In early 2003, the OECD released a major report entitled The Sources of Growth in OECD Countries. In the seventh and … Economic Advisers reviews the report. Baily notes that key findings include: the diversity in GDP per capita growth across OECD … countries, largely reflecting differences in labour utilization; the importance for growth of exposure to international trade …

the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish …

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 …

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 …

other OECD countries increased in the 1990s after falling up to then, reflecting the rebound in U.S. productivity growth, a … phenomenon not observed elsewhere; divergences in productivity growth performance are not due to different measurement techniques … States enjoying strong growth in both productivity and the employment rate while many European countries experiencing limited …

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 …

The foundation for real income growth is productivity growth. This basic principle of economics is well illustrated in … with the United States can be accounted for by our slower labour productivity growth. In the first half of the period our … of productivity growth in the United States after 1995 was responsible for our relative deterioration in living standards …

article concludes that the book will be required reading for all economists interested in long-run economic growth trends and …