Editor’s Overview

This 13th issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains five articles. In contrast to the last issue on the Boskin Commission Report after a decade, this issue has a strong Canadian flavour. Topics covered are the benchmarking of Canadian economic performance, policies for improving productivity growth in Canada, Canada-U.S. differences in hours worked, the impact of terms of trade on Canada, and the measurement of government output and productivity.