This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on …, education, market efficiency, infrastructure, and institutions. Based on underlying proxies, the paper constructs indexes … Penn World Table, and assesses the pattern of productivity growth across regions and income groups over the same sample …

contains seven articles. Topics covered are the relationship between education, productivity and economic growth, new estimates …

that social policy and greater equality may actually contribute to higher productivity growth. Richard Harris surveys two … new endogenous growth theory that suggests that increases in inequality can hurt growth. …

of ICTs and growth of the French economy over the past two decades; a structural perspective on the roots of the new …

running from social conditions and factors to productivity growth. <p> The objective of the second issue of the Review of … between population, education, health and social divergence and productivity. In the fourth section, three papers address the …

.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in … investment, education, and R&D in OECD countries accounting for the catch-up. The process of convergence seems to have ended in … the 1990s, reflecting slower growth in OECD countries, a diminishing of the forces behind the convergence process given …