Welsh productivity performance: lost cause or still waiting for a miracle?

Henley, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4057-1679 2024. Welsh productivity performance: lost cause or still waiting for a miracle? Welsh Economic Review 29 , pp. 1-16. 10.18573/wer.267

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Abstract

Wales has a chronic and severe problem of low productivity, and shares with the wider UK two decades of stagnant productivity. Significantly, Wales has a severe and persistent productivity gap with other UK nations and regions, and with other international competitors. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the issues together with some analysis of both the Welsh productivity gap and the intra-Wales dispersion of productivity. The paper describes potential macro and micro productivity drivers and argues that there is an urgent need to (re-) promote productivity within Wales as a policy objective.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Publisher:	Cardiff University Press
ISSN:	2397-8716
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	15 April 2024
Date of Acceptance:	26 October 2023
Last Modified:	25 Jul 2024 12:49
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/167972

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