If there is a very productive centre, it just attracts all the energy to the centre and kills the periphery, and even if they try to do their best to recover, it is hard without investment and transfers".
The great majority of cotton spinning took place in the towns of south Lancashire and north Cheshire, and Manchester was for a time the most productive centre of cotton processing, and later the world's largest marketplace for cotton goods.
The first clue is in the second paragraph of the housing section of the budget, which says, "The cost of housing near the most productive centres of employment has become a barrier to productivity growth.
The evolution of economic life was conditioned by political events; as the productive centres passed into Christian hands, the commercial vigour of the Muslims kept diminishing proportionally.
In short, where are the most productive centres of innovation?The simplest way to measure a region's potential for innovation is to look at the number of patents granted to its residents.
Bolton was a 19th-century boomtown, and at its zenith in 1929 its 216 cotton mills and 26 bleaching and dyeing works made it one of the largest and most productive centres of cotton spinning in the world.
Mourinho reasons that the Premier League is wide open and it would be counter-productive to centre again on his now north-west rival.
The private sector also has a lot to gain from from designing workplaces where employees can be more productive, or shopping centres that encourage loyalty from customers and businesses.
The region's highly productive agriculture is centred on the irrigated plains of the Po River valley, which produce rice, wheat, corn (maize), sugar beets, and fodder crops for beef and dairy cattle.
As productivity is directly proportional to a manufacturing organization's profit, it is always preferred to have highly productive CNC turning centres.
Quite a lot of the extraordinary catch-up growth we observe in emerging markets (and once observed in the development process of now-rich countries) is due to the migration of a large share of the population from low-productivity agricultural lifestyles to much more productive work in urban centres.
