productivity
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This shift over the last decade "may have contributed to weak productivity growth", which has slowed since the financial crisis and weakened again after the pandemic, the Resolution Foundation found.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
These developments come amid a public backlash against data centres and questions about how much value AI can add to worker productivity.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Companies are also finding ways to do more with less thanks to AI and other technologies, putting the U.S. on the cusp of what some economists predict will be an extended phase of rising productivity.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Gomez told AFP in June that Europe risks "total technological irrelevance" if it fails to develop sovereign capabilities, warning that without home-built technology, everything from defense to productivity will be partly controlled by foreigners.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
That combination of high rainfall and summer rains gives Japan the highest plant productivity of any nation in the temperate zones.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
That, in turn, allowed firms to meet a given level of demand by using more workers less intensively—at lower productivities.
From Economist ● Feb. 17, 2014
Over the long run, technology sets potential productivities, which govern the wages workers can earn.
From Economist ● Jan. 22, 2014
For instance, Japanese steel, metal, car, car parts, camera, and consumer electronic companies compete fiercely and have higher productivities than their U.S. counterparts.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Of course, there are also the famous differences between the productivities of the economies of whole countries, such as Japan, the United States, France, and Germany.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
For expository reasons we can take social subsistence and productivities as purely constant.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Thomas Colignatus
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