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In this chapter, Quentin Grafton, Stephen Knowles and Dorian Owen examine the implications for productivity arising from the level of social diversity along a variety of dimensions, including ethnic, linguistic and religious differences and inequalities between rich and poor. Their basic...
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discussions of long term economic growth". …
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eight articles on a wide range of productivity topics. There are the new economy and trend productivity growth in Canada … living, the postwar productivity convergence experience among OECD countries, price cap regulation and productivity growth …
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. In this article, as part of the symposium on total factor productivity, Timothy C. Sargent and Edgard R. Rodriquez of Finance Canada discuss the issue of the choice between labour and total factor productivity. They conclude that both measures have uses. For periods of less than a decade,...
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of ICTs and growth of the French economy over the past two decades; a structural perspective on the roots of the new …
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subject to strategic manipulation by regulated firms should be the productivity growth rate used to develop the appropriate …
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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 …
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while openness has increased. However, economic growth has been insufficient to make inroads into the high unemployment … argue that trade liberalization is pro-poor and pro-growth. This study investigates the short and long term effects of trade …
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In this paper, we discuss the relationship between productivity, accumulation and institutions. We start from the idea that accumulation and productivity are connected by complex non-linear relations, which are amplified or attenuated by the system of rules that affects trade, decisions and...
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Caribbean section of the "Global Research Project: Explaining Growth" of the Global Development Network (GDN), a research effort … falling behind. The growth record of Latin America in the recent past has been poor. For decades the average income per capita …
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