When the world's productive capacities exceed the buying power of the world's consumers, every government wants to increase exports and discourage imports.
IHS CERA, which monitors oil and gas fields around the world, projects that productive capacity for liquid fuels could rise to 112 million barrels a day in 2030 (including 2.75 million barrels in biofuels), from 92.6 million barrels a day this year.
During World War I the productive capacity of the automotive industry first demonstrated its military value.
According to The Economist's Intelligence Unit, the United States is the most "food secure" country in the world in terms of productive capacity, technology and other factors.
MR. BIVENS -- Globalization is good at increasing the productive capacity of the world, but to make sure there are enough jobs for everybody, you need demand to keep pace with that increase in supply.
They should also realize that most changes in the productive capacity of the world since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution can be attributed to technological improvements in our capital assets, and a relatively diminishing proportion to human labor.
As a result, most changes in the productive capacity of the world since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution can be attributed to technological improvements in our capital assets, and a relatively diminishing proportion to human labor.
Given the new machinery and four production staff, full productive capacity has been carefully measured.
But the past 15 years of trade liberalization have had less to do with opening markets for U.S. exports than with securing protections for U.S. foreign investment that encourages companies to send productive capacity offshore to send products back to the world's largest consumer market.
In the West Bank, according to the C.I.A. World Factbook, "Israeli closure policies continue to disrupt labor and trade flows, industrial capacity, and basic commerce, eroding the productive capacity" of the economy.
