--- canonical_url: "https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-36/global-and-regional-productivity-and-economic-growth-the-fifth-world-klems-conference/" title: "Global and Regional Productivity and Economic Growth: The Fifth World KLEMS Conference" author: name: "CSLS" url: "https://csls.ca/author/cslc/" date_published: "2026-07-13T07:52:46+00:00" date_modified: "2026-07-13T07:52:46+00:00" post_type: "ipm" summary: "" ipm_issue_period: - "Spring 2019" ipm_keyword: - "EU KLEMS" - "global production account" - "Japan" - "Latin America" - "Norway" - "Penn World Table" - "productivity" - "UK" - "United States" - "World KLEMS" ipm_research_theme: - "Measurement and methodology" ipm_country_focus: - "Europe" - "International" - "Japan" - "Latin America" - "United States" featured_image: "https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IPM_50_banner.webp" status: "publish" --- # Global and Regional Productivity and Economic Growth: The Fifth World KLEMS Conference Canonical URL: https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-36/global-and-regional-productivity-and-economic-growth-the-fifth-world-klems-conference/ # Global and Regional Productivity and Economic Growth: The Fifth World KLEMS Conference [Download full PDF article](https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IPM-Issue-36-1-Jorgenson.pdf) Cite this article × Cite this article as: Jorgenson, Dale. 2019. “Global and Regional Productivity and Economic Growth: The Fifth World KLEMS Conference.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 36 (Spring 2019): 1–6. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-36/global-and-regional-productivity-and-economic-growth-the-fifth-world-klems-conference/ ## Author: - Dale Jorgenson Department of Economics, Harvard University ## IPM Issue 36 Spring 2019 pp. 1–6 ## Related IPM articles [The Relationship between Efficiencies Defenses for Mergers and TFP Growth Robin Shaban Fall 2025 | IPM Issue 49 | pp. 82–102](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-49/the-relationship-between-efficiencies-defenses-for-mergers-and-tfp-growth/) [Adult Skills and Productivity: New Evidence from PIAAC 2023 Dan Andrews, Balázs Égert, Christine de La Maisonneuve Fall 2025 | IPM Issue 49 | pp. 41–63](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-49/adult-skills-and-productivity-new-evidence-from-piaac-2023/) [The Potential Impact of Pro-competitive Regulatory Reforms on Productivity and Growth in Canada Gilbert Cette, Jimmy Lopez, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Océane Vernerey Fall 2025 | IPM Issue 49 | pp. 3–40](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-49/the-potential-impact-of-pro-competitive-regulatory-reforms-on-productivity-and-growth-in-canada/) [ONS Response to ‘Are UK Regional Productivity Disparities Really Narrowing?’ Richard Prothero Spring 2025 | IPM Issue 48 | pp. 85–89](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-48/ons-response-to-are-uk-regional-productivity-disparities-really-narrowing/) [New Measures of Public Service Productivity: Lessons and Results from the United Kingdom Richard Heys Spring 2025 | IPM Issue 48 | pp. 90–114](https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-48/new-measures-of-public-service-productivity-lessons-and-results-from-the-united-kingdom/) [De-industrialization and the Great Productivity Slowdown: What Comes Next? 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The proposed metric is based on the economic valuation of productive services provided by a set of assets that incorporate knowledge, specifically human capital and information and communication technologies (ICT). Rather than using a single indicator to measure knowledge intensity, we follow an economic approach rooted in a growth accounting methodology, determining the contribution of each individual asset according to the prices of the services they provide. This methodology is applied to four Latin-American (LA) countries, namely Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, taking the United States and Spain as benchmarks for the period 2000-2016. Cet article propose de mesurer l’intensité de la connaissance des économies avec une approche alternative à celles fondées sur l’agrégation des industries selon leurs dépenses en R-D ou la qualification de la main-d’œuvre. La mesure proposée est fondée sur la valorisation économique des services productifs fournis par un ensemble d’actifs incorporant des connaissances, notamment le capital humain et les technologies de l’information et des communications (TIC). Plutôt que d’utiliser un seul indicateur pour mesurer l’intensité de la connaissance, nous suivons une approche économique ancrée dans une méthodologie de comptabilité de la croissance. Cette méthodologie est appliquée à quatre pays d’Amérique latine — le Brésil, le Chili, la Colombie et le Mexique — en prenant les États-Unis et l’Espagne comme points de référence pour la période 2000-2016. [Download full PDF](https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IPM-Issue-36-1-Jorgenson.pdf)