This report provides an assessment of human capital development in British Columbia. The province's performance is … be likely to contribute to productivity growth in British Columbia: the underutilization of the skills of recent …

concerned with productivity and competitiveness issues. Not surprisingly, formal education is the preferred and most … causal impact on productivity, as well as a more nuanced approach to policy in this area. In this chapter, Arthur Sweetman … the impact of education on earnings at the individual level and on productivity at the macroeconomic level, and on issues …

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

In this chapter by Janice Stein warns about the dangers of adopting a narrow conception of productivity and efficiency … efficiency or productivity of a public service requires a measurement of the value or utility generated by the service. However … ironically undermined the effectiveness and productivity of the public and voluntary sectors. She illustrates the perverse …

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

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 …

Quebec’s relative growth performance with Ontario has always been an issue of concern for economic historians. In his … started an upward climb, reaching 86 per cent in 1999, and exhibited a particularly strong performance in the 1975–85 period … cent of that in Ontario in 1960 to 86 per cent in 1999. He decomposes this change into three sources: productivity …

Investment is one of the main drivers of productivity growth, which is the key determinant of living standards in the … equipment and ICT investment. Going forward, a poor investment performance in BC would likely lead to below average growth in … labour productivity, as was the case in the last 25 years. Weak labour productivity growth in BC would in turn translate into …

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

; and price trends play a large role in the productivity performance of many natural resource industries by determining the …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 …