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Carol Newman is a professor of economics at the Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin. Her research is in the microeconomics of development with a focus on household and enterprise behaviour. She has published widely in the fields of...
Technical workshop on measurement of productivity
Workshop held together with the South African Reserve Bank in Pretoria
Technical workshop on measurement of productivity
Mon, 6 June 2016
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) hosted a small technical workshop on the measurement of productivity on 6 June in Pretoria, South Africa.
The workshop tied in to the ‘Why is South African productivity so low?’ workshop held on 7 June in Pretoria. While the productivity workshop focused on policy problems, the workshop on measurement of productivity emphasized productivity statistics.
Programme
| 11:00-12:30 | Productivity measurement: problems and limitations. Paul Schreyer, OECD |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:15 |
Summary of South African productivity data 1. Labour productivity, Shaista Amond and Elmarie Nel, SARB 2. Capital productivity, Johan van den Heever, SARB 3. SARS data, Carol Newman, UNU-WIDER |
| 14:30-16:00 | General discussion |
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