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# IPM Issue 4 Editor’s Overview

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# IPM Issue 4 Editor’s Overview

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Sharpe, Andrew. 2002. “Editor’s Overview.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 14 (Spring 2002): 1–2. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-4/

## Author:

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

## IPM Issue 4

Spring 2002 pp. 1-2

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The editorial overview for Issue 4 introduces five articles covering: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion of ICTs and growth of the French economy over the past two decades; a structural perspective on the roots of the New Economy; and a review of a recent NBER volume on new developments in productivity analysis.

L’aperçu éditorial du numéro 4 présente cinq articles portant sur : les récentes évolutions de la productivité aux États-Unis et au Canada et leurs implications pour les écarts de productivité et de revenu entre le Canada et les États-Unis; l’importance des compétences pour l’innovation et la productivité; la diffusion des technologies de l’information et des communications (TIC) et la croissance de l’économie française au cours des deux dernières décennies; une perspective structurelle sur les origines de la nouvelle économie; ainsi qu’un compte rendu d’un récent ouvrage du NBER consacré aux nouveaux développements dans l’analyse de la productivité.