Global Productivity : Trends, Drivers, and Policies

The COVID-19 pandemic struck the global economy after a decade that featured a broad-based slowdown in productivity growth. Global Productivity: Trends, Drivers, and Policies presents the first comprehensive analysis of the evolution and drivers of productivity growth, examines the effects of COVID-...

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Main Author: Dieppe, Alistair
Format: Book
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2020
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Online Access:https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/834231623049152769/global-productivity-trends-drivers-and-policies
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34015
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Summary:The COVID-19 pandemic struck the global economy after a decade that featured a broad-based slowdown in productivity growth. Global Productivity: Trends, Drivers, and Policies presents the first comprehensive analysis of the evolution and drivers of productivity growth, examines the effects of COVID-19 on productivity, and discusses a wide-range of policies needed to rekindle productivity growth. The book also provides a far-reaching dataset of multiple measures of productivity for up to 164 advanced economies and emerging market and developing economies and introduces a new sectoral database of productivity.