And because these dependants make a claim on a country's income without adding to it, they also depress savings, thereby slowing the accumulation of capital and the growth of productivity.

并且，这些受赡养者对国家的收入只减不增，他们同样抑制消费，因此资本聚集和生产力增长的速度就放缓了。

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Among the key factors behind this growth were increased agricultural productivity and an expansion of trade.

这种增长背后的关键因素是农业生产率的提高和贸易的扩大。

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One is that traditional measures fail to reflect service-sector productivity growth because it has been concentrated in improved quality of services.

一是传统的衡量方法未能反映服务业生产率的增长，因为它集中在服务质量的提高上。

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But because of the numbers of employee deaths and the media attention they have attracted, critics say France Telecom's problems have emerged as a warning story about the downsides of valuing productivity and growth over employee well being.

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Indeed,volatile food prices, population growth, low agricultural productivity and the potentially devastating effects of climate change make it a particularly daunting challenge. The IFAD president says over the past 30 years, agricultural productivity in developing countries has been stagnant or in decline. He blames it on years of under-investment.

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And today's government report on productivity and costs showed that unit labor costs grew 4.2% from the first quarter, above the consensus of 3.8% and much faster than the growth rate of productivity, which increased 1.1%, way below the 4.3% pace of last quarter.

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And today's report on productivity and expenses showed that unit labor costs grew 4.2% from the first quarter, above the consensus of 3.8%--nearly four times the growth rate of productivity.

FORBES: Rates On Hold

While, as we know, a lot of the productivity growth of the 1990s was actually the computer industry itself becoming more efficient at its own manufacturing, the current boom is from people working out what to actually do with the bright shiny boxes.

FORBES: It's The Productivity, Stupid