The four causes of Australia’s productivity decline

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Last week, ABC’s Ian Verrender published an article on the “productivity conundrum” preventing the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) from cutting interest rates.

“Like many other developed countries, our productivity growth has gone down the shoot”, wrote Verrender.

“In many ways, ours has been even worse”.

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.