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Budget explainer: the problem with measuring productivity

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

Productivity seems to be one of the measures the Federal Government is using to justify its policy decisions in the lead up to the budget.

The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull invoked this little understood term in relation to the bill to resurrect the Australian Building and Construction Commission.

He said:

When the Australian Building and...

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