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UN Sustainable Development Goals

GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Description

Productivity is the efficiency of production of goods or services expressed by some measure. Measurements of productivity are often expressed as a ratio of an aggregate output to a single input or an aggregate input used in a production process, i.e. output per unit of input, typically over a specific period of time. The most common example is the (aggregate) labour productivity measure, one example of which is GDP per worker. There are many different definitions of productivity and the choice among them depends on the purpose of the productivity measurement and data availability. The key source of difference between various productivity measures is also usually related to how the outputs and the inputs are aggregated to obtain such a ratio-type measure of productivity.

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Organizations relating to Productivity

Asian Productivity Organization / Tokyo, Japan / Est. 1961
Global Alliance for Energy Productivity / Washington DC, USA / Est. 2015
Proyectos de Innovación IBEROEKA / Madrid, Spain / Est. 1991
Liaison Committee for National Productivity Centres of the EEC Member Countries
Inter-American Productivity Association
Partnership for Productivity International / Est. 1969
European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis / Est. 1989
Competitiveness Research Network / Halle (Saale), Germany / Est. 2012
Institute for Productive Learning in Europe / Berlin, Germany / Est. 1989
Once Acre Fund / Est. 2006
International Society of Transdisciplinary Engineering / Delft, Netherlands / Est. 1984
European Association of National Productivity Centres / Eschborn, Germany / Est. 1966
Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference
World Confederation of Productivity Science / Montréal QC, Canada / Est. 1969
World Association for Cooperative Education / Lowell MA, USA / Est. 1983
Joint Programming Initiative on Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans / Brussels, Belgium / Est. 2017
International Association for the Distributive Trade / Brussels, Belgium / Est. 1952
International Methods Time-Measurement Directorate / Varese, Italy / Est. 1957
Pan-African Productivity Association / Midrand, South Africa / Est. 1992
International Society for Performance Improvement / Argyle TX, USA / Est. 1962
International Olive Council / Madrid, Spain / Est. 1959
Productivity Research Network
Green Without Borders / Kakamega, Kenya / Est. 2015
Intergovernmental Group on Meat and Dairy Products / Est. 1970

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World Problems relating to Productivity

From the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

Soil degradation
Unsustainable short-term improvements in agricultural productivity
Ageing of world population
Counter-productive price supports and subsidies
Unproductive dependents
Declining agricultural land
Private ownership
Unproductive import substitution
Low productivity of agricultural workers
Unsustainable cultivation of long-lifed trees
Non-productive capitalist elites
Declining economic productivity
Waste of human resources
Counter-productive agricultural subsidies
Underuse of high productivity methods of agricultural management
Socio-economically inactive population
Waste of non-renewable resources
Waste of resources
Non-productive use of cattle and livestock
Ineffective means for goods supply and distribution
Unemployed older people
Unproductivity of capitalist systems
Unproductive subsistence agriculture

Action Strategies relating to Productivity

From the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

Enhancing vocational training capacity
Conserving global marine biological diversity
Increasing productivity of material resources
Promoting women's economic self-reliance
Improving enterprise performance
Strengthening comprehensive health care for women
Achieving cleaner production
Restoring sustainable productivity in severely desertified drylands
Assessing impact of environmental training programmes on productivity, health, safety and environment
Creating productive employment relating to the environment
Monitoring livestock productivity
Maximizing waste reuse
Assessing productivity of high and low-resource agriculture
Ensuring farm animal productivity
Encouraging productive skills development through promotion of transnational corporate activity
Improving animal production
Developing citizen economic productivity
Developing youth vocational skills
Utilizing scientific productive methods
Assuring full catch utilization
Implementing productive uses
Honouring business cooperatives
Coordinating supply of productive inputs
Refining capabilities for natural resource productivity
Developing technologies

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