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Labour Productivity
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Introduction 

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KEY INSIGHTS

1. Labour productivity relates output to the number of workers employed.​

2.​ Growth in labour productivity is the key to higher living standards as a country can sustain real wage increases without losing competitiveness, only if labour productivity grows.​​



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