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 …

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 …

productivity growth in the United States after 1995. In this article, Dale W. Jorgenson of Harvard University, Mun S. Ho from … Resources for the Future, and Kevin J. Stiroh of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York provide a detailed account of this growth … growth, and comment on lessons for Canada. They conclude that the U.S. productivity revival is likely to remain intact for …

of ICTs and growth of the French economy over the past two decades; a structural perspective on the roots of the new …

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 …