英國生產力為什麼這麼低

Productivity has barely grown in the UK since the financial crisis and now lags 35% behind Germany and 30% behind the US

自金融危機以來應該的生產力就幾乎沒有增長，現在已經落後德國35%，落後美國30%。

The shortfall in productivity compared with other developed economies has long been Britain’s economic achilles heel. It is a problem that Conservative and Labour chancellors have been grappling with for decades.

與其他發達國家相比更低的生產力已經成了英國的阿喀琉斯之踵。幾十年了，無論是保守黨還是工黨人當選的首相都被這個問題困擾着。

Productivity is a guide to how good a country is at delivering the goods and services that are bought and sold. Technically it is the rate of output per unit of input measured per worker or by the number of hours worked. In layman’s terms it is a measure of what goes in and what comes out.

生產力是衡量一個國家生產用於交易的商品或者服務效率高低的判斷標準。從技術角度來説，它是用單位人工或者單位工作時間來衡量的單位產出與單位投入的比率。在門外漢角度看就是投入和產出比的衡量工具。