Economists
and politicians walk concerned because the productivity of the richest
countries doesn't grow to the rhythm that would should. However, the economist
and journalist of Reuters, Edward Fairies, assures that the productivity to day
of today has almost lost all its sense as economic indicator. To worry to
improve the productivity could be counteractive and to be a 'intensifier' of
the unemployment and the underemployment that it is it that exactly is passing
this and the creation of poor workers.
The term
productivity is the real GDP of one year divided among every hour worked in
that same year. The numbers show that this fact is stagnating, from 1990, in
that year, the OECD published that the productivity grew more than 2% in Japan,
France, United Kingdom and Italy. In USA the growth was of 1,3%. However
between 2009 and 2014 the productivity has passed to grow in the first five
countries to 1,1%, while in USA 0,9% increases ".
But this is
more complicated, because the GDP is the magic figure of the politics of a
country when the GDP goes up the government however this is congratulated it is
no longer reflective of the reality admitted up to now today the GDP (the
wealth generated by a country) it has changed its calculation factors for that
reason today the descent of the productivity he/she doesn't belong together
with a descent of the technological process but just the opposite to but
technology more GDP and however more basic unemployment, this makes that the
capital factor is less effective and that the standards of life have gotten
complicated seriously. This says stagnation it is the test that the
productivity like economic indicator no longer represents the
reality."
And it is
that the productivity like indicator made sense when the factor work (human
employees) they were the most important link in the productive process in the
factories or the field and therefore the biggest revenues of wealth received
them the state of the used manpower. The productivity grew as the workers went
being substituted or accompanied by machinery and technology and however the
capital revenues for non-alone product didn't descend but rather he rose.
Now, the
productivity doesn't grow with the help of making more goods with less, but
through improving the goods that take place, making you improve them, more
useful and sometimes almost totally different. These qualitative changes are
very different the quantitative changes that were made before. The changes in
the quality of the goods you cannot measure, however if one can already do with
clarity that to more productivity more I stop, and this in the very
industrialized countries is not noticed so much because the technicality of the
industry that makes it is that indeed he makes more productive the work this it
becomes better quicker and with the same employees even more because its
competition in prices makes that the sales of the increase their products.
However in
the countries des industrializes the makes go up technicality the GDP because
he takes place more thanks to the technicality with less manpower but it
continues taking place basically the same thing this the governments assume it
like it is the case of Spain and he puts on the medal that the Spanish GDP
ascends more than German and that any other one except the Irishman. The
curious of the case is that Europe congratulates him and it puts it as example
it is incredible undoubtedly the GDP also ascends here now in Spain and the
productivity we make the same thing but paying the workers and all the public
and private employees a stocking of 30% less than four years ago
The problem
is that this cannot last much more because the population's aging like a
fundamental factor and the every time the Spanish workers' smaller purchasing
power goes on the way to causing the stagnation of the productivity without
fail. When the population was young and her rents were also 30% superior to the
current ones I was necessary to produce the biggest number of goods and
possible services with the few resources that she has always made Gallic Spain.
Now that the population has begun to grow in a slower way, you is not necessary
that the production of goods increases too much. And this is what is passing
the big Spanish companies they will work outside of Spain.
The
immediate future is guided to end in political of investment in capital and the
investigation. What can will foment the elimination of employments while the
GDP stays stagnated but it is not real it will be stagnated with the formula of
current calculation, but the reality will be that the GDP says economic it will
ascend, but the general GDP including the manpower stagnated or it even
lowered. The cuttings of factor work for the technicality will increase the
productivity, but they will also because of an increase of the unemployment and
of the underemployment. This is without a doubt the biggest problem in the
underdeveloped economies and that it also affected in smaller measure to those
developed.
But as
always these warnings so clear nobody keeps them in mind because what today
counts is the politics pure and hard today the governments they embrace it the
whole governability the productivity the investigation and development frankly
would not be better than the politicians you limits to legislate and to govern,
that that the specialists: Engineers, economists, scientists and doctors,
educators, etc. tells Them that it is necessary to make for not losing the
train of the countries of the world. But please that they don't invent them
that sink us in the deepest misery and social and national inability.
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