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Three theories for what's causing the global productivity slowdown

  • Written by Roy Green, Dean of UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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There is a wide recognition by economists and policy-makers that “the large differences in income per capita observed across countries mostly reflect differences in labour productivity”.

Further, “productivity is expected to be the main driver of...

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