activity, an advanced export structure and a large domestic market. However, the rapid growth in world trade in this period did … uses the Schumpeterian model of innovation-diffusion as a framework for the study of "why growth rates differ" between … countries, while chapter 3 extends the analysis to include international trade - or "competitiveness" - as well. The main …

.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in … the 1990s, reflecting slower growth in OECD countries, a diminishing of the forces behind the convergence process given …

they have played significant roles in the region's slow and episodic economic growth. Results from cross …-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital … African countries to assimilate and effectively use knowledge and technology. Contrary to the views held by many analysts, the …

(TFP) growth, thereby reflecting limited potential for long-term growth. Examines the validity of this statement for the … services sector, which is an important engine of growth for Singapore. This is done using panel data with a stochastic frontier … model, which, unlike the conventional growth accounting model used by previous studies, not only decomposes output growth …

the macroeconomic perspective in the analysis of productivity growth. He believes that the golden age of productivity … growth during the 1945-73 period was in large part due to the solid macroeconomic performance of the period, a theme not …

discussions of long term economic growth". …

; the impact of economic reform on British productivity growth; productivity and policy reform in Australia; the measurement …

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

Major European countries, unlike the United States, did not experience an acceleration in labour productivity growth in …-Marseilles II, Jacques Mairesse of INSEE-CREST, and Yusef Kocoglu of the University of Aix-Marseilles provide a detailed growth … accounting of the impact of diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on economic growth in France over the …