This blog is the first in our new series on the drivers of productivity. The drivers of productivity include skills, investment, innovation, enterprise and competition, and land. This blog focuses on skills, and complements the blogs on GVA and Productivity published in the summer 2024.

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1 September 2025

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What works centre for local economic growth

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https://whatworksgrowth.org/insights/understanding-the-drivers-of-productivity-skills/

This Blog is published under the centre's Urban programme.

This publication comes under the following theme: Urban inequality: The role and determinants of urban productivity, What determines urban growth and urban decline and what should be the role of policy?