LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - Productivity growth in Britain's economy weakened in the first quarter of this year compared to the final three months of 2024 and was down compared with a year previously, ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is contemplating tax rises in her Budget on 26 November. And she has said one of the key reasons is that the government's official forecaster, the Office for Budget ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Companies with low productivity account for a larger share of UK businesses than three decades ago, according ...

The green transition will boost productivity across the UK economy, new research suggests. Researchers analysed the impacts of the low-carbon transition in power, transport and heating. With renewable ...

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The world economy faces a sobering reality. The global growth rate—stripped of cyclical ups and downs—has slowed steadily since the 2008-09 global financial crisis. Without policy intervention and ...

In 2017, an independent review board led by Jurgen Maier, then CEO of Siemens UK, made a startling proposal: If UK businesses adopted digital technology at a faster rate, the country's industrial ...