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Author: Lukasz Rachel

  • Rethinking productivity: a carbon emissions perspective

    Environment & climate change

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    26th January 2026

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    Lukasz Rachel

    Maarten De Ridder

    Over the past 20 years, productivity growth has been lacklustre in most advanced economies. But standard measures ignore the progress that some economies have made in terms of lowering emissions of carbon dioxide. Factoring this in could change the narrative entirely.

    Rethinking productivity: a carbon emissions perspective

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