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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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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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Financial Development, the Structure of Capital Markets, and the Global Digital Divide
Yartey, Charles Amo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper examines the role of financial development and financial structure in explaining cross-country diffusion of information communication technology (ICT). Using panel data for 76 emerging and advanced countries for the period 1990-2003, the paper finds that credit and stock market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263968
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727800
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And Schumpeter Said, "This is How Thou Shalt Grow"; Further Quest for Economic Growth in Poor Countries
Beaugrand, Philippe - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
reverse this trend requires finding ways to raise total factor productivity in poor countries; in turn, this implies letting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825901
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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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You Say You Want a Revolution; Information Technology and Growth
Morsink, James; Haacker, Markus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
that IT is contributing to labor productivity growth through both increases in the levels of IT capital per worker and … total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the production of IT equipment. The main outstanding issue is whether IT is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769153
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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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