productivity slowdown. Since productivity growth is recognized as being by far the most important long-term source of sustainable … developments raise a number of issues related to the two-way linkages between productivity and well-being. First, does slower … productivity growth constitute a significant threat to the betterment of the well-being of the world's population, and, if so, by …

This eighth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains eight articles. Topics covered are: a progress report on endogenous growth theory; recent productivity developments in … (ICTs) on UK productivity growth; the choice of the business sector versus the total economy for assessing aggregate …

The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of … the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish …

This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa … productivity for improving living standards and quality of life. We will be publishing twice a year articles from leading … researchers on productivity issues, trends and developments in Canada and other countries. The Monitor will also serve as a …

Puzzles intrigue and motivate researchers and focus research effort, and the productivity area is fortunate in having … and briefly discusses what he sees as the ten most important productivity puzzles facing researchers in Canada and in … other countries. In terms of the international puzzles, he considers the causes of the post-1973 productivity slowdown that …

Since 2000, productivity growth in Canada and the United States have followed markedly different paths. In the second … article, Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards finds that the remarkable productivity growth … experienced in the United States in the past two years is most likely evidence of a post- 2000 productivity growth acceleration …

behind slow productivity growth in Canada in the second half of the 1990s, in marked contrast to the acceleration of … productivity in the United States, and discusses the prospects for trend productivity in Canada over the next decade or two. It … concludes that the balance of evidence now favours an acceleration of trend labour productivity growth to the 2-2.5 per cent per …