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David Jordan
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Lecturer in Economics at Queen's University Belfast. Interested in regional & public economics, economic & financial history, & Northern Ireland go.qub.ac.uk/davidjordan
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Very pleased to share our research on Northern Ireland’s productivity challenge at yesterday’s Institute of Directors NI lunch at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social. You can find out more about our @productivity.bsky.social research here: www.productivity.ac.uk/regions-nati... #Productivity #QBSresearch
Photo of speakers at the Institute of Directors Northern Ireland lunch at Queen's University Belfast
April 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Very pleased to contribute to today’s Powering Productivity Conference organised by @investni.bsky.social, discussing the reasons for Northern Ireland’s low productivity and sharing findings from our NI Productivity Forum research for @productivity.bsky.social
Panel discussion at the Powering Productivity Conference
March 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Today we launched our new @productivity.bsky.social report 'NI Productivity 2040' at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social. Co-authored with Ruth Donaldson & @profjohnturner.bsky.social we provide a roadmap for how policy can close Northern Ireland's productivity gap: productivity.ac.uk/research/nor...
Front cover of 'NI Productivity 2040'. Pictured L-R are: Ruth Donaldson, Research Associate at Queen's Business School and the NI Productivity Forum; Professor John Turner, from Queen’s Business School and NI Productivity Forum Lead; John Healy OBE, Chair of Invest Northern Ireland; and Dr David Jordan, from Queen’s Business School and the NI Productivity Forum.
January 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Has Northern Ireland’s productivity bubble burst?

Today we’ve launched this year’s NI Productivity Dashboard, written with Ruth Donaldson & John Turner for
@productivity.bsky.social, showing NI’s productivity gap has widened.

Read & download: productivity.ac.uk/research/nor...
#QBSresearch
Northern Ireland (NI) has persistently had the lowest productivity of the UK’s twelve regions. But it saw an improvement during the Covid-19 pandemic, moving up to 7th place. The most recently published data shows this improvement has not been sustained. Productivity in NI was 13% below the UK average in 2022, widening from 11% in 2021. This led to NI falling back to 10th place amongst the UK’s twelve regions, ahead of only the East Midlands and Wales. NI also lags behind the Republic of Ireland, where productivity is 8% higher than the UK average. This means productivity in NI is 20% lower than in the Republic of Ireland. The dashboard assesses NI’s performance across the key drivers of productivity, which provide the foundations for long-run productivity growth. Overall, there has been no change from last year’s dashboard. 14 of the dashboard’s 18 drivers are red and below the UK average. Only 2 drivers are green and therefore better than the UK average; and 2 drivers are either equal to the UK average, or below this but above the UK median. Across the three editions of the dashboard since 2022, it is clear that NI possesses deep-seated issues that must be addressed before we will see meaningful progress. While some drivers have seen both short and long-term improvements – such as exports and qualifications – these are in the minority. 8 drivers have experienced no improvement in either the short and/or long-term. With the return of the NI Executive in February 2024, and the new draft Programme for Government, there is an opportunity for the Executive to make progress in improving these key drivers of productivity. This will require a long-term commitment to prioritising productivity when designing, implementing, and evaluating policy. Authors: Ruth Donaldson (Queen’s University Belfast), David Jordan (Queen’s University Belfast), John Turner (Queen’s University Belfast)
December 5, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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Very pleased to speak at the Northern Ireland Economic Conference this week, and provide an overview of NI’s performance across key drivers of productivity, based on research with Ruth Donaldson & @profjohnturner.bsky.social for the Northern Ireland Productivity Forum @productivity.bsky.social
Line-up of panellists at the Northern Ireland Economic Conference 2024
November 22, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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Very pleased this week to contribute to a joint Dept for the Economy seminar on management & leadership practices in NI, presenting with Ruth Donaldson on our management booklet for @productivity.bsky.social & hearing about the work of Karen Bonner & co-authors at Ulster Economic Policy Centre
November 8, 2024 at 9:09 PM