Worse still, labor has been displaced from more productive tradable activities (in manufacturing) to less productive informal activities (services).

A larger capital stock would mean thicker markets, a finer division of labor, and a more productive economy.

Pastoralist systems are 20 more productive than traditional ranching methods.

At least some of them are using that information to improve their health and live more productively.

Migrants change jobs twice a year on average, as they grease the wheels of European labor markets with their mobility from less to more productive jobs.

They can offer increased productivity, economic benefits, and more diversity in the ecological goods and services provided.

Healthy children attend school more regularly, are better able to learn, and become more productive adults.

Improving carbon productivity requires improving land productivity.

They are recognized as one of the most productive and dynamic ecosystems on Earth.

And the upshot of all of that is that I actually feel a lot happier, healthier, more productive than I ever have.

Research has shown that giving employees more control over their work makes them happier and more productive.

The Productivity of Trust

Beyond that, Mayer s edict makes more sense as a means of cultural change within a business than it does as a way to improve any particular individual s productivity.

Contributing to the emergence of a more productive relationship between the world s most important international organization and its most powerful member would be no small feat.

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

After expanding new uses of resources they end with exhausting the efficiency of those processes, producing gains that are first easier and larger over time then exhaustingly more difficult, as the technology matures.

Worse still, labor has been displaced from more productive tradable activities (in manufacturing) to less productive informal activities (services). In most Latin American countries, structural change has served to reduce rather than promote economic growth.

The Best, Brightest, and Least Productive?

So when I also think about design, I think about trying to rework and re engage the lines on this graph in a more productive way.

In an agricultural society, the difference between the richest and the poorest, the most productive and the least productive, was five to one. Why?

In the modern, more productive parts of the economy, productivity (while typically still low) is much closer to what we observe in the advanced countries.

In supporting the authority of the General Assembly by enabling it to act more speedily and be more productive, we are supporting the very essence of the United Nations.

It would also be a valuable opportunity for all stakeholders to share lessons learned and best practices.

As a result, farm sizes would drop (as land was divided among ever more children), labor productivity would fall, and the poor would become even poorer.

That is why the world s wealthier economies, those with the most productive market systems, also have large public sectors.

We forgot about a mission to make relatively untroubled people happier, more fulfilled, more productive. And genius, high talent, became a dirty word.

The solution is to increase grain yields to at least two tons and in some places to three or more tons per hectare.

The theoretical effect on employment is unambiguously positive, because marginal workers will be more productive as they work longer.

No wonder so many prefer to stay home and work on their own, which may explain why so many developing countries are becoming more urbanized but not more productive.

A larger capital stock would mean thicker markets, a finer division of labor, and a more productive economy. A highly productive society based on a sophisticated division of labor was how you secured the wealth of nations.

Souley Madi is one of the most productive cotton growers in the Badjengo Cameroon, an area where the lush forests of central Africa give way to the semi arid Sahel.

Children were spared not only death but also debilitating infections, enabling them to attend school and lead more productive lives in the future.

The goal is to create competition among communities and among developers of the tools and thus to foster even better tools and more livable, productive communities.

However, for that to occur, oil revenues should be directed towards more productive investments, while economic policies should promote intraregional employment generation and flow of funds.

Alternatively, the firm can invest in skills training and build a more productive workforce with greater loyalty and hence lower turnover costs.

Institutions that have fulfilled their mandate or proved unable to respond effectively to changing demands should be shuttered, and their resources redirected to more productive endeavors.

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.

For them, a sound economy requires a sound production structure.

Biofertilizers, for example, hold great promise for increasing food productivity.

The real impact of both Microsoft and Google is not on their shareholders, or even on the people that they employ directly, but on the millions of people whom they have made more productive.

The idea is that well trained workers will be more productive when they are more directly involved in the decision making process, rather than closely supervised by many layers of management.

Enhancing enterprise productivity and competitiveness (e.g. supply chain management) and Creating new enterprises (e.g. a start up company in software).

In order to achieve more balanced and sustainable GDP growth, China s leaders must implement a set of deep, comprehensive, and long lasting institutional reforms aimed at boosting TFP.

As illustrated by Brazil, which is the largest investor from LAC, a large part of outward FDI has been undertaken for financial rather than production reasons (to avoid taxes and undertake currency transactions).

Today, the long hours of unpaid work that women perform each day searching for firewood and other energy sources rob them of time to engage in more productive activities.