Perspectives on Australia’s Productivity Prospects

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The paper, PDF documentPerspectives on Australia’s Productivity Prospects, by Graeme Davis and Jyoti Rahman, has been released in conjunction with the presentation, Productivity Level: How Far can Australia Catch Up?, by Graeme Davis at the Productivity Perspectives 2006 conference.

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Contents

1   Introduction

2   Conditional Convergence

3   The Australia-US Productivity Gap
3.1   Relative factor intensities
3.2   The role of policies
3.3   Other explanations

4   Perspectives on Productivity Prospects
4.1   Reforms and Australia’s productivity
4.2   The ‘new economy’
4.3   Projecting productivity growth

5   Conclusion

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