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- 01 28, 2025
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For moreONS than a decade economists have been debating Britain’s “”, an alliterative way of noting that British productivity growth has been peculiarly weak since 2008. The problem is especially chronic in public services (see chart), where productivity grew by just 0.2% a year on average between 1997 and 2019, according to new data released by the Office for National Statistics ().