.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in … the 1990s, reflecting slower growth in OECD countries, a diminishing of the forces behind the convergence process given …

Trend productivity growth is a crucial determinant of future living standards as well as fiscal balances. In this … article, Benoit Robidoux and Bing-Sun Wong from Finance Canada examine the issue of whether trend productivity growth has … point out that business sector output per hour growth in Canada accelerated 0.9 percentage points from 1.1 per cent per year …

Both ICT-producing and ICT-using industries have contributed disproportionately to labour productivity growth in the …-using industries to productivity growth. In the 1995-2000 period, the contribution of ICT-producing industries to labour productivity … growth was similar in Canada and the Europe, but only half that in the United State. In terms of the contribution of ICT …

reform as particularly important in fostering productivity growth: sharper competition; greater openness to trade, investment …Australia has historically been Canada's poorer cousin. But a pick-up in productivity growth in the 1990s has raised … growth. He first points out that during the first half of the 20th century Australia enjoyed one of the highest levels of …

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 …

developments assesses whether an acceleration of productivity growth, the touchstone of the New Economy, is likely to occur in … institutional changes such as product and labour market deregulation have served as catalysts for growth. He then looks at the role …

capital accumulation on productivity growth in Canada, differences between Gross Domestic Product and Net Domestic Product …, future productivity growth in Canada, and the OECD growth study. …

discussions of long term economic growth". …

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

contains seven articles. Topics covered are lessons for Canada from the U.S. growth resurgence; the factors explaining higher … productivity growth in Canada; the contribution of ICT-producing and using industries to productivity growth in Canada, the United …