President Xi this week made clear that faster productivity gains are central to his “high-quality development” agenda. Focusing on raising productivity is a good idea in principle but making it a target risks creating new data distortions. And there are tensions between the desire to lift productivity and the goals of achieving rapid near-term growth and of using industrial policy to boost economic security.
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