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Ouverture, vulnérabilité et développement

GUILLAUMONT, Patrick - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2001

This paper gives a conceptual overview of the openness and vulnerability, sharing which in both cases respectively … depends on economic policy and on structural factors, independent from policy. It focuses on openness policy, proposed to be … measured by the residual of an openness function estimated only from structural factors, and on structural vulnerability …

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La politique de compétitivité dans le cadre de la mondialisation.

HENNER, Henri-François - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 1997

Economies are open to international competition, and must be able to sell their products on the external markets. This paper goes back to the definition of competitivity (the ability to sell one's production at a good reward), builds a synthetic index of competitivity and gives some indications...

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Future Productivity Growth in Canada: Comparing to the United States

Macklem, Tiff - In: International Productivity Monitor 7 (2003) Fall, pp. 50-57

In this second contribution to the Symposium included in this volume on Future Productivity in Canada, Tiff Macklem of the Bank of Canada compares sources of recent productivity growth in Canada and the United States. Macklem sees aggregate labour productivity growth in Canada advancing at...

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The Roots of the New Economy: An Institutional Perspective

Petit, Pascal - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 39-54

The factors behind the emergence of the New Economy are still poorly understood. In this article, Pascal Petit from CEPREMAP and CNRS in France provides an institutional perspective on the developmental phases or roots of this New Economy. He analyzes the structural, institutional and...

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Système d'action agile et dispositif interculturel numérique : le cas du MOOC Pas à Pas du projet ECO

Bossu, Adeline - 2020

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Measuring Productivity Performance by Industry in China, 1980-2005

Wu, Harry X. - In: International Productivity Monitor 15 (2007) Fall, pp. 55-74

Using the author’s recently constructed data set, this article measures the productivity performance of China’s 19 manufacturing industries, four mining industries, plus utilities, over the reform period 1980-2005. The approach is based on neoclassical assumptions on institutional settings...

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Productivity Trends in the Construction Sector in Canada: A Case of Lagging Technical Progress

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 52-68

The productivity performance of the construction sector in Canada over the last quarter century has been dismal, with output per hour lower in 2000 than in 1977. In this article Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards examines productivity trends in this sector and...

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India: Asia’s Next Productivity Success Story

Mukherji, Joydeep - In: International Productivity Monitor 14 (2007) Spring, pp. 38-52

India has created the basic rules of modern economic and political life. While the country’s institutional framework needs strengthening, it will allow India to prosper without drastic changes. Gradual economic reform has transformed India, putting it on a much faster growth path. Economic...

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The Importance of Innovation for Productivity

Rao, Someshwar; Ahmad, Ashfaq; Horsman, William; … - In: International Productivity Monitor 2 (2001) Spring, pp. 11-18

Innovation is widely recognized as a key ingredient of productivity success. This article by Someshwar Rao, Ashfaq Ahmad, William Horsman, and Phaedra Kaptein-Russell of Industry Canada provides support for this view by finding a strong positive relationship between measures of fundamental...

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Estimating Potential Output with a Production Function for France, Germany and Italy.

Baghli, M.; Cahn, C.; Villetelle, J-P. - Banque de France - 2006

This paper discusses the supply conditions for economic growth in terms of potential GDP estimated by the production function approach for France, Germany and Italy for the 1986:2003 period. The aim of this study is twofold: first, we keep a consistent framework as regards national account...

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