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 …

has actually performed quite well in terms of labour productivity growth. The author points to two factors that have … fostered productivity growth in Canada: a high level of human capital and low barriers to firm creation. The latter facilitates …

Innovation is widely recognized as a key ingredient of productivity success. This article by Someshwar Rao, Ashfaq … positive relationship between measures of fundamental innovation, labour productivity and GDP per capita across OECD countries …

The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications … for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …

based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment …This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … with the organization of productive activities. The results indicate that investment-specific technical change is the major …

There is ample evidence that investment in Information Technology (IT) boosted labour markets productivity in the USA …. In fact, conspicuous flows of investment in this sector enabled the US firms to record high rates of productivity growth … of the 1990s was not echoed in Europe owing to the fact that European firms have not adopted forward-looking investment …

There is ample evidence that investment in Information Technology (IT) boosted labour markets productivity in the USA …. In fact, conspicuous flows of investment in this sector enabled the US firms to record high rates of productivity growth … of the 1990s was not echoed in Europe owing to the fact that European firms have not adopted forward-looking investment …

productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the … average rate of developing countries. Previous studies concluded that SSA should increase investment in agricultural research … support services for raising agricultural productivity. This study introduces a new dimension to the puzzle of agricultural …