"spur productivity" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to talk about actions that encourage people or organizations to be more efficient and productive in their work. For example, "The introduction of a bonus scheme is intended to spur productivity in the accounting department."
This underscores the need to accelerate structural reforms, including tax and expenditure policies that reinforce incentives to work and invest, and spur productivity growth," it added.
This could partly explain why window views of landscapes, research shows, can speed patient recovery in hospitals, aid learning in classrooms and spur productivity in the workplace.
To minimise the risk that they fall into a Japanese-style morass of high public debt and slow growth, the rich world's economies must spur productivity, encourage investment and foster competition.
Rather than spur productivity-enhancing investments, it created opportunities for tax shelters – investments driven solely by the potential for tax savings without regard to economic merit.
That spurs productivity and company formation.
Foreign competition spurs productivity growth at home.
In a Kaldorian virtuous cycle, G.D.P. growth spurs productivity growth, which, in turn, spurs G.D.P. growth.
Trade is good for the economy, providing cheap imports and markets for exports, spurring productivity and raising living standards.
(They also show him as a struggling writer, obsessed, as writers are, with schemes for overcoming lethargy and spurring productivity).
So, bringing down the deficit, reducing capital costs, raising investment, spurring productivity growth, was the right and natural central strategy for spurring growth.
More important, the same IT that spurred productivity also increased competition more widely across industries, from airlines and banking to insurance and cars, squeezing prices and profits.
