Mr Begg points out that boosting productivity implies spending more on cities, especially London.
Analysts believe it is aimed at boosting productivity, but there is scepticism about whether it will work.
By boosting productivity, the Internet can lift the economy's safe speed limit before inflation starts to rise.
Better regulation and financial reporting would also help investment capital to find the best opportunities, boosting productivity growth.
The third task is to restore battered morale while simultaneously boosting productivity.
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"The corporate sector in Spain has made tremendous efforts in boosting productivity, " he said, pointing out that this can hit the numbers of people in work.
Reducing labour costs and boosting productivity is all the more important since Portugal is exposed to relatively low-tech areas of activity such as textiles that are vulnerable to competition from developing countries.
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More to the point, if the Fed doesn't print too much money, an increase in labor costs would only result in a squeeze on corporate profits, which management could deal with by boosting productivity.
The prescription for Greece and others is a familiar one: relaxing the rules that govern jobs, wages and land development will allow the best enterprises to grow bigger and the duds to fail, boosting productivity, GDP growth and tax revenues.
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Experts believed that tough, top-down controls would dispense with inefficiencies: Insurance companies would relentlessly cut back payments for hundreds of medical procedures, which would force hospitals, clinics and physicians to get their acts together, thereby boosting productivity and cutting costs. (Managed care's methods are close cousins to what you see in nationalized health care systems.) Because of these anticipated efficiencies, experts figured we would need fewer doctors.
Will the effect be mostly positive, boosting our productivity and the rate of human innovation?
This new product category is helping bring more customers into its stores and boosting store productivity according to one analyst.
Meanwhile firms that were able to meet increased demand by boosting the productivity of their existing workforce no longer can.
Higher wages also benefit businesses by boosting employee productivity, retention and customer satisfaction, and reducing the high costs of employee turnover.
An analagous process is boosting the productivity of Brazil's beef cattle herd.
Although most of these gizmos distract you (and your co-workers) from meeting those deadlines, this rodent could very well assist in boosting your productivity level.
And the squeeze on corporate profits engendered by the Lewis turning point will make it harder for companies to invest in boosting the productivity of today's low-skilled workers.
Whether you are trying to find a misplaced phone or a perfect place to relax while traveling on business, there are plenty of Android apps aimed at boosting your productivity, or alleviating some of the trepidation and lost time that business travel may cause.
Because these types of job cut are based on productivity boosting initiatives companies have taken, they likely reflect a permanent shift upwards in operational efficiency.
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But for most of Mr Howard's nine years in office, productivity-boosting reform has been on the back burner.
Thousands of new apps for these platforms are introduced every day, including productivity-boosting apps that are being adopted by businesses.
Besides, the lull in productivity-boosting reforms was not wholly his fault.
And boosting profit margins in a slow-growing economy means lifting productivity.
As work sponsored by the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research Program has shown quite well, boosting energy efficiency in high-tech industries offers huge economic side benefits in terms of increased reliability and productivity.
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