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Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 1-2
This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa-based Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS). The objective of the Monitor is to focus atttention on the importance of productivity for improving living standards and quality of...
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Productivity Trends in the Construction Sector in Canada: A Case of Lagging Technical Progress
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 52-68
The productivity performance of the construction sector in Canada over the last quarter century has been dismal, with output per hour lower in 2000 than in 1977. In this article Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards examines productivity trends in this sector and...
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The ICOP Manufacturing Database: International Comparisons of Productivity Levels
Ark, Bart van; Timmer, Marcel - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 44-51
overview of the ICOP manufacturing database. They note that the novelty of the ICOP approach is the derivation and use of … productivity in manufacturing. But when the more appropriate output per hour measure of productivity is used, the United States is … no longer the manufacturing productivity leader, being surpassed by the Netherlands and Belgium. The much greater number …
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Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 1-2
productivity levels in manufacturing; productivity trends in the construction sector in Canada; and a review of Angus Maddison …
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Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 1-2
contains six articles. Topics covered are: the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap; trends in Canadian living standards …
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Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 1-2
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...
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The Widening Canada-US Productivity Gap in Manufaturing
Bernstein, Jeffrey I.; Harris, Richard G.; Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 3-22
Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has … in US high-tech manufacturing sector. The Canadian high-sector is smaller than its US counterpart and experienced much …
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Industrialisation et transformation structurelle : l'Afrique sub-saharienne peut-elle se développer sans usines ?
Cadot, Olivier; de Melo, Jaime; Plane, Patrick; Wagner, … - 2015
Avec une croissance soutenue, une vague d'investissements directs étrangers sans précédent, et un net recul de la pauvreté, le bilan des quinze dernières années est largement positif pour l'Afrique sub-saharienne. Ce regain de croissance, qui s'est accompagné de réformes économiques...
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Asset divestment as a response to media attacks in stigmatized industries
Durand, Rodolphe; Vergne, Jean-Philippe - 2015
In stigmatized industries characterized by social contestation, hostile audiences, and distancing between industry insiders and outsiders, firms facing media attacks follow different strategies from firms in uncontested industries. Because firms avoid publicizing their tainted-sector membership,...
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Les PME de l’industrie manufacturière en France un positionnement intermédiaire par rapport à huit autres pays européens.
CAYSSIALS, J-L.; KREMP, E. - In: Bulletin de la Banque de France (2010) 180, pp. 49-63
Les PME de l’industrie manufacturière en France disposent d’un bon niveau de fonds propres, et sont faiblement endettées. Les délais de paiement pèsent davantage que dans les PMI allemandes et leur rentabilité est en retrait.
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