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Scotland’s Productivity Challenge: Exploring the issues – 2025

This paper updates the key data shaping the productivity performance for Scotland. The presentation is organised around the broad research themes of The Productivity Institute and draws comparisons with other UK regions and internationally. The refreshed paper updates its findings within the context of the six capitals framework, including a new look at environmental aspects falling under ‘natural’ capital. Section 3 presents the broad productivity and intraregional trends. Sections 4, 5 and 6 collect evidence on productivity drivers and presents the policy landscape. The last section outlines some of the key issues for Scotland as they emerge from the analysis.

Authors Daniel Williams, John Tsoukalas, Bridgette Wessels, Pawel Gaska

Themes

  • Productivity Studies

Published

27/01/2025

Cite

D. Williams, J. Tsoukalas, B. Wessels, P. Gaska (2025) Scotland’s Productivity Challenge: Exploring the issues – 2025. Productivity Insights Paper No. 045, The Productivity Institute.

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