Impressive productivity performance during the last decades has weakened since 2007, reflecting the 2008-09 recession … raise long term productivity growth need to be pursued. Current project-based R&D-support and business subsidies seem … quality rather than block grants. Productivity performance could be enhanced by exposing sectors like health provision …

Despite sound policies and institutions, Danish productivity has grown modestly over the past decade, both historically …

Australia’s productivity growth has decelerated markedly around the turn of the century. Part of the decline is … probably temporary, but raising multifactor productivity is key to ensure that living standards continue to grow strongly … regulations across states would boost competition and productivity. …

Danish productivity has grown only weakly over the past two decades, both historically and in relation to other … to continue its efforts to reap the benefits of globalisation, which would contribute to invigorating productivity growth …

The Irish economy has experienced a decline in productivity growth over the past decade. This has mostly reflected the … poor performance of local firms, with the large productivity gap between foreign-owned and local enterprises having widened …. Given the mobility of foreign-owned firms, achieving sustainable productivity growth requires addressing productivity …

Never in the past 30 years has productivity growth been lower than since the 2008 global financial crisis, and never … origins, including a widening productivity and wage gap between leading firms and those that are lagging. This creates scope … for positive synergy between policies to promote productivity and inclusive growth. Exit policy should be improved to …

Productivity growth has slowed across most OECD economies since the mid-2000s. While important aspects of New Zealand …’s economic performance have improved over this period, productivity growth is still comparatively low. This continues a long …-run trend of poor productivity in New Zealand, which is the key reason why average incomes are still below the OECD average …

. Digital technologies offer opportunities to raise firms’ productivity and the population’s well-being. However, wide … productivity gaps between large firms and SMEs and between manufacturing and services weigh on economy-wide productivity, which is …

sector is highly segmented, with a relatively small core of modern high-productivity corporations, and myriad small, less … formal and low-productivity entities. This hampers efficient resource allocation and tends to entrench social inequalities … to be overcome to raise productivity in the informal, low-skill and low-productivity sector, and to facilitate resource …

This paper analyses for 34 OECD countries the extent to which the calculation of aggregate multi-factor productivity …