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Want to boost productivity? Fix education, stop the buck-passing – and cut energy costs

28 January 2020

4:00 PM

28 January 2020

4:00 PM

One thing on which almost all economists can unite is that Australia’s productivity performance for the past dozen years has been unsatisfactory.

Lifting productivity growth is therefore a top priority for the nation – since, in the long run, it is only productivity growth that can sustainably deliver increases in living standards, year after year.

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