At the same time, temperature increases associated with man-made climate change are expected to erode the productivity of crops steadily, with parts of southern Africa seen as particularly vulnerable.
Depression is a leading cause of morbidity worldwide [ 20] and its presence may significantly erode the productivity of a society [ 21].
The state of America's health care crisis, coupled with current demographic changes, threaten to not only exacerbate the crisis, but further erode worker productivity as well.
Investment in machines and high-technology plants abroad erodes the productivity edge that American workers hold over workers in China or Brazil.
That in itself is bad but the larger problem is that a prolonged recession could lead to chronic unemployment, decimate our productivity, erode our market share and competitive edge in global markets, push businesses into bankruptcy, and cause investors to withdraw their money from the U.S. and put it elsewhere.
A mix of low productivity and high wages is eroding competitiveness: whereas productivity rose by a fifth in America and a tenth in Britain in the decade to 2010, in Italy it fell by 5%.
It will erode the health, creativity, productivity and ultimately the profitability of our country.
They increase health expenditure, cause attrition of future labour and productivity, and erode investments in human and physical capital formation [ 32].
Occasional events that affect large geographic areas, as well as periodic bottlenecks associated with cycles of poor marine and/or freshwater productivity, can erode existing diversity that has built up over decades, centuries, or millennia, thus resetting the evolutionary clock.
