, as a micro-level institution, it fosters productivity in order to reduce poverty. The concepts of institutions …, productivity and poverty are reviewed to establish a framework of analysis, where institutions are linked to productivity and … the comedor’s activities and the practices it instills in women working there, productivity leads to key poverty …

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 1990s; the role of population growth in shaping productivity growth …

The ninth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the magnitude of the Canada-U.S. productivity gap at the industry level …; productivity puzzles facing researchers; the link between technology use, human capital, productivity and wages; the effect of …