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11/06/2016 GMT

On this week's Talking Business Tanya Beckett explores the reasons why the UK lags so far behind other industrialised countries, and asks what can be done to improve productivity.

Workers in the UK produce significantly less per hour than the G7 average. The Chancellor George Osborne says poor productivity is the "challenge of our time". On this week's Talking Business Tanya Beckett explores the reasons why the UK lags so far behind other industrialised countries, and asks what can be done to improve productivity.

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