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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-specific technical change, associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248234
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Financial Development, the Structure of Capital Markets, and the Global Digital Divide
Yartey, Charles Amo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
information communication technology (ICT). Using panel data for 76 emerging and advanced countries for the period 1990-2003, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263968
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Euro Area Policies; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
This Selected Issues paper on Euro Area Policies underlies global rebalancing of accounts. From a growth-accounting perspective, slower growth in the capital-labor ratio seems to be the main driver behind the deceleration in labor productivity. The increase in bilateral trade was accompanied by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825029
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United States; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
This Selected Issues paper examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in the recent …
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 approach. Both fiscal and monetary policies have had significant effects on the saving rate. The Canadian dollar’s appreciation was followed by a protracted period of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825117
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Does Technological Diffusion Explain Australia's Productivity Performance?
Tressel, Thierry - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
Technologies (ICTs). We show that reforms of both the labor and product markets since the early 1990s can explain Australia …-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 …
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
The contribution of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector to growth in Asian economies is clearly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768879
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You Say You Want a Revolution; Information Technology and Growth
Morsink, James; Haacker, Markus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
The information technology (IT) revolution has arrived, but how much will it change the world? It has been established … contributing to TFP growth more generally. Using data on IT expenditure and production for a broad sample of countries, we find a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769153
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ICT Equipment Investment and Growth in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries
Haacker, Markus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
to the data environment of low-income countries, we quantify the growth impacts of absorption of ICT equipment, finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470403
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ICT, Financial Inclusion, and Growth Evidence from African Countries
Kpodar, Kangni; Andrianaivo, Mihasonirina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This paper studies the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT), especially mobile phone rollout, on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019587