CANBERRA -- The rate at which Australia is building homes has fallen by half over the last 30 years, a government report has ...

Analysts at the bank think that more expensive borrowing costs could force firms to employ resources more efficiently.

Productivity, or nonfarm employee output per hour, rose at a 1.2% annualized rate after a revised 2.3% increase in the July-to-September period, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed ...

Maintaining current productivity rates would bring a continuation of the 2 percent economic growth rates that have prevailed over the past 25 years. As explained in the next section, pushing ...

Higher interest rates could give the UK’s lacklustre productivity performance a boost, according to Deutsche Bank. Analysts at the bank think that more expensive borrowing costs could force ...

There’s been a bit of ballyhooing of late about Australia’s falling productivity rates, as if it’s a problem that has just occurred. But the decline has been a big problem globally for well ...

but productivity remains “abysmal”. “We have had a little economic miracle over the last three years – we’ve had the most aggressive rate tightening cycle, despite that, we’ve avoided ...