Investment still lags behind depreciation, so the country's productive base is shrinking.

About the direct economic impact: The nation's productive base has not been seriously damaged.

Some economists argue that the United States should take advantage of this foreign capital to improve America's productive base.

The second concern has been that sluggish investment has added insufficiently to the productive base.

By the mid-1970s stipulated military needs could only be financed by cutting investment in the productive base as a whole.

They are the productive base of our economy.

Newly issued stock would be best because the company would probably use the capital to expand its - and the nation's - productive base.

The Bhutanese Government has made some progress in expanding the nation's productive base and improving social welfare.

Nonetheless, frontline military forces with a floundering productive base cannot be sustained.

Development expenditure was, however, to increase under the plan, in order to diversify and strengthen the productive base of the economy.