Sentences with phrase «weak productivity growth»

The subpar growth reflects weak productivity growth, which has averaged less than 1 % over the past five years, and a low rate of labor force participation that remains at levels last seen in the 1970s.

The country has been dogged by weak productivity growth and nearly non-existent economic growth.

Not exact matches

The latest growth figures are too good to be true — demographics, weak productivity, heavily indebted consumers, and rising interest rates will constrain Canada's economic growth eventually.

Dan Nixon, a senior analyst at the Bank of England, says persistently weak growth in productivity over the past decade has coincided with a ten-fold rise in global shipments in smartphones:

-- Weak investment: Both public and private investment has been subpar in recent years, with the latter feeding back negatively into productivity growth, as Larry Mishel shows — quite dramatically — here.

Though the second - quarter bounce back is dampening wage pressure for now, the weak trend in productivity suggests the economy's growth potential could be lower than the 1.5 percent to 2.0 percent pace that economists have been estimating.

Aging societies, weaker business capital investment and slowing productivity growth have led to a persistent decline in economic growth.

Outside of the mining sector, the general improvement in productivity growth may have been in response to a range of competitive pressures coming to bear during a period of weak growth of aggregate demand.

However, measured labour productivity growth has improved over the past few years across a broader range of industries, following a period of quite weak growth (Graph 3).

Last month, Statistics Canada reported that the labour productivity rate growth contracted 0.2 per cent in 2015, by far its weakest result in three years.

Since weak investment has been identified as a potential drag on productivity growth since the global financial crisis, this shift in incentives could have strong and long - lived benefits.»

The profits recovery has been driven by continued strong productivity growth in conjunction with subdued compensation growth (due to the weak labour market), which has seen unit labour costs fall by 5 per cent since June 2001 — the largest fall on record (Graph A4).

Weak transport links are a major barrier to business growth and can have a dramatic impact on business competitiveness and productivity.

Living standards are falling, productivity growth is weak, and the economy has, in fact, been flat over the last year,» Philip Booth, editorial drector at the Institute of Economic Affairs, said.

In my model, growth between +2 % and -2 % essentially produces the same negative economic and social consequences - rising poverty, unemployment and inequality, low productivity, weak infrastructure, low capital investments and social and political instability!

Aging societies, weaker business capital investment and slowing productivity growth have led to a persistent decline in economic growth.

The building blocks of economic growth are not robust, with an aging population in the Western world, weak productivity gains and governments and consumers constrained by heavy debt loads.

Skills gap deepens as weak productivity looks set to threaten UK economic growth.

Demographics patterns in the U.S. today do not support strong gains in the working age population and labor force without changes in immigration rates, while productivity growth has been stubbornly weak.