eight articles on a wide range of productivity topics. There are the new economy and trend productivity growth in Canada … living, the postwar productivity convergence experience among OECD countries, price cap regulation and productivity growth …This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa …

.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 …

Living Standards. It points out that there now appears to be a renaissance in productivity growth in the U.S. service sector … large productivity gains in a wide range of service industries. …

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 …