UK Productivity Slow Down Versus G7

September 20, 2015 Share Print 0

The UK was much less productive than the rest of the G7 in 2014, lagging by the most since 1991, official figures have shown.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said output per hour was 20 percentage points below the G7 average.

The UK was behind the US, Germany and France by a large margin and was slightly worse than Italy and Canada.

Productivity is seen as key to helping increase living standards in the UK by many experts.

Via BBC

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Alfonso Esparza specializes in macro forex strategies for North American and major currency pairs. Upon joining OANDA in 2007, Alfonso Esparza established the MarketPulseFX blog and he has since written extensively about central banks and global economic and political trends. Alfonso has also worked as a professional currency trader focused on North America and emerging markets. He has been published by The MarketWatch, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail, and he also appears regularly as a guest commentator on networks including Bloomberg and BNN. He holds a finance degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and an MBA with a specialization on financial engineering and marketing from the University of Toronto.