Thus, a 10 increase in working time is the same as if the economy s stock of productive capital were increased by 10 .

10. Support for women s reproductive role to reduce gender inequity

Mercantilists, by contrast, emphasize the productive side of the economy.

Second, they need to use their workforces efficiently, which requires modern labor legislation that encourages employment of women, the young, and senior citizens.

Indeed, agriculture remains the primary productive sector in the world s poorest countries, employing 65 of the working population and, on average, contributing more than 25 to GDP.

Owners of private capital that could be allocated to productive investment will remain hesitant.

To reclaim its promise, India must foster a new generation of productivity growth. The time for action is now.

To reclaim its promise, India must foster a new generation of productivity growth.

General description Economy wide productivity performance is crucial if developing countries' reform programmes are to be sustainable.

The problem, advocates of this view claim, is a shortage of productive supply rather than a shortage of aggregate demand.

Rabello de Castro argues that the country lacks an institutional model or a productive order that comes to terms with fast growth.

In a time of crisis, countries in which luxury goods play their selective role effectively are the safest bets for productive investment.

It is here that the subsistence economy predominates where women play a critical role with their productive as well as their socially reproductive roles devoting most of their working lives balancing their time between meeting family as well as community needs and cultural obligations.

Investment in equipment the key to strengthening productive capital in the tradable goods sector has generally suffered even more.

But, too often in Africa s history, money that should have financed productive investment has been looted or squandered.

Successful case studies are sought which bring the already degraded land back into productive use for creating sustainable livelihoods.

On 1 January 2006, COPRA will become the production system for the processing of trade data at the Statistics Division and OECD.

These inferior substitutes often imply exorbitant costs for borrowers and financing that is usually too short term for productive investment activity.

Finally, while assets nowadays are much more liquid, this has not boosted long term productive investment.

UNIDO's services under this service module cover the fields of rural energy for productive use and energy efficiency, as well as climate change.

The situation, far from being merely the result of present circumstances, clearly reveals the extreme fragility of our system of production and, furthermore, the precariousness of the situation and the living conditions of the people of the Niger.

In this context, the provision of affordable energy for productive use and income generation as well as the provision of safe water for both human and commercial consumption are essential elements.

CAMBRIDGE One does not have to spend much time in developing countries to observe how their economies are a mish mash, combining the productive with the unproductive, the First World with the Third.

The revamped growth compact would more effectively allocate European resources and increase the flexibility of permanent transfers from rich to poor countries provided that the money is used for productive investment.

The arms for land program that the Salvadoran government pursued was the main venue for productive reintegration, providing beneficiaries with a viable livelihood and a stake, however tiny, in the country s wealth.

Meanwhile, net savings in developing economies are increasing, and low yields in developed economies are providing an incentive for investors to channel more resources to productive investment in these countries.

Attainment of the MDGs would largely hinge on how the productive sector was harnessed to enable it to generate the resources necessary to achieve the goals in question.

Two kinds of institutions in particular need shoring up conflict management institutions to enhance economies resilience to external shocks, and institutions that promote productive diversification.

For them, a sound economy requires a sound production structure. And consumption needs to be underpinned by high employment at adequate wages.

In this context, productivity growth whether through technical progress, better allocation of resources, or productive investment is as important a variable for the southern economies as wage restraint is.

Given this, China s continued economic success depends on reducing state ownership of productive capital, facilitating market innovation and growth, and investing in human capital, such as through education, health care, and social welfare.

The issue was an important one, considering that the key dimensions of development plans, from trade to many aspects of the productive sector, were covered almost exclusively by agencies that did not have offices in the field.

But since it is the very nature of a game to have no object except amusement, that is, what distinguishes games from productive activity, it is quite impossible to say that any of a game's arbitrary rules is essential.

What has America done with this opportunity arguably the lowest cost funding in the history of humankind? Not much, in terms of productive investment, strengthening education, or maintaining essential infrastructure.

A similar adjustment within the eurozone, assuming similar productivity performance, would require wages in the troubled peripheral countries to rise more slowly than in Germany for a number of years, thus restoring their competitiveness.

When, despite an improved macroeconomic environment and progress towards more open policies, growth impulses remain weak or lethargic, the national development strategy and productive sector policies assume particular importance.

Nobody cares about public service or culture, intellectualism, political programmes and a coherent productive economy and that all that we are moving towards is a transitional period towards the supremacy of money and the market on all decisions.

The development model that China is facilitating, which combines productive investment and trade with concessional loans and aid, is helping to break the cycle of under development in Africa a goal that Western led development strategies have failed to achieve.

Food Security This program involves capacity building for ethno development agents and implementation of actions directed to the development of productive infrastructure (flour mills, agricultural tools, fishing materials, artisan work, irrigation or technical assistance for agriculture).

Given that luxury goods provide individuals with a competitive advantage, higher luxury goods sales could indicate a brighter economic future for a country.

But, too often in Africa s history, money that should have financed productive investment has been looted or squandered. The challenge now is to prevent the continent s sad history of exploitation from repeating itself during the coming era of massive resource extraction.

Employers are responsible for security in work, the appropriateness of the tools for work and teaching each employee about work conditions.

Employment equity and workplace diversity

Freedom of work and right to employment under equal conditions

Under the Employment Insurance Act, the Canada Employment Insurance Commission has established Employment Benefits and Support Measures (EBSM) that provide active measures designed to assist unemployed Canadians return to work.