So I had another unproductive day.

Such an uncontrolled, unproductive process is known as ghost fishing .

Wealth is ripped away from people who shouldn't be called unproductive.

And if we do that, we're going to stop seeing cities as big, metropolitan, unproductive blobs, like this.

In consequence, it may be said that this activity, categorized as inactive and unproductive, is almost exclusively the province of women.

Persons that deal with agriculture and cattle herding within the framework of productive and reproductive ( unproductive ) work are included into the active rural population.

Too often, the international community devoted its energies to questioning and defending agreed international norms and the Committee spent too much time on unproductive deliberations.

On the other hand, little land is available for housing and agriculture, which makes people use unproductive and or inappropriate hillsides for agricultural production and housing damaging the environment even further.

That ocean of sources of information makes it very time consuming and unproductive for an average African user (institutional or individual expert) to subscribe to or otherwise use all of them.

The work undertaken in the secretariat on the list of mitigation projects proposed for financing in accordance with Article 12.4 of the Convention has been unproductive due to the nature and the substance of the list.

Yes, there are plenty of world class firms in emerging markets, and the expansion of the middle class is unmistakable. But only a tiny share of these economies labor is employed in productive enterprises, while informal, unproductive firms absorb the rest.

My own efforts to advance the cause of UN reform when I was Australia s foreign minister were about as quixotic and unproductive as anything I have ever tried to do. Overhauling Secretariat structures and processes to reduce duplication, waste, and irrelevance?

Thanks to them, despite the blighted economy of the  lost decade, Japanese income is still higher than it is in Europe. Moreover, unemployment is low compared to the Western world, because the unproductive distribution sector absorbs young people who cannot find better jobs.

Thanks to them, despite the blighted economy of the lost decade, Japanese income is still higher than it is in Europe. Moreover, unemployment is low compared to the Western world, because the unproductive distribution sector absorbs young people who cannot find better jobs.

For China, the AIIB and Silk Road projects offer alternatives to unproductive domestic investment. Laying the foundations for increased trade among China, South Asia, and emerging Central Asia represents a better outlet for the Chinese construction sector than building more ghost towns at home.

But fiscal policies often targeted unproductive projects, such as rural infrastructure construction, and weaknesses in the banking system dampened the effectiveness of monetary stimulus. As a result, the economy grew by just 1.1 , on average, in the 1990s, far below the 4.5 of the 1980s.

Unproductive measures, such as public sector wage increases, will have the immediate effect of crowding out further the private sector. Next year, salaries for federal employees in the UAE will rise by 30 100 , while their Qatari counterparts wages will rise by 60 120 .

Despite some recent diversification, investment flows have been heavily tilted to construction of oil and gas pipelines and other large international projects. Moreover, military expenditure has increased from 1 to 7 of GDP since 2003, drawing resources away from human development into unproductive investment.

Whatever the definition, what has concerned many economists and gained policymakers attention is that the size distribution of firms in developing countries has a long tail. Compared to developed countries, an unusually large number of small, unproductive firms coexist with a small number of large, productive firms.

There is also a disturbing implication in the Porter Rivkin survey that workers themselves, along with America s schools, are to blame for wage stagnation If only workers were not so poor in math and science, so ill equipped for the modern world, and so unproductive, they would earn higher incomes.

The Fed is purposefully and insidiously distorting the incentive system specifically, signals provided by the price of money resulting in mal investment (and, when public debt is monetized, inflation). This can continue for a time, rewarding unproductive investments and aspiring oligarch speculators who presume that the Fed has eliminated risk.

First, countries with a diminishing stake retain disproportionate power. Second, global decision making now involves four times as many countries as it did in the immediate post war era, not to mention a plethora of non governmental organizations and civil society groups, making for a messy and often unproductive process.

O our Lord! surely I have settled a part of my offspring in a valley unproductive of fruit near Thy Sacred House, our Lord! that they may keep up prayer therefore make the hearts of some people yearn towards them and provide them with fruits haply they may be grateful

O our Lord! surely I have settled a part of my offspring in a valley unproductive of fruit near Thy Sacred House, our Lord! that they may keep up prayer therefore make the hearts of some people yearn towards them and provide them with fruits haply they may be grateful

Today, Rand s fictional world has seemingly become a reality endless bailouts and economic stimulus for the unproductive at the expense of the most productive, and calls for additional taxation on capital investment. The shrug of Rand s heroic entrepreneurs is to be found today within the tangled ciphers of corporate and government balance sheets.

It is of course vital in such situations that we identify the best, or at least the most feasible, way forward predictability provides a foundation for cost benefit analysis and strategic thinking. The problem arises when our yearning for certainty overwhelms rational thinking, taking our ideas and actions in an unproductive or even dangerous direction.

Indeed the only serious risk from the Doha round s failure is that rich countries would take their own rhetoric seriously and react in unproductive ways that prove self fulfilling. The US, in particular, could intensify its pursuit of bilateral deals, by which it is able to impose increasingly inappropriate policy priorities on smaller nations.

In this fundamental narrative, the advanced countries pre crisis GDP was unsustainable, bolstered by borrowing and unproductive make work jobs. More borrowed growth the Keynesian formula may create the illusion of normalcy, and may be useful in the immediate aftermath of a deep crisis to calm a panic, but it is no solution to a fundamental growth problem.

The result is that Feldstein s contribution to solving our economic difficulties is, at best, unproductive. Though he presumably hopes that his commentary will increase the likelihood that his preferred policies are adopted, the more likely real world effect will be to diminish support for existing policies without marshaling support for a coalition that can implement effective replacements.

If the small, unproductive firms closed down and the larger, more productive firms hired their workers, total output and well being would rise. This should happen automatically through the invisible hand of competition, because the more productive firms should be able to deliver a better product at a lower price, while luring workers with higher wages.

Coping with the emerging social and economic burdens associated with poor health not least those stemming from aging populations in many countries requires a new approach to replace the unbalanced, unproductive model that currently prevails. It is time to exchange the gender norms that are undermining men s health for a social, cultural, and commercial emphasis on healthier lifestyles for everyone.

NEW DELHI Syria s agony has generated a variety of unproductive responses verbal condemnation of the excesses of President Bashar al Assad s regime disagreements about the wisdom of armed intervention and all around confusion about the possibility of finding a viable long term solution. Worse, in this sorry state of affairs, the world may be getting a glimpse of a very ugly future.

In Germany, for example, where 20 of the population is older than 65, the number of working age adults will shrink from about 50 million today to as few as 34 million by 2060. Among emerging markets, rapidly rising life expectancy and plunging fertility are likely to double the share of China s over 60 population by 2050 adding roughly a half billion people who require support in their unproductive years.

Ironically, the British government, while no doubt just trying to be hospitable to foreign investors by laying out a red carpet, is helping to set a trap for Chinese financial institutions and the broader Chinese economy. By encouraging China to build global financial institutions with light regulation, the United Kingdom is not just inviting irresponsible behavior it could help to pull an entire economy toward ultimately unproductive and even self destructive activities.

Australia s new foreign minister, Julie Bishop, has talked, as foreign ministers often do, of the need to avoid unproductive megaphone diplomacy and to engage, not enrage her counterparts. But, it seems that no robust critique was delivered when she met privately with Hun Sen in Phnom Penh on February 22 even though Australia s high standing in Cambodia (not least owing to its historical role in the peace process) means that its voice certainly would have been listened to.