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What is productivity and how do we accurately measure it?
Manage episode 489580930 series 2902253
Australia's labour productivity growth rate has slowed to its lowest level in at least 20 years.
The Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has named productivity as his priority for Labor's second term in government with a roundtable announced — to canvass the way forward.
But what exactly is productivity and why is it so hard to correct the course?
- Guest: Dr John Hawkins, Head of Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra and former senior economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Treasury
- Producer: Grace Stranger
359 episodes
Manage episode 489580930 series 2902253
Australia's labour productivity growth rate has slowed to its lowest level in at least 20 years.
The Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has named productivity as his priority for Labor's second term in government with a roundtable announced — to canvass the way forward.
But what exactly is productivity and why is it so hard to correct the course?
- Guest: Dr John Hawkins, Head of Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra and former senior economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Treasury
- Producer: Grace Stranger
359 episodes
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