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As Alan Shipman (OpenU) points out, in the end the UK economic malaise really centres on one problem - the inability to raise productivity.

Among the causes:

ineffective Govt. industrial policy (focussed as it is on financial services);

rubbish management (which I've posted on before) & unwillingness to invest in workers' skills or wellbeing;

oligopolies stifling competition alongside hopeless (captured) regulators;

inequality of 'rewards'.

#productivity

https://theconversation.com/why-the-social-pain-of-welfare-reform-overshadows-any-economic-gain-252574