, as a micro-level institution, it fosters productivity in order to reduce poverty. The concepts of institutions …, productivity and poverty are reviewed to establish a framework of analysis, where institutions are linked to productivity and … poverty. This framework is applied to a comedor the author visited in 2001 and 2003. Through the diversity and intensity of …

. Breakdowns of enterprise spirit could thus explain that periods of sluggishness be imposed to French growth and, globally, that …

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 …

.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in … investment, education, and R&D in OECD countries accounting for the catch-up. The process of convergence seems to have ended in … the 1990s, reflecting slower growth in OECD countries, a diminishing of the forces behind the convergence process given …

Living Standards. It points out that there now appears to be a renaissance in productivity growth in the U.S. service sector …

This paper presents the concepts and mesures of growth and poverty, and the complex interrelations between distribution … and poverty reduction. Growth alone will not be able to eradicate poverty, and some specific actions must be directed …