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# IPM Issue 38 Editor’s Overview

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# IPM Issue 38 Editor’s Overview

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Sharpe, Andrew. 2020. “Editor’s Overview.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 38 (Spring 2020): 1–2. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-38/

## Author:

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

## IPM Issue 38

Spring 2020 pp. 1–2

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The editorial overview for Issue 38 introduces seven articles examining the productivity slowdown from multiple angles: cross-country differences in productivity responses (Smith); frontier-laggard dynamics in Portugal (Osterhold & Gouveia); the role of the ICT sector in the transatlantic slowdown (Gordon & Sayed); productivity convergence across industries in the U.S., Japan, and Germany (Baily, Bosworth & Doshi); the European productivity slowdown and the role of bubble sectors (Fernald & Inklaar); and two review articles on a book on government productivity (Drummond) and a comparative study of productivity institutions (O’Mahony).

Cet aperçu éditorial pour le numéro 38 présente sept articles examinant le ralentissement de la productivité sous plusieurs angles : les différences transnationales dans les réponses de productivité; la dynamique pointe-retardataires au Portugal; le rôle du secteur des TIC dans le ralentissement transatlantique; la convergence de la productivité entre les industries aux États-Unis, au Japon et en Allemagne; le ralentissement de la productivité européenne et le rôle des secteurs de bulle; et deux articles de recension sur un ouvrage sur la productivité gouvernementale et une étude comparative des institutions de productivité.

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