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This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa-based Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS). The objective of the Monitor is to focus atttention on the importance of productivity for improving living standards and quality of...
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This paper examines whether patenting increases the private incentives to innovate in manufacturing. In order to study this issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented (product, process) and on the existence or not of a patent...
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Sur la décennie passée, la croissance de la productivité a souffert dans la zone euro d’une série d’ajustements sectoriels ; le caractère transitoire de ces ajustements permet d’envisager une accélération structurelle de la productivité.
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Cet article fournit une évaluation empirique de la relation entre le développement financier et la croissance économique, en prenant en compte l’instabilité financière. L’analyse porte sur un échantillon de 71 pays et couvre la période 1960-2004. Les résultats obtenus à l'aide d'une...
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En Turquie, dans la période 1994-2005 la croissance a été pro-pauvres en termes de croissance des revenus, mais pas en valeur absolue. Même en termes relatifs ce résultat est discutable pour les raisons suivantes : premièrement les ménages appartenant aux centiles les plus bas ont accru...
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Canada has not been alone in making substantial progress towards price stability. Average inflation in the industrialized countries fell markedly in the first half of the 1990s, the third such episode of broad-based disinflation in the last 20 years. By the latter part of 1994, inflation in many...
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From a voluntary production, free software fulfil to be broadly diffused on the market side. The commercial success of these software is attented by an active participation in their development from a large number of firms. We explain this participation by the opportunities of free software...
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