The chart below shows how the per-hour ... the financial downturn has changed the UK's place in the G7 pecking order. Average annual productivity growth between 1997 and 2007 for the rest of ...

The finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven (G7) leading economies have ... imbalances and ways to promote growth and productivity." The communiqué noted that while ...

Across the G7, these measures both increased from 2011 to 2012. (Office for National Statistics) Howard Archer, chief UK and european economist at IHS Global Insight, comments on the productivity ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Complacency about productivity improvements is holding back UK businesses compared with most of their G7 ...

The analysis reveals that while all G7 countries have seen rises in productivity since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, workers in America were a staggering 23% more productive in 2019 than UK ...

Japan ranks 23rd for labor productivity among the 36 nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, according to the Japan Productivity Center’s International Comparison ...

The UK displays differing productivity across regions and lags all but one G7 country. This paper reviews available UK productivity data to present a backdrop of productivity in the UK and against G7 ...

The UK’s productivity is near the bottom of the G7 wealthiest nations in the world, in stark contrast to the US, where productivity has accelerated since 2019, according to think tank the Resolution ...

It, thus, remains below the average of the G7 "club" of leading advanced economies. Of still greater significance may be the trend, which shows that British productivity has been catching up with ...

However, the ONS statistics also show that productivity in the UK was 18% lower than the average for the rest of the G7 advanced economies in 2015. The ONS said: "While the more recent ...

That view was bolstered after a senior official at Japan's Finance Ministry said the yen could be discussed at the G7 gathering in ... data on U.S. business productivity for the fourth quarter ...

In terms of real basis adjusted according to price changes, Japan's productivity climbed 1.2 percent from a year earlier, placing ninth in percentage rise among OECD members and second in the G7 ...