"The Chinese market can't go from low to high productivity in 18 months, " admits Hanson.
Investors, by contrast, love the new members for their low wages, high productivity and simple taxes.
Jorge Perez of Manpower, an employment-services firm, says disabled people frequently have unusually high productivity.
The economy's bounciness still owes more to cheap labour than to high productivity.
If being centered is so important, how can we ensure we remain in this precious state of high productivity more often?
That is, the important elements that constitute a nation are: being disease free, wealth, high productivity, harmonious living and strong defence.
Also, in the mobile computing category, the market for PCs which realize high productivity is expected to steadily grow, particularly in emerging markets.
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But he notes that whereas Singapore's success rests on high productivity, Panama's growth has come from accumulating capital in the form of infrastructure.
The Cray XC30 supercomputer is made possible in part by Cray's participation in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) High Productivity Computing Systems program.
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The new strawberries are bred by crossing UK and international varieties that contain desirable traits such as being disease resistance, high productivity and temperature tolerance.
"High productivity is not about finding some best practice, " says Nalbantian.
Also boasting high productivity, Bank Internasional Indonesia (No. 245), which has to make the most of its relatively small headcount - 5, 800 - spread among 170 branches.
Software, connectivity and devices enable high productivity for mobile workers.
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High productivity is increasingly valuable in tough economic times.
We are not addressing the high valued added skill gap in the US. So, we are not providing high wage, high productivity, high valued added jobs, especially in the engineering and IT industries.
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In another interesting presentation, Alan Shalloway, CEO of Net Objectives, suggested that the reason for this is that Scrum is essentially a bottom-up approach to work, which is highly effective for generating high productivity at the team level.
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Likewise, low growth that is below trend in an economy with a high trend rate of growth (perhaps because of a fast-growing labour force or high productivity growth) will feel like a recession and will cause unemployment to rise.
Lazear pointedly stated that he expects strong growth due to high productivity and low taxes, adding that "two trends are most important when looking at last year's economic picture and the scene as we move into 2007"--the labor market and export growth.
The optimist in me tells me that with unemployment so high, productivity so high, yes inventory restocking has occurred, but manufacturing is growing again.
Described by 20th-century economist Arthur Lewis, this is the point at which excess labor in low-productivity industries has been fully absorbed into the high-productivity industries.
The rise in productivity and wages is a great boon for workers in high-productivity jobs.
Globally, water is saved if agricultural products are traded from regions with high water productivity to those with low water productivity.
There's also the question of how productive today's high-productivity workers really are.
Incentive plans are used to encourage employees to perform at high levels of productivity.
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It would be difficult, but perhaps possible, to have a six day work week and maintain a high level of productivity.
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Labour costs were getting too high for the productivity of that labour.
From packaging, sales, and marketing to shipping and inventory management, sowing entrepreneurial seeds in Costco soil yields a high level of productivity and effectiveness.
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The islands, lying between the Antarctic and Subtropical Convergences and the seas, have a high level of productivity, biodiversity, wildlife population densities and endemism among birds, plants and invertebrates.
It can be extremely difficult to get things done and maintain a high level of productivity when people (especially decision makers) are out of the office, says Marian Morgan, a productivity coach.
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