Category: 21. Global

Productivity leads to prosperity

New from the MGI – McKinsey Global Institute – a transcript of a McKinsey podcast where Olivia White and Charles Atkins join McKinsey editorial director and host Roberta Fusaro to share tangible ways for boosting US productivity. We always applaud the MGI for being one of the very few to focus on productivity as being …

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World Bank says ‘global economic growth is nearing a speed limit’

An article in Fortune.com by YTRISTAN BOVE reports on top economists’ conclusions that, after three decades of mostly fast-paced growth, the global economy may finally be in for a big slowdown – an aging global workforce and declining private sector investment are converging to limit economic growth – left unattended, these threats could set the …

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TFP = ‘Mix & Methods’, not ‘Magic Fairy Dust’

In our view, national productivity statistics are seriously flawed yet employed by our leaders, academics and media as if facts – used to determine economic policies or ‘shock-and-horror’ headlines but meaningless to all at organisation level – and, more recently, TFP has joined the party because some have spotted said flaws and noted that productivity …

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Australia’s Productivity Commission has a 5 year productivity plan

Professor Stephen King of Monash University is a member of Australia’s Productivity Commission and helped write their 5 year productivity plan – the following article in ‘The Conversation’ is his take on what Australia should do Stephen King   Australia is a living testament to the benefits of productivity growth. An average worker today puts …

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‘Ocean forests’ counter global warming

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