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 …

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 …

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 …

the crucial, but often ignored, role of productivity in the maintenance of natural capital sustainability. Olewiler …

In this chapter, Tony Fisher and Doug Hostland provide an historical perspective on trends in labour productivity …

cent of that in Ontario in 1960 to 86 per cent in 1999. He decomposes this change into three sources: productivity …

The purpose of this report is to shed light on the dynamics and determinants of productivity growth in nine selected … importance of productivity growth is reviewed, and observations are made on the contribution of natural resource industries to … aggregate productivity growth; brief summaries on productivity and its determinants are presented for each of the nine …

measurement of aggregate labour productivity growth in Canada and the United States. The paper examines all data sources for … appropriate for the calculation of aggregate labour productivity ?both from the perspective of the methodological merits of each … series and of cross-country comparability. It also assesses the sensitivity of Canada-U.S. aggregate labour productivity …