Weak business investment is threatening global growth, the OECD has warned, with corporate spending in most advanced economies failing to return to historic trends after the financial crisis and pandemic.
Net investment across the OECD nations has dropped from 2.5 per cent of GDP before the 2008 crisis to 1.6 per cent of GDP for the median country, with the pandemic delivering a further blow, according to the organisation’s figures.
If corporate spending on new projects and facilities does not pick up, countries will “not be able to sustain growth”, Álvaro Pereira, outgoing chief economist at the Paris-based organisation told the Financial Times.
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