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title: "IPM Issue 16 Editor’s Overview"
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# IPM Issue 16 Editor’s Overview

Canonical URL: https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-16/

# IPM Issue 16 Editor’s Overview

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Sharpe, Andrew. 2008. “Editor’s Overview.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 16 (Spring 2008): 1–2. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-16/

## Author:

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Andrew Sharpe
Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

## IPM Issue 16

Spring 2008 pp. 1–2

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The editorial overview for Issue 16 introduces two articles on Canadian business sector productivity performance and a three-article symposium on data requirements for better productivity measurement, covering productivity measurement problems, U.S. services data development, and international market services data in Europe.

Cet aperçu éditorial pour le numéro 16 présente deux articles sur la performance de productivité du secteur des entreprises canadien et un symposium en trois articles sur les exigences en matière de données pour une meilleure mesure de la productivité, portant sur les problèmes de mesure de la productivité, le développement des données sur les services aux États-Unis et les données sur les services marchands internationaux en Europe.

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