article concludes that the book will be required reading for all economists interested in long-run economic growth trends and …

the macroeconomic perspective in the analysis of productivity growth. He believes that the golden age of productivity … growth during the 1945-73 period was in large part due to the solid macroeconomic performance of the period, a theme not …

; the impact of economic reform on British productivity growth; productivity and policy reform in Australia; the measurement …

the Bank of Canada compares sources of recent productivity growth in Canada and the United States. Macklem sees aggregate … labour productivity growth in Canada advancing at around a 2 per cent average annual rate in the medium term. This view is … spillovers from rapid and sustained U.S. productivity growth, and the significant gap between Canadian and U.S. productivity …

productivity growth in Ontario, productivity trends in the forest products sector in Canada, and the influence of natural resource …

. It also looks at the key drivers of productivity in the sector, investigating potential barriers to productivity growth … and discussing policies that could enable faster growth. Given the increasing role of countries with low-labour costs in … several forest product markets, maintaining robust productivity growth is an imperative for the Canadian forest products …

This article addresses the question of why productivity growth in Indian manufacturing was slow in the pre …-reform period and analyzes how economic reforms in the 1990s accelerated productivity growth. The answer lies in two subtle but … important distortion-inefficiency mechanisms, which affected productivity growth by distorting intermediate input allocation …

growth and levels at the market sector, two-digit, and three-digit NAICS industry level for the Canadian provinces during the … growth in Canada after 2000. It identifies manufacturing as the sector that has accounted for most of the slowdown. Within …’s share of the sector’s fall-off in labour productivity growth. Ontario was the province that contributed proportionately the …

This study investigates the impact of the current financial crisis on Canada’s potential GDP growth. Using a simple … accounting framework to decompose trend GDP growth into changes in capital, labour services, and total factor productivity, we … find a sizeable drop in Canadian potential growth rate in the short term. The estimated decline of about 1 percentage point …

growth in Canada; the sensitivity of estimates of Canada-U.S. capital intensity and multifactor productivity gaps to … growth in India. …