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Review Article on The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective by Angus Maddison
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 69-78
This is a review article by Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards of Angus Maddison's path-breaking new book, The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective. The article summarizes Maddison's key findings in a number of areas, with particular emphasis on his estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518964
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Un renouveau de l'économie du développement ?.
Herrera, Rémy - Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Paris 1 … - 2005
This paper aims to show how the neo-classical current, which has yet absorbed development as one of its components, is …-liberalism on the policies of development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797804
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Future Productivity Growth in Canada: Comparing to the United States
Macklem, Tiff - In: International Productivity Monitor 7 (2003) Fall, pp. 50-57
In this second contribution to the Symposium included in this volume on Future Productivity in Canada, Tiff Macklem of 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650252
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Towards an other development (In French)
BERR, Eric - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2004
Starting from a definition of the concept of development centered on the satisfaction of the essential needs, health …, education, feeding, we show that the present pattern of development, while trying to impose Western values all over the world …, competition and technical progress must be questioned. The other development wants, starting from the current situation, to take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005395067
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Real GDP, Real GDI and Trading Gains: Canada, 1981-2005
Kohli, Ulrich - In: International Productivity Monitor 13 (2006) Fall, pp. 46-56
Real gross domestic product (GDP) fails to account for the trading gains and losses that result from changes in the terms of trade and in the real exchange rate (the price of tradables relative to the price of nontradables). Canada has enjoyed vast improvements in its terms of trade over recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481857
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Les conséquences économiques de la croissance démographique : 35 ans de débat entre orthodoxie et relativisme
Rougier, Eric - Groupe d'Economie du Développement de l'Université … - 1999
field associates population studies and economic growth and development theory. That thoeretical corpus has been built by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005488100
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India: Productivity and Sustainable Consumption in OECD Countries: 1980-2005
Baker, Dean; Rosnick, David - In: International Productivity Monitor 15 (2007) Fall, pp. 41-54
Productivity growth is the main long-run determinant of living standards. However, there are some distinctions between productivity growth as conventionally measured and the potential of the economy to raise living standards. Specifically, insofar as the share of depreciation in output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481852
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Le développement de l'humain comme préalable au développement économique : l'apport de l'analyse en composantes principales
Combarnous, François - Groupe d'Economie du Développement de l'Université … - 2003
durable et profitable. This article explores the direction of the causality between economic development and humanity … development — human development accompanied by demographic transition — within the global process of development. At first, it … develops — through principal components analysis — a synthetic indicator of development including these three fundamental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005702962
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Determinants of Trends in Living Standards in Canada and the United States, 1989-2000
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 2 (2001) Spring, pp. 3-10
The foundation for real income growth is productivity growth. This basic principle of economics is well illustrated in this article by Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards on the determinants of trends in living standards in Canada in the 1990s. He shows that over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518960
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Product Market Regulation and Productivity Convergence: OECD Evidence and Implications for Canada
Conway, Paul; Nicoletti, Giuseppe - In: International Productivity Monitor 15 (2007) Fall, pp. 3-24
In this article we investigate the effect of product market regulation on the international diffusion of productivity shocks. The results indicate that regulations that restrict competition slow the process of adjustment through which best practice production techniques diffuse across borders...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518988