Leisure-enhancing technologies, which are taking up more and more of people's time and attention, may explain a significant part of the slowdown in productivity growth observed in advanced economies in recent decades – says...
“We have become a victim to the mania of talking about innovation and have neglected other important areas of the economy, i.e. people who make the world go round but who do not invent new products,” says professor Lee Vinsel...
The profits of three German automotive companies — Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes-Benz — are higher than the profits of the entire Polish processing industry. So, the idea that Poland could quickly catch up with Germany and the...
By the end of December 2019, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Prime Minister Ana Brnabić presented the Serbia 2025 program, which contains a plan of investment projects for the development of the country over the next...
The main constraint for Croatia's long-term economic growth is the growth of productivity, and not demographic problems the country, together with Central and Southeast Europe (CSE), faces.
“It took years before computers started affecting the economy, but the current technological revolution should become visible in the statistics quicker,” believes Professor Matilde Mas.
Labor costs have been rising at the fast rate, but they still are only 12.6 per cent of the operating costs. Poland has large pockets of underpaid labor in the economy, says Piotr Boguszewski, PhD.
Poles work 24.4 per cent less hours than Americans. In the United States the employees not only work more, but are also more likely to work on weekends and in evenings.
The slowdown of productivity is a fact, said Professor Adam Glapiński, Governor of Poland's central bank NBP, during the 8th Annual NBP Conference on the Future of the European Economy.
Europe needs productivity growth, said Hans Peter Lankes, Managing Director for corporate strategy at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.