Basic needs theory does not focus on investing in economically productive activities.

To own many and noble beasts, whether they were economically productive or not, was ever the mark of respectability.

I'd like to see economically productive course offered for free or at a much lower price than courses with no real vocational value.

The old, the poor and the sick are not economically productive.

Older people will need to remain active, healthy and economically productive, especially in poor nations with no social safety net.

After all, the lives we save may be economically productive ones.

Liberals tend to live in more economically productive states than conservatives.

The labor force is about 24,000 people strong, or 63% of economically productive people age 15 to 64 years old.

When Jews were treated well, their society was socially, politically and economically productive.

However, the lower class women were expected to be economically productive in order to help their husbands make ends meet.