Editor’s Overview

Abstract

THIS ISSUE OF THE International Productivity Monitor contains five articles on: recent productivity developments in the world economy; aggregate measures of income and their implications for productivity and living standards; the role of sectoral employment shifts in aggregate productivity growth in Canada; productivity trends in regulated industries in Canada and the United States; and international productivity comparisons in the financial and business services sectors.Productivity, Living Standards, Aggregate Measures of Income, Sectoral Employment, Productivity Growth,