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Productivity gap
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Productivity gap

Saddique Ansari • January 29, 2020 • 1 min read

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Productivity gap

A productivity gap is the difference between one county’s productivity levels, as measured by output per workers or output per hour worked, in comparison with the country’s main export competitors.


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