A wise counsellor would have said to the Kaiser, "Keep doing what we're doing, and, given the productivity and discipline of our people, we'll be the major power in Europe by default".
Given the productivity gains implicit in lean practices, G.E. envisions a growing hourly work force at Appliance Park, but one that comes nowhere near its size in the 1970s.
It seems reasonable to argue that the distributional shift needed to occur, given the actual productivity performance.
Given the low productivity of workers in third-world countries, their nations' lack of infrastructure and general lag in development, to insist that such workers be paid what Americans would regard as a living wage is to insist that they price themselves out of their jobs.
That is, farmgate prices are usually low such that significant gains can be made if sufficient quantities are put out for sale, and given the low productivity of smallholders, there is no doubt that such gains from farmgate would continue to elude them.
Both empirical and theoretical benchmarks indicate that output growth should have been much faster than it was, particularly given the very rapid productivity growth that occurred.
If the renminbi appreciated substantially relative to the dollar, as economists believe it eventually must given the much higher productivity growth in China relative to the U.S., China would certainly take a capital loss.
Meeting present and future food needs, ensuring environmental integrity and providing income and employment in the fishery sector is a balancing act given the finite productive capacity of resources and a complex challenge given the uncertainty over this productivity.
For biomolecule production by wild-type B. subtilis, due to the different intracellular production patterns, no consensus exists on the FBO strategy that gives the maximum productivity, whereas for r-protein production appropriate feeding strategies vary depending on the promoter used.
However, the mechanical skin and the geometrical skin are fundamental parameters to estimate the well potential in the case of injection testing, given that the productivity index cannot be determined based on rate and pressure measurements as in conventional tests.
As of late, more focus has been given to the productivity and to the skill mix of the labour workforce as well.
