Throughout the developed world, productivity growth has been remarkably weak. Even though we are faced daily with new technological gizmos, growth in output per hour has been dismal. Admittedly, some countries have done better than others. Between 2007 and 2014 — the latest year for which comparable data are available — output per hour rose over 7 per cent across the US economy while in the UK it was broadly unchanged and in Italy it actually fell 2 per cent.
在整个发达世界，生产率增长都非常疲软。即便我们天天都能看到科技界的新发明，每小时产出的增长却令人失望。无可否认，部分国家的表现比其他国家好一些。从2007年到2014年（这是有可比数据的最近年份），美国的每小时产出增长逾7%，而英国大体上没什么变化，意大利更是下滑了2%。
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