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The UK Productivity Gap

Level:
A-Level, IB Diploma
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AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, IB, OCR, WJEC

Last updated 14 Apr 2019

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In this short revision video, we look at the substantial productivity gap between the UK and many of the UK’s major competitor countries. Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist said twenty fives years ago that “Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,”

The UK Productivity Gap
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