The Communications and Productivity Fund

Hunt set to unveil investment to boost public sector productivity

...A portion of the pot will go towards driving up productivity in the NHS, with a capital injection aimed at enhancing automation and increasing the use of data, according to people briefed on the plans....

February 29, 2024

FT Swamp Notes

Power, productivity and how our system works Premium

...For example, the Mercers — a father (Robert) and daughter (Rebekah) billionaire hedge fund team — created the space for Donald Trump to rise by funding rightwing media outlets like Breitbart and backing...

April 22, 2024

FT Live

Infrastructure Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Identifying opportunities for investors and asset managers

Budget 2024: As it happened

Comment: Productivity payments offer clues to Tories’ spending strategy

...The chancellor’s commitment to fund the NHS productivity plan in full and invest heavily in digital transformation and patient record-keeping offers a glimpse of how the Tories believe they can save money...

March 6, 2024

FT Schools

Economics class: Europe faces ‘competitiveness crisis’ as US widens productivity gap

...Specification: Efficiency and productivity Click to read the article and then answer the questions: Europe faces ‘competitiveness crisis’ as US widens productivity gap Define productivity Distinguish...

March 17, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

Hunt promises public sector productivity drive

...Jeremy Hunt said he would pay for the NHS productivity plan in full, rather than incrementally over a series of years....

March 6, 2024

Miranda Green

Zen and the art of the zoned-out commute

...And most liminal spaces and in-between slices of time have been stolen by fearsome modern foes: the omnipresent smartphone and the drive to milk every second for maximum productivity....

March 31, 2024

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

Letter

Letter: Habakkuk’s productivity warning is worth recalling

...In explaining the growing productivity gap between the US and European economies, your article (“US extends productivity lead over Europe”, Report, March 11) cites the view that US employers are more likely...

March 18, 2024

Letter

Letter: Fairer apportioning of the pie can boost productivity

...also increasing wealth overall, and, as has been shown, increase their and the country’s productivity too?...

March 13, 2024

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...(Esquire) — Algorithmic collusion (The Diff) — The miseducation of Kara Swisher (The Baffler) — Error handling in baby toys (Brain Baking) — How Cadbury’s re-conquered the corner shop (The Sunday Times...

April 2, 2024

Technology sector

What’s after Nvidia in the AI rally?

...The Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund is down 4.4 per cent over the past year. Identifying Phase 3 is a little trickier....

March 15, 2024

Unhedged

Adam Posen: ‘We overlooked how resilient people are’ Premium

...Posen: At the moment, I am a reluctant productivity bull, and I do think it’s a two-step process. We’ve had three quarters in a row of pretty strong productivity growth....

March 1, 2024

Free LunchMartin Sandbu

Understanding America’s productivity boom Premium

...The productivity surge happened above all in knowledge-intensive industries: professional and business services, education and health, and information services....

February 29, 2024

Andy Haldane

The political love-in with business is long overdue

...There are only two ways to grow sustainably: increase the workforce or boost its productivity....

February 9, 2024

Free LunchMartin Sandbu

Parsing Europe’s productivity stagnation Premium

...In both economies, the sector with the strongest productivity growth was the information industry, which includes telecoms and data processing....

March 7, 2024

Letter

Letter: A false dichotomy: trade unions versus productivity

...The result is higher levels of productivity and far better quality of life....

March 1, 2024

FT Live

Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?

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Angela Rayner

Labour promises to work with business

...Labour’s mission to achieve the fastest sustained economic growth in the G7 is no small order and we can’t reach that goal without solving our productivity crisis....

February 18, 2024

Global Economy

Global economy faces decade of weak growth, warns IMF chief

...In an address to the Atlantic Council on Thursday, she added that, without measures to boost productivity and lower debt burdens, the world faced “a sluggish and disappointing” decade, which she labelled...

April 11, 2024

News updates from March 5: China targets 5% GDP growth in 2024, Gold and Bitcoin hit record highs

Spirent Communications accepts £1bn offer from Viavi

...London-listed Spirent Communications has accepted a £1bn bid from US technology company Viavi Solutions....

March 5, 2024

Special ReportFuture of AI

Financial services counting on AI for a productivity boost

...Armed with cutting-edge technology, companies hope to explore new ways of working, and boost productivity....

March 26, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: Productivity doesn’t have to be hard work

...Ali AbdaalSo when I was in medical school at Cambridge university, the only productivity technique I knew was working harder. And you know, I did the grind and the grit and the discipline....

January 9, 2024

UK labour productivity

UK productivity almost flat since the financial crisis

...The data revealed big differences between sectors, with total factor productivity in information and communication more than doubling since 2007, reflecting technological advancement in the sector....

November 9, 2023

UK Budget 2024

Chancellor sets out £3.4bn plan to boost NHS productivity

...Hunt said the Treasury would take a different approach when reviewing spending applications by other Whitehall departments, and that it would now fund productivity improvement schemes that can be shown to...

March 6, 2024

Grace Lordan

Are you paying attention? Try these hacks to stop distraction

...It is a superpower that can level up your wellbeing and turbocharge your productivity. But where should you begin?...

December 29, 2023

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...— How Brexit wrecked the stock market (Simon Nixon) — What hundreds of economic news events say about belief overreaction in the stock market (NEBR) — Why is Europe losing the productivity race?...

April 11, 2024

Working It podcast18 min listen

Productivity doesn't have to be hard work

...Isabel speaks to Ali Abdaal, a former doctor and one of the world's most-followed productivity experts, to hear about the role joy can play in working better....

January 9, 2024

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