 Productivity growth is a matter of concern. It's an important source of growth, but it's important for us to understand what's been happening at different sector levels. Has it been growing faster? Has it been growing slower? And what are the things we need to be doing in order to enhance productivity growth in different sectors? What makes it important in South Africa is our ability to turn that productivity growth into sustaining growth that creates jobs and creates opportunities and enables us to compete in the world economy. My research tries to measure productivity using a different approach than what other economists are doing. UNU-Wider has produced data snapshots of the South African economy over the past 20 years. We use this data to identify what's been happening to productivity over that period. We find different productivities in different sectors. We find that in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, construction, there's been higher productivity growth. Although this has been accompanied by weak employment growth, whereas in services sectors we find that there's stronger employment growth but fairly weak productivity growth. However, in some extractive sectors such as agriculture and mining, we find both weak growth in productivity and employment. It's important for policymakers to take this into account because productivity growth and employment growth may be two sides of the same coin.