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The objective of this report is to document China’s productivity performance since 1978 and determine its impact on … as well. Labour productivity is found to have had a strong negative effect on poverty in China, with productivity … poverty. The report finds that China has made substantial progress in economic development since economic reform started in …
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In this chapter, John Helliwell sets the scene for many of the papers that follow by providing an up-to-date and lucid survey of the literature on the impact of social capital on both the economy or economic performance and well-being. This latter term is closely related to the concept of social...
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first place in the United Nations' Human Development Index, other indices have produced much less brilliant results. Modern …
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This report presents new estimates of the levels and growth rates of labour, capital and multifactor productivity for … industry levels. Also, estimates of the sources of labour productivity growth (capital intensity, labour quality, and … multifactor productivity) are presented. Furthermore, this report examines the labour productivity gap between the provinces and …
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be likely to contribute to productivity growth in British Columbia: the underutilization of the skills of recent …
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software gap. About one-third of the gap can be assigned to differences in labour productivity, industry structure, and …
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The Canadian forest products sector has had an above-average productivity performance in the 2000-2012 period, driven … from strong productivity gains, the productivity performance of the paper manufacturing subsector has been far from … impressive, especially in the post-2008 period. This report provides a detailed analysis of output, input and productivity trends …
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current state of provincial differences in twenty-five economic variables related to income, productivity, the labour market …
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The objective of this report is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … affects aggregate productivity. The report sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil … and gas sector to aggregate labour productivity growth despite the very large fall in productivity experienced by the …
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Canada’s productivity performance reflects in large part our innovation record, both in terms of business sector R …
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