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. …

The contribution of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector to growth in Asian economies is clearly … evident from the expenditure side (net exports) and became particularly significant in the second half of the 1990s. This … paper employs an extension of the standard growth accounting framework, using estimates of stock of ICT capital (hardware …

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 quantify the growth impacts of absorption of ICT equipment, finding …

A new dataset on export sophistication reveals that in many countries the importance of modern services, and the … sophistication of manufactured and service exports, has increased over time. However, this trend was less pronounced in LICs …

from a take-off in domestic productivity of the magnitude observed in some of these countries. …

rates of productivity growth and, to a smaller degree, physical and human capital accumulation. Finally, economic freedom …

From its early post-war catch-up phase, Germany’s formidable export engine has been its consistent driver of growth …. But Germany has almost equally consistently run current account surpluses. Exports have powered the dynamic phases and …