In the report entitled “Investing in Productivity Growth”, the consultancy points out that data for Spain shows that since 2012, labour productivity growth has been 0.4%, compared to an average of 0.5% in the rest of the major European economies, and 1% in the United States. Spain, the report points out, has had a sustained low productivity growth for a quarter of a century – only in Italy has it…
BancaMarch : The year-on-year rates for the fourth quarter of 2023 are a clear example of divergence, with -1.2% in the eurozone and +2.6% in the US. In the longer term, the growth differential between the two regions has also been observed. Comparing output per hours worked since 2019, the US grew by more than +6% compared with +1% for the euro area as a whole. ECB member Isabel Schnabel…
Banca March: Economic growth, salaries and fiscal policy are some of the issues addressed by Spain’s Minister of Economy. As Carlos Cuerpo said, the ministry is comfortable with the GDP growth forecast of 2% for 2024, above the estimates of other international institutions – IMF (1.5%), Eurostat (1.7%), OECD (1.5%) -. On the other hand, he explained that, in order to tackle the challenge of increasing productivity, a National Productivity…
Between 2000 and 2022, Spain accumulated a reduction in productivity of 7.3%. The fall is even more surprising when compared with other countries such as the United States and Germany, where in the same period this indicator rose by 15.5% and 11.8%, respectively. The accumulated fall is evidence of “a deficient use of the resources used” and places Spain at a “disadvantage” compared to the productivity of other countries. “A…
Fernando González Urbaneja | Two economic and labour issues are occupying the public debate: how to sustain employment and how to increase wages. These are seemingly incompatible goals, but labour markets are so complex they cannot be locked into simple equations. Claiming that lowering wages will increase employment is as unfounded as claiming that raising wages will reduce employment. There are other, more complex factors involved in order to achieve…
Why can’t Spain’s current strong growth be sustainable?
May 22, 2015 | UBS | Why has real GDP growth been surprisingly weak compared to job gains? Why do some economists expect only slowly-trending GDP expansion in the coming years? Why has the unemployment rate fallen more often than expected?
SAO PAULO | By Marcus Nunes via Historinhas | NGDP and RGDP trends are rather similar in both countries. The main question is: Why is the UK´s labor market so much more exuberant?
WASHINGTON | By Pablo Pardo | Progress, what progress? We live in an era of endless technological possibilities. Or so they say. We have drones to bomb every soul in the remotest desert; GPS to avoid getting lost while paying a visit to our in-laws (it remains to be seen if that is actually a good thing or not); cellphones to tell us how many calories we have burnt during a walk; robots to play the nurses’ role in hospitals (and sometimes they’re even nicer); and, soon, we will see driverless cars which, according to those who have tried them, are way safer than the current, human-controlled ones. In the meantime, this article is being written from Washington, DC, and it will be edited and posted online in New York, on a London-based website.
MADRID | After the national office for statistics in Spain confirmed everyone’s suspicions about the country returning to recession, with a -0.3% economic contraction versus expectations of -0.4% , a note from BBVA research team on Spain’s strengths could come handy as a reminder that the #spanic would be still avoidable and this Espan-hole could be safely closed. BBVA analysts explained in its monthly report aptly headlined ‘Leaving stereotypes behind‘ that…