{"id":392132,"date":"2026-04-10T20:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392132\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:01:14","slug":"productivity-remains-greek-economys-big-problem-oecd-report-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392132\/","title":{"rendered":"Productivity remains Greek economy\u2019s big problem, OECD report notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/oecd_web--2-thumb-large.jpg\" alt=\"Productivity remains Greek economy\u2019s big problem, OECD report notes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/oecd_web--2-thumb-large.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Low productivity remains an obstacle to the further convergence of the Greek economy with the most developed economies of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), while the large investment gap, low innovation and the slow adoption of advanced technologies by businesses continue to limit the dynamics of growth, according to an OECD report on the foundations of growth and competitiveness published Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The report emphasizes the resilience of the Greek economy amid recent crises but also highlights the challenges that slow down its progress.<\/p>\n<p>To increase incomes, ensure competitiveness and cover Greece\u2019s sizable spending needs, a boost in productivity and continued efforts to improve labor market conditions are required, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Low productivity remains an obstacle to the further convergence of the Greek economy with the most developed economies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,1094],"class_list":{"0":"post-392132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-report"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}