The scars have not entirely healed: eastern Germany's unemployment rate remains nearly double that of the west; productivity and living standards lag.

然而伤疤还没有完全愈合：除了生产力和生活水平两者滞后外，东德的失业率仍然接近西德的两倍。

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Increase developer productivity using enhanced support for standards, emerging technology and a choice of development frameworks that simplify programming models.

使用改进的标准支持、新兴技术和简化编程模型的开发框架提高开发人员的生产力。

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For much of the past two centuries the know-how that determines productivity and living standards has been concentrated in the West.

过去两百年里的大多数时候，决定生产率和生活水平的知识技术聚集在西方世界。

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Libertarians should be skeptical that the government can make workers better off by setting minmum productivity standards.

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Productivity growth over the past two years has been at very low levels by historical standards even though productivity normally rises at a decent pace during expansions.

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In turn, as workers move into more productive areas, this gives a boost to overall productivity and hence living standards.

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