In agriculture, creating a global productivity target would help countries focus on a key but neglected area: the efficiency and output of hundreds of millions of small farmers who live in poverty.

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With regards to educational development, the programme has created learning opportunities for socially disadvantaged adults and thus helped to solve the problem of illiteracy, unemployment and limited productivity among this target group.

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Hitting that target will be enormously hard because of a demographic weakness that is harming productivity, earnings and savings.

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The committee expects labour productivity growth to resume slowly, helping to bring inflation back to target in the medium term.

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