--- canonical_url: "https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-40/" title: "IPM Issue 40 Editors’ Overview" author: name: "CSLS" url: "https://csls.ca/author/cslc/" date_published: "2026-07-13T07:53:19+00:00" date_modified: "2026-07-14T07:47:46+00:00" post_type: "ipm" summary: "" ipm_issue_period: - "Spring 2021" ipm_keyword: - "Canada" - "CSLS" - "Equitable Growth Institute" - "Japan" - "New Zealand" - "OECD" - "pay" - "productivity" - "Productivity Institute" - "services prices" - "Spring 2021" ipm_country_focus: - "Canada" - "International" - "Japan" - "New Zealand" - "OECD" - "United Kingdom" featured_image: "https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IPM_50_banner.webp" status: "publish" --- # IPM Issue 40 Editors’ Overview Canonical URL: https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-40/ # IPM Issue 40 Editors’ Overview [Download full PDF article](https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IPM-Issue-40-EO.pdf) Cite this article × Cite this article as: Sharpe, Andrew, and Bart van Ark. 2021. “Editors’ Overview.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 40 (Spring 2021): 1–2. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-40/ ## Authors: - Andrew Sharpe Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - Bart van Ark University of Manchester / The Productivity Institute ## IPM Issue 40 Spring 2021 pp. 1–2 ## Related IPM articles [Is the SNA Still Useful? 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The issue contains seven articles: pay and productivity in Canada (Williams); frontier firm benchmarking in New Zealand vs. small advanced economies (Zheng, Duy & Pacheco); causes of Japan’s economic slowdown using the JIP database (Fukao, Kim & Kwon); services producer price index audit across OECD countries (O’Mahony & Samek); a viewpoint on Canada establishing an Equitable Growth Institute (Drummond); and two review articles on UK productivity volumes and productivity/efficiency measurement methods. Le numéro 40 marque une étape importante : le CSLS s’associe désormais au Productivity Institute (Royaume-Uni) en tant que co-éditeur de l’IPM, Bart van Ark rejoignant Andrew Sharpe en tant que co-rédacteur en chef. Le numéro contient sept articles : la rémunération et la productivité au Canada; le benchmarking des entreprises de pointe en Nouvelle-Zélande par rapport aux petites économies avancées; les causes du ralentissement économique du Japon à l’aide de la base de données JIP; un audit de l’indice des prix à la production des services dans les pays de l’OCDE; un point de vue sur l’établissement d’un Institut pour une croissance équitable au Canada; et deux articles de recension sur des volumes de productivité britanniques et des méthodes de mesure de la productivité et de l’efficience. [Download full PDF](https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IPM-Issue-40-EO.pdf)