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Investment in British Columbia: Current Realities and the Way Forward

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François; Harrison, Peter - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2008

long run. Investment in British Columbia is lagging when compared to that of Canada, particularly in machinery and …

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Productivity Drivers in British Columbia: Strategic Areas for Improvement

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2008

A brief analysis of British Columbia’s productivity performance and the state of the drivers of this performance reveals that five areas merit additional focus and research. They are, in the proposed order of completion: Education and literacy, including professional qualifications and...

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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia …

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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...

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The Impact of the National Child Benefit Supplement on the Low Income Status of Canadian Families with Children: The SPSD/M Results

Standards, Centre for the Study of Living - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2002

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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Deficit Elimination, Economic Performance and Social Progress in Canada in the 1990s

Drummond, Don - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

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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Interest Rates, Unemployment and Inflation in the 1990s: The Canadian Experience

Fortin, Pierre - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

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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Decline in Youth Participation in Canada in the 1990s: Structural or Cyclical?

Archambault, Richard; Grignon, Louis - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

is essential to an overall understanding of the fall in labour force participation in the 1990s in Canada. In the fifth … labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s. They disaggregate the youth participation rate into three components: the …

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Distributional Outcomes in Canada During the 1990s

Heisz, Andrew; Jackson, Andrew; Picot, Garnett - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

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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Monetary Policy and the Economic Well-being of Canadians

Jenkins, Paul; O'Reilly, Brian - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

links between monetary policy and the economic well-being of Canadians. The Bank of Canada economists do admit that tight …

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