The issue of productivity and the related issue of innovation continue to be high on the public policy agenda. Policymakers are particularly interested in the social aspects of productivity. In The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress, 2002, the second issue of a new annual, authors examine the two-way linkages between productivity and various measures of social progress in Canada. Papers in the volume fall into two main themes: the effects of productivity on social progress indicators and the social determinants of productivity.
France St-Hilaire is recently retired after a 30-year career at the Institute for Research on Public Policy.
Keith Banting is a professor in the Department of Political Studies and School of Public Policy and holder of the Queen's Research Chair in Public Policy at Queen's University.