The World Economy

1. The new world order Dale W. Jorgenson; 2. US Economic Growth ÔÇô retrospect and prospect: lessons from a prototype industry-level production account for the United States, 1947ÔÇô2012 Dale W. Jorgenson, Mun S. Ho and Jon D. Samuels; 3. The structural causes of Japan's lost decades Kyoji Fukao, Kenta Ikeuchi, Hyeog Ug Kwon, Young Gak Kim, Tatsuji Makino and Miho Takizawa; 4. Growth and stagnation in Europe Bart van Ark and Mary O'Mahony; 5. LA-KLEMS: economic growth and productivity in Latin America Andr+® Hofman, Matilde Mas, Claudio Aravena and Juan Fern+índez de Guevara; 6. On China's strategic move for a new stage of development ÔÇô a productivity perspective Harry X. Wu; 7. Productivity growth in India under different policy regimes Deb Kusum Das, Abdula Erumban, Suresh Aggarwal and Sreerupa Sengupta; 8. Is mining fuelling long-run growth in Russia? Industry productivity growth trends in 1995ÔÇô2012 Marcel P. Timmer and Ilya B. Voskoboynikov; 9. Intangibles, ICT and industry productivity growth: evidence from the EU Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel and Cecilia Jona-Lasinio; 10. Do intangibles contribute to productivity growth in East Asian countries? Evidence from Japan and Korea Hyunbae Chun, Miyagawa Tsutomu, Hak Kil Pyo and Tonogi Konomi; 11. BEA/BLS industry-level production account for the United States: integrated sources of growth, intangible capital, and the US recovery Steven Rosenthal, Matthew Russell, Jon D. Samuels, Erich H. Strassner and Lisa Usher; 12. Measuring human capital: country experiences and international initiatives Gang Liu and Barbara M. Fraumeni; 13. A half century of trans-Pacific competition: price-level indices and productivity gaps for Japanese and US industries, 1955ÔÇô2012 Dale W. Jorgenson, Koji Nomura and Jon D. Samuels; 14. Searching for convergence and its causes ÔÇô an industry perspective Robert Inklaar; 15. The rise of global manufacturing value chains: a new perspective based on the World Input-Output Database Marcel P. Timmer, Bart Los and Gaaitzen J. de Vries.