that social policy and greater equality may actually contribute to higher productivity growth. Richard Harris surveys two …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of … productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social progress and in terms of understanding the feedback mechanisms …

In this chapter, William Watson challenges Heath's interpretation of the benefits of productivity growth, but agrees … productivity growth. Watson tackles Heath's assessment of the social benefits of productivity growth directly, starting with the … believes that the case for higher productivity would remain compelling. Without powerful analytical guidance, Watson concludes …

The objective of this report is to document China’s productivity performance since 1978 and determine its impact on … 1978. Strong economic growth has been fuelled by rapid productivity growth, and has been accompanied by impressive declines … in the incidence of poverty. Productivity performance has not been uniform across the agricultural and industrial sectors …

poverty. But in dynamic economies most economic growth comes from productivity growth, and few studies have tested the … relationships between productivity growth, poverty and inequality. The present study uses several sources of international data on … labour productivity, poverty and income inequality, and finds that across the developing countries for which data are …

-run productivity growth rates using elements of the FOCUS macroeconometric model to conduct simulations on a 'base-case' projection of … points out changes in productivity growth rates can occur for a variety of reasons and can have many different possible …