Show Notes
Is the UK’s recent productivity recovery a sign of lasting improvement? How could AI, technology adoption and shifting global economic conditions shape the country’s future productivity?
This episode of Productivity Puzzles explores the challenges facing the UK economy, from weak technology diffusion and widening gaps between firms to trade, competitiveness and the priorities needed to support long-term productivity growth.
Host Professor Bart van Ark is joined by:
Professor Jun Du, TPI Managing Director and Professor of Economics at Alliance Manchester Business School
For more information on the topic:
Bart's farewell blog: https://www.productivity.ac.uk/news/productivity-place-and-the-power-of-alignment-reflections-on-six-years-at-tpi/ Jun's introductory blog: Productivity when nothing stands still - The Productivity Institute Jun Du, Look inside, look around, look beyond: Look inside, look around, look beyond: From productivity gaps to adaptive capacity - The Productivity Institute Jun Du, The options are familiar. The world around them is not: The options are familiar. The world around them is not. - The Productivity Institute Bart & Dirk's pro-productivity policy book/project: Pro-Productivity Policies - The Productivity Institute Bart's recent frontier/diffusion paper: Rewiring Europe’s Productivity Framework: Aligning Investment, Innovation, and Diffusion - The Productivity Institute The Manchesterism publication: The Manchester Model: what foreign inward investment reveals about the UK’s most productive city outside London - The Productivity Institute Link to the ONS paper: Measuring labour productivity: our new approach | National Statistical
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