The objective of this report is to document China’s productivity performance since 1978 and determine its impact on … poverty. The report finds that China has made substantial progress in economic development since economic reform started in … 1978. Strong economic growth has been fuelled by rapid productivity growth, and has been accompanied by impressive declines …

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 …

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, Graves and Jenkins explore the attitudes of Canadians to productivity. The distinction between our … Graves and Jenkins data is relatively aware of the terms of the productivity debate. Canadians appear to have a broadly … optimistic view of the economy, but give the country only a lukewarm overall rating of its productivity. Moreover, although …

In this chapter, Joseph Heath argues that we tend to overestimate the contribution that further productivity growth … will make to the welfare of Canadians. Traditionally, productivity growth was thought to contribute to increased leisure …, productivity growth has contributed less and less to the well-being of Canadians. The key puzzle for Heath is why further economic …

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 …

third section looks at the relative importance of the determinants of living standards ?productivity, working time … conclusions of the paper are twofold. First, a focus on improving Canada’s productivity growth performance, and in particular …, eliminating the Canada-US productivity gap, is by far the most important and effective way to attain the objective of Canadian …

productivity are essential. According to official estimates of productivity produced by Statistics Canada, labour productivity in … year between 1994 and 2003. Estimates of productivity produced by the CSLS, based on official Statistics Canada employment … and real GDP figures, show that labour productivity in the health care and social assistance industry declined by 0.69 per …

The Canadian service sector has performed well in recent years in terms of labour and multifactor productivity growth … sector. Service sector labour productivity growth has also shown a marked acceleration in both Canada and the United States … Canadian success story. The sources of the acceleration in service sector labour productivity growth were different in the two …

This paper explores the linkages between productivity and social development from the perspective of synthesizing the … exploring the linkages between productivity and social well-being involving researchers from around the world and culminating in … the edited volume Toward a Social Understanding of Productivity. Contributions discuss both linkages from productivity to …