Overall productivity in the economy is not helped much when firms become more productive by shedding workers, who end up in informal activities characterized by substantially lower productivity.

American productivity is among the highest in the world.

The country requires human and physical capital to raise productivity and achieve sustained growth.

Usually, low interest rates lead firms to borrow more to invest more, and greater indebtedness is matched by more productive assets.

This could happen only if European companies cut costs and increase productivity.

Georgia s emphasis on labor intensive crops such as tea and grapes kept the rural work force at an unsatisfactory level of productivity.

Small firms can engage in collective action, aided by local authorities, to boost productivity and market access.

In this vision of how corporations work, the company that isn't globally dominant is an also ran.

During this period, Apple completed numerous acquisitions to create a portfolio of digital production software for both professionals and consumers.

Unlike in India, where the private corporate sector is the most dynamic sector, in China state controlled companies are some of the globally more successful.

Nor have Spain s labor market reforms worked as expected.

In 2004, the performance of UNCDF continued to be affected by the low level of contributions to its core resources.

Paying for Productivity

Production Opportunities

The world s corporate sector also has a significant role to play in sustainable development.

In the corporate sector, women at the top, C level jobs, board seats tops out at 15, 16 percent.

At a business level, you might look at the well being of your employees, which we know is really linked to creativity, which is linked to innovation, and we're going to need a lot of innovation to deal with those environmental issues.

Big business brought major productivity improvements, but it also increased the power of private companies to act in ways that were injurious to the broader marketplace and to society.

Following the liberalization of OFDI policy, these companies expanded their foreign production activities through reinvestment earnings. The share of re invested earnings emerged as the most important component of OFDI flows, accounting for about 45 per cent 50 per cent of the total flows during the

(d) Strengthened partnerships with stakeholders to help mobilize additional resources, increase efficiency and cost effectiveness and avoid overlap

The companies plan to add hundreds of thousands of jobs worldwide this year alone.

First, enterprises constrained by size and resources should not diversify production activities into a variety of products internationally.

But, over the same period, annual GDP growth has averaged a modest 3.5 , and productivity growth has slipped into negative territory.

It's a truism that your standard of living rises faster than productivity, rises faster than output per hour, if hours per person increased.

The Coming Productivity Revolution

Today s Productivity Paradox

Improving farm productivity.

Productive Options

(b) Increasing productivity

C. Improving productivity

We can get productivity up.

And here's productivity.

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The rise in the amount of time spent commuting is a drag on both national productivity and the quality of life in modern cities.

The WFP has made significant investments in the agricultural sector in order to strengthen food security among impoverished farmers and to improve agricultural productivity and incomes.

Productivity growth in agriculture can help to reduce the cost of food, which in turn will raise the purchasing power and well being of the poor.

Today, productivity is at an all time high, and despite the Great Recession, it grew faster in the 2000s than it did in the 1990s, the roaring 1990s, and that was faster than the '70s or '80s.

This function has evolved over time and the Working Party currently focuses on the development of internationally comparable quantitative analysis in three key areas productivity, firm performance, and globalization.

Accordingly, the development of supply chains may not only benefit the foreign affiliates but also increase the productive and export capacity of host countries.

America, China, and the Productivity Paradox

(a) Production and production capacity

Raising agricultural productivity.

Blissful productivity. I love it.

Big companies. Big companies.

Excessive regulation that protects incumbent firms and other vested interests undermines market competitiveness and limits prospects for improved productivity and efficiency.