政府研究所：2026年政府如何设计更好的增长政策报告（英文版）

The problem is productivity. The UK has usually managed to keep its labour force growing, so the issue is productivity: how much each unit of labour can produce. From the end of the 1990–92 recession up until 2008, it was normal to record annual increases of 2.0–2.5% in how much each worker could produce in an hour. In the aftermath of the crisis, this dropped to below 1.0% and has stayed there