is explained more by a decline in productivity rather than a lack of investment. Second, tourism has been a significant … contributor to higher growth (through both capital accumulation and productivity) and lower output volatility, and in man …

supply factors such as productivity gains, materialized after long-fought restructuring efforts during the lost decade …

This paper seeks to investigate the transmission mechanisms linking productivity to the real exchange rate in the … former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. At first glance, the stylized facts-low labor productivity growth and a trend real …

This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States. …

analyses of public capital productivity have generally been limited to the official capital stock estimates available in a …

productivity growth in the tradable goods sector in Australia, New Zealand, and their major trading partners accounts for a …

relief, would depend on a recipient country's initial economic conditions and level of total factor productivity. …

(FDI) between 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to substantial productivity … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for import-related spillovers, but it …

but not by financial reforms or productivity gains. …