Category: Productivity

Building a stronger financial future for Jersey 

By Deputy Elaine Millar, Minister for Treasury and Resources  This year’s proposed Budget reflects a careful balance between supporting Islanders today and preparing Jersey for the challenges of tomorrow.   Our aim is to invest in essential services – healthcare, children’s wellbeing, and modern infrastructure – alongside a capital programme that includes improvements to Fort Regent, new healthcare facilities and upgrading … Read more Building a stronger financial future for Jersey 

Creative destruction – a force to be embraced and preserved?

Productivity growth at the level of a firm is quite easy to understand.  At its simplest it means a firm finding ways to produce more value with the same or less inputs; but exactly how the actions of individual firms build up to deliver productivity growth at the level of the economy is more difficult to imagine. 

Population and Employment – What does the data tell us?

For a small island, we are lucky enough to be relatively data rich. We have a lot of data, and Statistics Jersey has a programme of work which is delivering more data, different data and better data. This creates a challenge for the economics unit as we look to use this information to understand the story it is telling us about the economy of Jersey. This month’s note looks at the data we have on population, employment and jobs, and the narrative that this data collectively tells us.

Jersey’s Economy: 2022

The Prospects for Growth

Competition and Productivity