The foundation for real income growth is productivity growth. This basic principle of economics is well illustrated in … with the United States can be accounted for by our slower labour productivity growth. In the first half of the period our … falling employment-population ratio contributed to the decline in our standard of living relative to that in the United States …

behind slow productivity growth in Canada in the second half of the 1990s, in marked contrast to the acceleration of … concludes that the balance of evidence now favours an acceleration of trend labour productivity growth to the 2-2.5 per cent per …

productivity growth, capital per worker and the skills level of the workforce as represented by educational attainment, have … improved markedly in the construction sector in recent years. He explains the stagnation of labour productivity growth despite … problems which underestimate productivity growth. …

the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish …

productivity growth in Ontario, productivity trends in the forest products sector in Canada, and the influence of natural resource …

growth and levels at the market sector, two-digit, and three-digit NAICS industry level for the Canadian provinces during the … growth in Canada after 2000. It identifies manufacturing as the sector that has accounted for most of the slowdown. Within …’s share of the sector’s fall-off in labour productivity growth. Ontario was the province that contributed proportionately the …

growth in Canada; the sensitivity of estimates of Canada-U.S. capital intensity and multifactor productivity gaps to … growth in India. …

. One approach sees economic growth leading to environmental degradation by imposing stresses on limited natural resources …. Economic growth, once a certain level is achieved, leads to a cleaner environment as the higher income shifts societal …. In addition, it is argued that economic growth is increasingly service-based, decoupling pollution from economic activity …

running from social conditions and factors to productivity growth. <p> The objective of the second issue of the Review of …