Chronic diseases also raise the question of patients' reduced productive capacity over a long period – perhaps a life-time.
Former President Hugo CHAVEZ's efforts to increase the government's control of the economy by nationalizing firms in the agribusiness, financial, construction, oil, and steel sectors hurt the private investment environment, reduced productive capacity, and slowed non-petroleum exports.
Thus, the internally oriented business, used to reducing productive capacity in bad times to make immediate profit gains, may try to make equally drastic cutbacks in the relationship parts of its business, thereby nipping relationships in the bud.
Pollution and high demand for water have reduced the productive capacity of farms in the Gaza Strip.
Deficits would indirectly be making us poorer if they were either leading to big trade deficits, increasing our overseas borrowing, or crowding out investment, reducing future productive capacity.
"Because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy," Mr. Bernanke told a meeting of business economists in Virginia.
The resulting variety in implementation strategies improves health outcomes, but may reduce productive efficiency.
It also underlines the important linkage between improvement in maternal health and the development process, as poor maternal health may affect child health negatively, reduce women's productive capacity, lower participation in economic activities, and sabotage the poverty alleviation programme [8].
But faced with a persistently weak economy, industry has been reducing, not increasing, its productive capacity.
Given the new machinery and four production staff, full productive capacity has been carefully measured.
The indirect cost estimate of $69 billion for 2012 includes increased absenteeism ($5 billion) and reduced productivity while at work ($20.8 billion) for the employed population, reduced productivity for those not in the labor force ($2.7 billion), unemployment as a result of disease-related disability ($21.6 billion), and lost productive capacity due to early mortality ($18.5 billion).
