The objective of this report is to provide an overview of the evolution of productivity in the natural resources … productivity for natural resources industries in Canada over the 1961-2000 period. It also examines the major determinants of these … labour productivity and total factor productivity since 1961. …

The purpose of this report is to shed light on the dynamics and determinants of productivity growth in nine selected … importance of productivity growth is reviewed, and observations are made on the contribution of natural resource industries to … aggregate productivity growth; brief summaries on productivity and its determinants are presented for each of the nine …

on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector …. A number of possible factors contributing to the Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap are examined … Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap, namely less innovative effort, particularly in high-tech industries …

The Canadian forest products sector has had an above-average productivity performance in the 2000-2012 period, driven … from strong productivity gains, the productivity performance of the paper manufacturing subsector has been far from … impressive, especially in the post-2008 period. This report provides a detailed analysis of output, input and productivity trends …