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Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty …
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In this chapter, Don Drummond makes the case that with large deficits there was little room for the Bank of Canada to … argues that the elimination of the deficit has reduced risk premia and allowed the Bank of Canada to bring interest rates …
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in Canada, Fortin lays the blame for the inferior economic performance of the Canadian economy relative to the U ….S. economy squarely on the back of the Bank of Canada, and dismisses structural explanations of the recession as lacking an …
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distributional changes that have occurred in Canada in the 1990s as well as useful comparative perspectives both in terms of trends … income in Canada during the 1990s. …
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links between monetary policy and the economic well-being of Canadians. The Bank of Canada economists do admit that tight …
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Both labour and total factor productivity growth in the total and residential construction sectors in Canada have been … in the construction sector in Canada and by province, with particular attention to the residential construction sector …
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.The report also synthesizes the findings of the studies along two lines: (1) the overall productivity growth trends in Canada and … other countries and a comparison between forest products sectors in Canada and the United States; and (2) the determinants …
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Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour...
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particularly important measurement problems, namely the estimation of real output in the non-market sector where output is not … measured independently of inputs and the estimation of price indices (which are needed to calculate real output) for products …; the decline in Canada's relative international productivity ranking; and the widening of the Canada-US manufacturing …
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In this chapter, Daniel Schwanen addresses the impact of the major trade liberalization efforts undertaken by Canada … and its trading partners beginning with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989. The author focuses in … Canada in the 1990s. The author divides Canadian manufacturing industries into five groups according to their sensitivity to …
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