As I presumed, and I am certainly not faulting your analysis. You are using the standard tools. My criticism is of the particular tool of productivity, which must be used with care. As used by international financial capitalism it will reliably poison your economy when policy decisions privilege productivity over other vital factors for an economy and society.

By breaking down low profitability manufacturing companies and shipping the tools and expertise to China we certainly improved the productivity of the process from the perspective of those who undertook it. But from many other perspectives it has been a disaster. That is why I would like to see the whole concept of "productivity", like its companion "reform" stigmatized in the public mind. The way they have been and are being used is destructive to almost all but a tiny few.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."