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# IPM Issue 30 Editor’s Overview

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# IPM Issue 30 Editor’s Overview

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Sharpe, Andrew. 2016. “Editor’s Overview.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 30 (Spring 2016): 1–3. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-30/

## Author:

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

## IPM Issue 30

Spring 2016 pp. 1–3

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The editorial overview for Issue 30 introduces eight articles on: GDP and productivity measurement in the digital economy; productivity trends and policies in Mexico; a Canada-Australia productivity comparison; U.S. agricultural productivity 1948-2013; productivity in Canadian freight railways; global productivity growth and aging; productivity convergence theory and evidence; and a review of Atkinson’s productivity strategy manifesto.

Cet aperçu éditorial pour le numéro 30 présente huit articles portant sur : la mesure du PIB et de la productivité dans l’économie numérique; les tendances et politiques de productivité au Mexique; une comparaison de la productivité entre le Canada et l’Australie; la productivité agricole américaine de 1948 à 2013; la productivité dans les chemins de fer de marchandises canadiens; la croissance de la productivité mondiale et le vieillissement; la convergence de productivité — théorie et données probantes; et une recension du manifeste de stratégie de productivité d’Atkinson.

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