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Turkey’s arable land shrank by nearly a tenth between 1995 and 2010 yet crop productivity has improved significantly thanks to technological advancements, the use of better and more resistant seeds, and farmers’ growing agricultural know-how, a leading ...
May 27, 2012 at 13:45 | Source: Today's Zaman
HAS the pursuit of labor productivity reached its limit? Productivity — the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy — is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything.
May 26, 2012 at 20:42 | Source: New York Times
The recent turmoil in Australian and global stock markets should be a wake-up call to thousands of Australian companies who do not understand what is about to happen to their enterprise. Unless they can first measure productivity and then bring it up to ...
May 27, 2012 at 22:56 | Source: Business Spectator
EDMONTON, May 22, 2012 /CNW/ - Productivity Alberta officially opens the doors to a new office in downtown Edmonton with a grand opening celebration and open house. The event takes place Friday, May 25, from 1.30 to 4.30pm (formal program from 2.00 to 2 ...
May 22, 2012 at 18:23 | Source: CNW Group
Organizations often implement new picking techniques, new order picking equipment or new processes in an attempt to gain productivity in their operations. While these endeavors are successful and lead to big jumps in productivity, there are ways to achieve ...
May 27, 2012 at 03:15 | Source: ThomasNet Industrial News Room
Mitt Romney took his Democratic rival to task Thursday, saying a remark from President Barack Obama's stump speech revealed a fundamental misunderstanding of the term "productivity." President Barack Obama made the quip at a campaign event in Denver, where ...
May 24, 2012 at 13:13 | Source: KCRA.com
Arable land is simply not that big a deal. Over the past few years, both companies and investors have made a lot of noise about the limited availability of new arable land -- implying that we need more farmland to meet future food demand. In my previous ...
May 13, 2012 at 01:16 | Source: Seekingalpha.com
A third of Australian workers waste almost a quarter of their day at work, a survey shows. The Ernst & Young Australian Productivity Pulse survey found the lack of productivity costs businesses more than $41 billion each year in wages alone. The survey of ...
May 27, 2012 at 13:45 | Source: The Canberra Times
In this global economy with virtual meetings, social networking, and hyper-competitiveness, it is encouraging to see a large corporation choosing to embrace mindfulness. This mindfulness training is seen as a means to increase productivity as ...
May 23, 2012 at 23:58 | Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer
I know we are all terribly busy being down in the dumps but let us, for a moment, lift our eyes to the horizon. For if we are, as I wrote last week, a nation of teenagers throwing a collective temper tantrum despite, or perhaps because of, our good ...
May 24, 2012 at 14:17 | Source: Sydney Morning Herald