The issue of sustainability of natural capital and implications for economic growth ranks high in the interests of both …

Quebec’s relative growth performance with Ontario has always been an issue of concern for economic historians. In his …, employment and the demographic structure, and finds that faster growth in output per worker in Quebec was the most important … Ontario, up from 83 per cent in 1954. Faster growth in the working age population accounted for 35 per cent of the decline in …

. Previous literature and empirical work provides a strong consensus that growth reduces poverty, and several recent studies have … also found that the higher is income inequality within a country the more limited is the impact of growth on reducing … poverty. But in dynamic economies most economic growth comes from productivity growth, and few studies have tested the …

that social policy and greater equality may actually contribute to higher productivity growth. Richard Harris surveys two … new endogenous growth theory that suggests that increases in inequality can hurt growth. …

Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … total population. Labour productivity is determined by within-industry productivity growth rates and inter-sectoral shifts …

significant margin of error associated with productivity growth rates, even at the aggregate level. Sharpe identifies two … OECD productivity levels toward the US level; the post-1995 acceleration in labour productivity growth in the United States …

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 …

, 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 …