potential barriers to productivity growth and discussing policies that could enable faster growth. Given the increasing role of … countries with low-labour costs in several forest product markets, maintaining robust productivity growth is an imperative for …

. One approach sees economic growth leading to environmental degradation by imposing stresses on limited natural resources …. Economic growth, once a certain level is achieved, leads to a cleaner environment as the higher income shifts societal …. In addition, it is argued that economic growth is increasingly service-based, decoupling pollution from economic activity …

running from social conditions and factors to productivity growth. <p> The objective of the second issue of the Review of …

in which program spending was frozen in nominal terms, but not cut, would have produced more growth and employment and …

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 …

framework of a balanced budget. In their view, although the current growth recession will reduce the potential surplus somewhat …, the medium-term outlook is still for increasing surpluses. Concerned about lagging economic growth and emphasizing the … importance of efficiency and productivity growth, they argue that priority should be given to debt reduction and tax cuts …

, demographic structures, labour force participation, and the unemployment rate ?in the growth of living standards in Canada and in … pursued in terms of the five determinants of living standards growth for Canada to exceed US living standards by 2016. The key … conclusions of the paper are twofold. First, a focus on improving Canada’s productivity growth performance, and in particular …

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 …