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Underproductivity


Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Narrower Problems:
Labour shortage
High labour turnover
Unproductive dependents
Inadequate production capacity
Declining economic productivity
Stigmatization of manual labour
Dependence on external resources
Cost disease of personal services
Non-productive members of society
Non-productive athletic activities
Unequal distribution of fish catches
Socio-economically inactive population
Structural rigidities in labour markets
Underutilization of second-hand equipment
Unequal distribution of livestock production
Unequal distribution of production among countries
Underuse of high productivity methods of agricultural management
Related Problems:
Underdevelopment of countries
Inadequate working conditions
Aggravates:
Lack of funding
Economic inflation
Lack of job satisfaction
Strategies:
Producing
Values:
Counterproductivity
Unproductivity
Problem Type:
C: Cross-sectoral problems
Subject(s):
Productivity
Date of last update
28.04.2000 – 00:00 CEST

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The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a collaboration between UIA and Mankind 2000, started in 1972. It is the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on the problems with which humanity is confronted, as well as the challenges such problems pose to concept formation, values and development strategies.  Problems included are those identified in international periodicals but especially in the documents of some 60,000 international non-profit organizations, profiled in the Yearbook of International Organizations.

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