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Does Technological Diffusion Explain Australia's Productivity Performance?
Tressel, Thierry - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
-factor productivity (MFP) in a panel of industries in 15 OECD countries over the period 1980 to 2003, with a special focus on Australia … productivity best practices over the past 16 years, and have benefited from the diffusion of Information and Communication …'s productivity performance and adoption of ICTs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768866
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Information Technology and Productivity Growth in Asia
Lee, Il Houng; Khatri, Yougesh - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
in Asia during the 1990s is found to be mainly from capital deepening. Total factor productivity (TFP) is also decomposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768879
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ICT Equipment Investment and Growth in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries
Haacker, Markus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
While production of ICT equipment plays a subordinate role for economic growth in most of these countries, they do benefit from capital deepening arising from falling prices of ICT equipment. Adapting established growth accounting approaches to the data environment of low-income countries, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470403
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Tales From Two Neighbors; Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States
Cerisola, Martin D.; Chan-Lau, Jorge A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248234
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Emerging Markets in Transition: Growth Prospects and Challenges
Cubeddu, Luis M.; Culiuc, Alexander; Fayad, Ghada; Gao, Yuan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
After a short-lived slowdown in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis and a swift rebound, emerging markets (EM) are now entering a period of slower growth. In fact, growth is now lower than the post-crisis peak of 2010-11, as well as the rates seen in the decade before the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878427
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Euro Area Policies; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
-accounting perspective, slower growth in the capital-labor ratio seems to be the main driver behind the deceleration in labor productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825029
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United States; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
acceleration of labor productivity growth in the United States. The analysis reveals that the increase of total factor productivity …€œgeneral purpose technology.†The paper investigates whether the productivity boom may have dampened employment in recent years. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825041
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Canada; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
This paper explores the factors that have led to a Canada-U.S. productivity gap using a sectoral growth accounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825117
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Botswana; Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes—Data Module—Response by the Authorities—Update
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
This report on the Observance of Standards and Codes for Botswana highlights the Data Module and response by the authorities. National accounts are computed on an enterprise basis and where a full set of accounts is compiled. Data on financial accounts are captured but not fully analyzed because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825225
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Lesotho; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003
This paper examines Lesotho’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) Progress Report for the period between January and December 2002. The achievements demonstrate that the government of Lesotho has reaffirmed its commitment to a highly participatory approach and process of preparing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825251