Raising workers' quality is key to global productivity

Recent productivity research gives more importance to improvements in the quality of capital and particularly labour

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United Kingdom: TFP measures

Alternative Total Factor Productivity measures in the UK

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Local coffee growers continue to expand output, but increases are insufficient to meet the state’s lofty targets

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Faster and better-functioning rail connections will make Russia a key transit route -- if the investment can be found

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Economic activity has picked up across the world; risks are largely idiosyncratic in the near term but are higher ahead

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Supply cuts by the oil cartel are underwriting the booming production growth of their US competitors

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The economy is coming out of recession, but GDP will not return to the high growth rates of the 2000s

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After years of high prices, Latin American efforts to raise cacao production may prove badly timed

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First-quarter GDP data show an economy in recovery but still vulnerable to global hydrocarbons price changes

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Microbreweries and wine consumption are on the rise, but two large brewers still dominate Mexico’s alcohol market.

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