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 …

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 …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … Economic Performance and Social Progress is to attempt to fill, at least in part, the lacuna in the literature in Canada on … trends in Canada and OECD countries. The two papers in the second section examine the impact productivity has on government …