Montreal, April 12, 2012 – The new decentralizing measures adopted by the Quebec government in the early 2000s seem to be bearing fruit, according to a study on the performance of government agencies by the Centre for Productivity and Prosperity. “This shift resulted in an average productivity increase of 2.9% at government agencies over the past ten years,” says Claude Laurin, co-author of the study and Full Professor at HEC Montréal.