.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 …

The forest products sector in Canada has faced hard times since 2000. In terms of productivity growth, the sector as a … other two subsectors within the forest products sector – forestry and logging and wood product manufacturing – experienced …

in particular by the wood product manufacturing subsector. While the forestry and logging subsector has also benefited …

products sector at the national and provincial level in Canada, to compare this situation to that in other countries with … important forestry product sectors, and to offer some explanation of the trends discovered. The report covers seven major areas … industries, logging and forestry, wood products, and paper products. The second discusses trends in employment and hours worked …

. Scott first reviews the history of environmental policy in England, the United States and Canada. He then examines the …. The paper then compares what economists do in Canada in the environmental area compared to that in the United States …, finding that academic environmental economists in Canada specialize more in theory and show little knowledge or interest in …

natural resource industries and in the overall natural resource sector in Canada. This report provides a concise review of the … findings of a detailed analysis undertaken by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards for Natural Resources Canada. The … are that: natural resource industries contribute disproportionately to aggregate productivity growth in Canada, with …

industries in Canada over the last 40 years. This report presents data and discusses trends in labour and total factor … productivity for natural resources industries in Canada over the 1961-2000 period. It also examines the major determinants of these … forestry and logging, wood products and paper products; mining; and manufacturing industries involved with the processing of …

Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty …

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 …

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 …