{"id":1555,"date":"2019-04-15T17:11:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T16:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2020-02-17T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T17:25:11","slug":"expert-comment-uk-economy-grows-but-labour-productivity-continues-to-stagnate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2019\/04\/15\/expert-comment-uk-economy-grows-but-labour-productivity-continues-to-stagnate\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert comment: UK economy grows but labour productivity continues to stagnate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Professor Miguel Leon-Ledesma from the School of Economics notes that despite a small rise in UK GDP there are areas of concern, not least stagnating labour productivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018According to ONS figures,\u00a0GDP grew by 0.2% in the UK between November 2018 and January 2019. This is the \u201crolling three-month\u201d release that is\u00a0not comparable with quarterly growth statistics\u00a0in National Accounts and is a provisional figure. It is important to note that these figures are likely to be revised in the future. Since revisions normally range between 0.1 and 0.2 percentage points,\u00a0we cannot make much out of the number and it should be treated with caution&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The full article can be viewed on the University of Kent website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/21951\/uk-economy-grows-but-labour-productivity-continues-to-stagnate\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Miguel Leon-Ledesma from the School of Economics notes that despite a small rise in UK GDP there are areas of concern, not least stagnating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2019\/04\/15\/expert-comment-uk-economy-grows-but-labour-productivity-continues-to-stagnate\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37654,"featured_media":1892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,94129,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}