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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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Editor's Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 1-2
The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of the information and communications technology sector to...
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Productivity Growth in the OECD Area: Some Recent Findings
Pilat, Dirk - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 32-44
The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has in recent years devoted considerable resources to the study of productivity trends in the OECD area. In this article, Dirk Pilat, a senior economist at the OECD provides an overview of the key results of this research effort....
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La compétitivité de l'industrie d'habillement tunisienne. Atouts et limites (The tunisian clothing industry competitiveness : assets and limits)
FRIJA, Iheb - Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et … - 2008
calculated and compared with other competitor countries. In the aim of understanding the trade liberalization' effect on the … in this sector, the trade liberalization has been associated to a continuous decrease of the Tunisian clothing exports as …
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Gains À L'Échange De Services Pour Les Pays Africains : Mythe Ou Réalité? (Gains to Trade in Services for African Countries: Myths or Reality?)
Rabaud, Isabelle - 2016
English Abstract: Huge gains from increase in exports and growth are expected from liberalisation of trade in services in African countries. The size and the growth of tertiary sector and the breadth of existing barriers seems to justify this expectation. We analyze computable general...
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WTO negotiations in the field of agriculture : Negotiation strategies
Trouvé-Teychenné, Odile - 2001
Multilateral trade negotiations limited to agriculture started again in March 2000. Set out in Article 20 of the Agreement on Agriculture, they are among the WTOs built-in agenda commitments which Member countries entered into when signing the Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round...
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Financial Reforms in the MENA Region, a Comparative Approach: The Case of Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Egypt
Alouani, Ahmed - In: Panoeconomicus 55 (2008) 3, pp. 369-381
external components, it occurs in the final stages of the process of economic liberalization. In this work, and after listing …, briefly, the causes of financial liberalization, we are going to study in a second section financial development and bank … service, and so on. The third section will be subject to an assessment of financial liberalization since the start of reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008554115
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The continuity of the International Financial Institutions’ policies: The Example of Social Welfare (In French)
HARRIBEY, Jean-Marie - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2004
liberalization/privatization. These reforms are said to be undertaken to preserve the financial balance of the Health insurance funds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005546462
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Monopole et déreglementation des télécommunications concurrence et organisation industrielle (Monopoly and deregulation of telecommunications competition and industrial organizatio...
Kiambu, Jacques - Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et … - 2005
technology, structure organization and policy (deregulation and liberalization) affecting this sector intended to increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005184954
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La recherche de rente en Europe : facteurs institutionnels et politiques de la vitesse de réduction des protections nationales des marchés
François, Abel; Sauger, Nicolas - In: Revue d'économie politique 125 (2015) 1, pp. 119-144
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