Editor’s Overview

This eighth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains eight articles. Topics covered are: a progress report on endogenous growth theory; recent productivity developments in Canada and the United States; monetary policy in the new economy; the effect of information and communications technologies (ICTs) on UK productivity growth; the choice of the business sector versus the total economy for assessing aggregate productivity trends; the measurement of productivity growth in services industries; and a review article of a recent book, Why Economies Grow.