"The World Bank has created an extraordinary book on productivity, covering a large group of countries and using a wide variety of data sources. There is an emphasis on emerging and developing ...

But data from the OECD, a club of rich countries, tell a more positive ... working about 1,400 hours each year. But German productivity is about 70% higher. One important question concerns whether ...

This chart gets to the root of Canada’s underwhelming productivity performance, which spills over into our lagging relative competitiveness. It contrasts how much a country invests toward ...

In its 2024 election manifesto the Labour party talked about seeing productivity grow “in every part of the country”, but it’s not immediately clear how this will be assessed. The pledge doesn’t make ...