; the impact of economic reform on British productivity growth; productivity and policy reform in Australia; the measurement …The fifth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap; trends in Canadian living standards …

The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications … for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …

.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 … the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States, and perhaps most important, the acceleration of productivity …

In this article, as part of the symposium on total factor productivity, Richard G. Lipsey of Simon Fraser University … factor productivity. They conclude that "the degree of confusion surrounding TFP, particularly the assumption that low TFP … discussions of long term economic growth". …