Sentence examples for productive activities from inspiring English sources

At FAO, we want to see people actively engaged in productive activities.

Those are billions of dollars that Google, Apple, Microsoft and others won't invest in new products, new jobs, new facilities or other economically productive activities.

The other side of the move into politics is a retreat from more directly productive activities.

Lower national savings means less investment in plant, equipment and other productive activities.

We have been witnessing a vast and accelerating increase in the fragmentation of productive activities.

And more than $4tn of savings are slushing around in western financial institutions refusing to be invested in productive activities.

Further, a tax is efficient to the extent that it does not discourage productive activities or encourage evasion.

Instead, we can expect a richly mixed fledgling city, where residential, businesses, retail services and productive activities all coexist together.

Corruption stifles incentives to work and innovate, undermining property rights and threatening to usurp the returns to productive activities.

Up and down society, people are moving away from commercial, productive activities and toward pleasant, enlightened but less productive ones.

"The substantial resources required to improve security are readily available without hindering more productive activities," James Glassman of J. P. Morgan Securities wrote in a report this week.