A much larger share was lost productivity.

Some of the countries that achieved the highest growth in labor productivity also lost the most competitiveness (e.g. Ireland).

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

The same source noted that labour disputes are frequent in New Caledonia, leading to many hours of lost productivity owing to strikes and lockouts.

Improving carbon productivity requires improving land productivity.

In fact, across the EU, the opposite often is true. Some of the countries that achieved the highest growth in labor productivity also lost the most competitiveness (e.g. Ireland).

Mega agricultural operations often are responsible for poisoning our waterways and our land, and it produces this incredibly unhealthy product that costs us billions in healthcare and lost productivity.

Productivity measurement

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

Paying for Productivity

Today s Productivity Paradox

Raising agricultural productivity.

Improving farm productivity.

As a result, more than one million active cases have been successfully treated, while the incidence of the disease which has cost Indonesia s economy millions of dollars in lost productivity has been driven down.

The Productivity of Trust

The Coming Productivity Revolution

Automation, Productivity, and Growth

Forest health and productivity

Enhancing productivity and competitiveness

But the cost in lost jobs, lost wages, and lost homes will be enormous.

A Productivity Boom in Waiting?

Rising incomes require rising productivity.

Sustainable Development and Productivity Division

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.

He lost his money he lost his power.

Germany lost 15.1 of its active male population, Austria Hungary lost 17.1 , and France lost 10.5 .

America, China, and the Productivity Paradox

Productivity growth makes many things possible.

First, low productivity sectors shed labor.

Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board (SPRING).

Taking the above factors into account, the Panel has made the following modifications to Iran's calculations of the quantities of crops lost Addition of a variable to Iran's statistical model to account for changes in agricultural productivity over time.

In particular, they show that services have exhibited unconditional convergence in productivity recently. That is, countries furthest away from the global frontier of labor productivity have seen the fastest productivity growth in services.

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.

In the first part, the project will review the empirical literature on productivity analysis and the methods of measuring productivity.

Studies have shown that investments in health care can yield a six fold economic return. To offer but one example the global impact of maternal and newborn deaths has been estimated at US 15 billion a year in lost productivity.

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

Upgrading traditional economic sectors though enhanced productivity

Competitiveness enhancement through quality and productivity improvements.

Italy s new leaders must address this situation by decoupling labor s contribution to productivity growth from that of capital and total factor productivity.

Second, high productivity sectors expand and hire more labor. Both processes are needed if the reforms are to increase economy wide productivity.

Indeed, productivity growth in India s service sector matches productivity growth in China s manufacturing sector, thereby reducing poverty by enabling wages to rise.

Iraq further asserts that Jordan's claim of a reduction in rangeland productivity is based on just two values for productivity in 1983 and in 1993, and that the claim is inappropriately extrapolated from the rangeland productivity claim.

I'm lost.

Tom lost.