Asia has become the economic powerhouse of the world. This article provides a detailed discussion of trends in output, labour and capital inputs, and labour, capital and total factor productivity (TFP) in Asian countries since 1980. The author finds that TFP growth has been quite rapid in most...

Au-delà des réflexions sur le management à la japonaise , peut-on considérer qu'il y a un management asiatique, ou au contraire doit-on parler d'approches différenciées, peut- on en tirer certaines leçons? Telle est la problématique de cet article qui résulte de la session de 1992 du...

This tenth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the...