it tries to explain reasons for lesser productivity of Europe in comparison to USA.

1. Why Europe lags behind America in
Productivity?
January 20, 2011
Presented by
Aditya Kumar Dixit

2. Contents
Introduction
GDP Per capita comparison
Productivity
Gap in Productivity
Reasons for gap in productivity
Possible Measures to reduce the gap
References

3. Introduction
Gross Domestic Product represents the
total current market value of all goods and
services produced within a country over
the course of some time period.
Productivity is measured as GDP per hour
working.

4. GDP per capita Comparison
$46442 US $33052 US

5. Productivity

6. Gap in Productivity
$11250 US in GDP per capita terms
$6.4 US per hour ( Data 2007 OECD)

7. 7

8. Reasons for gap
Underperformance of service sector
Inability to build upon ICT
Market regulation

9. Reasons for gap

10. Measures to reduce the gap
Injecting
Deregulation
competition
Measures
Reaping benefits Emulate best
of ICT practices
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11. References
Mckinsey Quarterly report October 2010
Europe’s productivity challenge :-
The Economist
Regulation, Allocative ,Efficiency and
Productivity in OECD Countries :- by
Jens Arnold, Giuseppe Nicoletti,
Stefano Scarpetta
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12. References
 An article written by Ashley Seager in
‘The Guardian’
www.europa.eu
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13. THANKS
HAVE A GOOD DAY
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