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The factors behind the emergence of the New Economy are still poorly understood. In this article, Pascal Petit from CEPREMAP and CNRS in France provides an institutional perspective on the developmental phases or roots of this New Economy. He analyzes the structural, institutional and...
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This Working Paper deals with the progresses, but also with the deficiencies, of the Cuban revolution in the economic field, until the recent de-dollarization. It underlines its economic challenges at the beginning of the XXIst century, as well as its internal forces and external opportunities...
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characteristics of the current start-up ICT because, as enterprises whose emergence is involved in a context of ruptures, they can … between an idealtype ICT start-up ante-bubble (before the Internet bubble burst) and a idealtype ICT start-up post …
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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 increased in Canada and conclude that in fact it has. If...
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Both ICT-producing and ICT-using industries have contributed disproportionately to labour productivity growth in the ….S. Conference Board compare Canada, the United States and Europe in terms of the contribution of ICT-producing and ICT …-using industries to productivity growth. In the 1995-2000 period, the contribution of ICT-producing industries to labour productivity …
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The ninth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles. Topics covered are: the magnitude of the Canada-U.S. productivity gap at the industry level; productivity puzzles facing researchers; the link between...
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the labour market privileges a shock of the application for a job following the diffusion of the ICT in the economy. Thus … the ICT, in particular with computer, and the level of wage? The object of this article is to try to answer partly this …
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This eighth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains eight articles. Topics covered are: a progress report on endogenous growth theory; recent productivity developments in Canada and the United States; monetary policy in...
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Since 1995, productivity growth has accelerated significantly in the United States. Information technology has always been thought to be the driving force behind this development. In this article by Kevin Stiroh of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York provides strong empirical support for this...
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