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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. …

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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 …

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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. …

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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...

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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...

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Oversight Issues in Mobile Payments

Khiaonarong, Tanai - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

This paper examines oversight issues that underlie the potential growth and risks in mobile payments. International experience suggests that financial authorities can develop effective oversight frameworks for new payment methods to safeguard public confidence and financial stability by...

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Forecasting U.S. Investment

Rabanal, Pau; Lee, Jaewoo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

The driving force of U.S. economic growth is expected to rotate from the fiscal stimulus and inventory rebuilding in 2009 to private demand in 2010, with consumption and particularly investment expected to be important contributors to growth. The strength of U.S. investment will hence be a...

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It Framework Design Parameters

Laxton, Douglas; Freedman, Charles - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

This is the third chapter of a forthcoming monograph entitled "On Implementing Full-Fledged Inflation-Targeting Regimes: Saying What You Do and Doing What You Say." It examines a number of elements in the design of an inflation-targeting framework. These include the definition of the target...

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Iceland; Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes: Data Module, Response by the Authorities, and Detailed Assessments Using the Data Quality Assessment Framework

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on Data Module for Iceland highlights Data Module, response by the authorities, and detailed assessments using the data quality assessment framework. Icelandâ€™s macroeconomic statistics are generally of high quality and are adequate to...

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How Has the Globalization of Labor Affected the Labor Income Share in Advanced Countries?

Jaumotte, Florence; Tytell, Irina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

Labor markets around the world have become increasingly integrated over the last two decades, with the entry of China, India and the former Eastern bloc into the world trading system, the removal of restrictions on trade and capital flows, and rapid technological progress. At the same time, the...

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