O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth

• Restructuring in the Canadian Economy: A Survey of Firms

  Staff Working Paper 2002-8 Carolyn Kwan

  The regional offices of the Bank conducted a survey of 140 Canadian companies (representing all non-government sectors of the economy) to study the effects of restructuring (defined as a major change in the way firms do business).

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Labour markets, Productivity, Regional economic developments JEL Code(s): O, O5, O51

• Contribution of ICT Use to Output and Labour-Productivity Growth in Canada

  Staff Working Paper 2002-7 Hashmat Khan, Marjorie Santos

  There is ample evidence that information and communication technologies (ICT) contributed significantly to the surge in output and labour-productivity growth in the United States in the late 1990s.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Productivity JEL Code(s): O, O4, O5

• Private Capital Flows, Financial Development, and Economic Growth in Developing Countries

  Staff Working Paper 2000-15 Jeannine Bailliu

  An important issue in the debate over the desirability of freer capital mobility for developing countries is whether capital flows have significant effects on economic growth. Proponents of capital account liberalization cite the growth-promoting attributes of capital inflows as a key benefit of financial integration for developing countries.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): International topics JEL Code(s): F, F2, F21, F4, F43, O, O5, O50

• Food Aid Delivery, Food Security and Aggregate Welfare in a Small Open Economy: Theory and Evidence

  Staff Working Paper 1998-1 Patrick Osakwe

  A small-open-economy model is developed to examine how the method of food aid disbursement affects labor employment, food security and aggregate welfare, in recipient countries, in an environment in which private sector firms pay efficiency wages to induce effort. Two forms of food aid delivery are considered: first is project food aid, under which food […]

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Development economics JEL Code(s): J, J4, O, O1, Q, Q1

• Lagging Productivity Growth in the Service Sector: Mismeasurement, Mismanagement or Misinformation?

  Staff Working Paper 1997-6 Dinah Maclean

  While the service sector has been growing rapidly as a share of total output, aggregate productivity growth has generally lagged behind that of the goods sector. In this report, the author assesses a range of explanations for lagging service sector productivity growth.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Productivity, Recent economic and financial developments JEL Code(s): L, L8, L80, O, O4, O47