Productivity – Official Government of Jersey Blog

Jersey’s Financial Services industry: It’s Time to Win

Government of Jersey 19 March 2026 —

Andrew McLaughlin, Chief Executive Officer, Government of Jersey Jersey’s finance sector is arguably the Island’s most remarkable economic achievement of the past 60 years – built almost from scratch and now responsible for around half of Jersey’s GDP and more than half of government tax revenues. It is an industry which, if listed, would be the size of a FTSE 100 company. … Read more Jersey’s Financial Services industry: It’s Time to Win

Building a stronger financial future for Jersey

Government of Jersey 27 November 2025 —

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?

Economics Unit 8 August 2024 —

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?

Economics Unit 24 April 2024 —

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.