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. …

collapsing investment and shrinking employment. Sharp declines in productivity, reflecting in part transition-related factors …

used determinants of total factor productivity, a measure of the effect of labor reallocation and an index of economic … suggest that growth will depend, to a large extent, on educational investments and productivity gains in agriculture. …

Italy’s deep-rooted structural problems resulted in an unsatisfactory productivity performance and a dismal growth … decline in output is mainly accounted for by a collapse in productivity; in the medium term, employment and capital are also …

have generated productivity gains, while lack of exit of unviable enterprises constituted a drag on efficiency. … indicate that declines in factor inputs and productivity were both important determinants of the output fall. The contribution … of the productivity drop was critical, but smaller than previously reported. Possible causes of the reduction in …

-term potential estimates have risks on both sides: productivity gains and investment could be volatile, but determined reforms could … sustain strong productivity growth. …

provides evidence of a significant and negative relationship between total public debt and productivity growth. Looking at the … specific channels through which high debt affects productivity growth and the allocation of resources in Jamaica, the study … excessively on a few maturing sectors with limited scope for productivity growth. Furthermore, public investment has been crowded …

in Asia during the 1990s is found to be mainly from capital deepening. Total factor productivity (TFP) is also decomposed …

This paper emphasizes the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) developments in the nontradables sector to …

productivity, and than uses a panel regression framework to analyze the growth impact of changes in various factors. Finally …