This 14th issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains five articles. Topics covered are recent productivity developments in the United States; lessons for Canada from international productivity experience; India’s...

Does the deepening of bilateral trade between Cameroon and Nigeria strengthen the links between their economic cycles in such a way as to eventually lead to a synchronous evolution? This is the question we attempt to answer here. To do this, two approaches are highlighted: the cycle approach on...

The intensification of international trade, reinforced by the interconnection of financial markets and the appearance of common economic shocks are the elements that contribute to explaining the co-movements of advanced and sub-Saharan economies. In this study, it is a question of measuring the...

The very uneven development of electronic trade (BtoC) arouses a lot of questions, and more particularly in the agro food sector. From a training course for agro food firms on marketing via Internet , realised within the European program Interreg3b AgroIntec , we try to understand why this new...

The first section of the article reviews general measurement problems associated with measuring sectoral total factor productivity. Secondly, the article argues that the production accounts in the present System of National Accounts (SNA) need to be extended somewhat in order to be suitable as a...

L’objectif de cette communication est de proposer un cadre d’analyse de l’évolution des relations partenariales. Ce cadre d’analyse est centré sur les dimensions interactives au sein de la relation modélisée comme système social complexe. Dans un premier temps nous proposons une...

Ce document expose les nouveaux travaux qui ont été menés sur l’évolution des exportations agroalimentaires de 69 pays entre 1996 et 2006 et cherche à répondre aux questions suivantes : les exportations agricoles au cours de cette période ont-elles davantage augmenté à la marge...

According to Statistics Canada productivity estimates, the rate of growth of real output per hour in the construction industry in Canada over the 1981-2006 period was 0.53 per cent per year, one-third of the business sector average. This article examines evidence for and against the hypothesis...

Presentation of the PLS regression