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Dead-weight drowning productivity

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14 October 2022

4:00 AM

14 October 2022

4:00 AM

Productivity growth is the key to income growth – we can’t have the latter without the former. A matter that has troubled many economists in the Western world during recent decades is a slowdown in productivity growth. 

Australia is typical. Multi-factor productivity – the overall return on labour and capital inputs combined – has been growing at only 0.3

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