, middle school students left home alone for more than three hours a day reported higher levels of behavioral problems, higher rates of depression and lower levels of self esteem than other students.

Inventories are actually at historically normal levels and 10 higher than five years ago.

Higher than normal concentrations of oxygen lead to increased levels of reactive oxygen species.

In the same period, women were insufficiently represented in the higher levels of education.

This would not necessarily have been a bad thing if labor productivity (and earnings) were not substantially higher in manufacturing than in the rest of the economy 75 higher, in fact.

Carbon dioxide levels are higher today than they have been in at least 800,000 years.

The education system is based on four levels pre school, basic, secondary, and higher education.

This is easily explained by their geographic segregation, higher levels of unemployment, higher school dropout rates, and disproportionately frequent interactions with the criminal justice system.

Studies of female monkeys at Wake Forest University (2009) discovered that individuals suffering from higher stress have higher levels of visceral fat in their bodies.

(b) Capacity building at the institutional and industry levels to enhance industrial productivity and marketing performance in the agro industrial sector