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The UK Productivity Gap
- Level:
- AS, A-Level, IB
- Board:
- AQA, Edexcel, OCR, IB, Eduqas, WJEC
Last updated 14 Apr 2019
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,”
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