Both ICT-producing and ICT-using industries have contributed disproportionately to labour productivity growth in the 1990s. In this article, Bart van Ark, Robert Inklaar from the University of Groningen and Robert H. McGuckin of the U.S. Conference Board compare Canada, the United States and...

With market services accounting for an increasing share of GDP as well as for differences in productivity growth performance across countries, the need for accurate measures of services output is becoming ever more important. In this article we first provide an international comparative...

Il y a quelques années un consensus s?est crée dans la communauté du développement autour de l?idée de fixer un seuil d?environ un 1 dollar par jour à l?échelle mondiale comme parité du pouvoir d?achat. Cette initiative est devenue l?axe central du premier programme intitulé ?Objectifs...