Potential urban drivers behind London’s productivity slowdown

Box 4: London’s areas and the role of emerging areas on the fringes of central London.

Figure 7: The productivity slowdown was mostly driven in central London local authorities.

Figure 6: London’s weak productivity growth is likely to be driven by its superstar firms.

Figure 5: London lost its competitive advantage in finance and insurance.

Table 1: The productivity slowdown occurred in almost all services.

Box 3: Classification of exporters, local services and the definition of knowledge-intensive exporting services.

The composition of London’s productivity stagnation

Figure 4: Unlike other global cities, London performs below the national average.

Box 2: The role of London’s employment growth in the UK’s productivity.

Figure 3: London alone is responsible for almost half of the UK’s post-2007 productivity gap.Figure 2: London has gone from leading national productivity growth to lagging behind it.London’s lost decade of productivity gains and the costs to the national economy

Figure 1: Productivity slowdown has been particularly strong in the UK.

London relations with global cities