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, with particular emphasis on his estimates of population, real GDP, and real GDP per capita for very long periods, going …
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Labour productivity in the U.S. non-farm business sector grew two and a half per cent per year during the 1995-2005 period, nearly double its growth rate over the previous two decades. Services sector labour productivity (LP) and multifactor productivity (MFP) grew more rapidly and substantially...
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Real gross domestic product (GDP) fails to account for the trading gains and losses that result from changes in the … enjoyed vast improvements in its terms of trade over recent years and there is a growing suspicion that real GDP has done an … cent of GDP between 2002 and 2005. …
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replace GDP as a measure of economic growth for a number of purposes. The key difference between GDP and NDP is depreciation … depreciation in GDP has increased in most OECD countries and GDP growth now exceeds NDP growth. Spant points out that this means … that the use of GDP leads to the overestimation of real output growth as well as the potential for noninflationary real …
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fixed capital formation in software, ceteris paribus, and this automatically produces a higher measure of GDP in recent …
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While Canada's economic record over the past decade or so is enviable, GDP per capita remains distinctly below US … political economy hurdles standing in the way of reform. A related issue is whether GDP is a reasonable proxy for well … other indicators need to be considered as well alongside GDP. …
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Dirk Pilat and Paul Schreyer of the OECD discuss the new OECD Productivity Database. The database covers 26 OECD countries for labour productivity estimates, as well as 14 countries for multifactor productivity estimates. While the database represents the most comparable productivity estimates...
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Sur la décennie passée, la croissance de la productivité a souffert dans la zone euro d’une série d’ajustements sectoriels ; le caractère transitoire de ces ajustements permet d’envisager une accélération structurelle de la productivité.
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of the services sector in GDP and its importance as a contributor to recent productivity advance justifies a further …
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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...
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