from a take-off in domestic productivity of the magnitude observed in some of these countries. …

labour productivity, which in turn is related to economic geography as well as structural policy factors. The small size and … drivers of prosperity – investment, skills and ideas – to New Zealand. The reforms of the 1980s and 1990s laid much of the … groundwork for creating this advantage and for a pick-up in productivity growth. But in recent years, New Zealand has lost ground …

productivity effects barely offset higher union compensation, and that unions are negatively related to investment in capital and R …This paper analyzes the economic impact of unions on productivity in the manufacturing sector across six Latin American … paper finds that unions have positive, but mostly small, effects on productivity, with the exception of Argentina, with a …

The study seeks to investigate empirically the direction and shape of causality among trade openness, investment and … openness, national income growth and total investment. Furthermore, empirical results of Granger causality confirm that there … exists unidirectional causality between economic growth and investment; between trade openness and economic growth; and …

especially the planners from the Central Planning Office argued that the only way out is by significant increase of investment … intensive, the uninterrupted growth requires permanently increasing share of investment in the National Income. The opposite … share of investment in National income is not necessary and would be in fact harmful. The further slowing down of the growth …