US labor productivity advanced at a firm pace in the fourth quarter, capping another year of faster efficiency gains that ...

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits increased moderately last week, consistent with ...

but wage growth has not followed. Why? Well, the answer to that is contained in our fourth chart - productivity, the ability of the economy to produce more for every hour worked. Here, we can see ...

It’s the Chinese AI start-up that has its American rivals on edge. Could it be faster, smarter and use fewer resources?

Compared with 1995 to 2007, future US and European growth of real (after-inflation) GDP per person is expected to diminish by half, or worse. In each case, a serious weakening of growth in labor ...

To help make sense of 2025, The Globe and Mail asked dozens of experts, including economists, investors, academics and business leaders, to each choose a chart they think will be important to ...

We find the following: This suggests that TFP growth may play a key role in supporting labour productivity growth. While TFP growth has declined steadily since the 1960s, it rebounded in the 2010s ...

In fact, the argument goes, the data shows that labor productivity ... Looking at a chart of Blue Chip Consensus estimates for GDP growth back to the early 1990s, a few trends become clear.

Global production of six major food and animal feed crops (corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, cassava, and millet) has dramatically increased and outpaced world population growth between 1961 and 2022 ...