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 …

The objectives of this report are to examine the characteristics of manufacturing in Atlantic Canada and to shed light … 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 …

behind the acceleration of productivity growth in Canada and the United States since 1996. However, the potential of ICT has …

preferences). This paper examines these factors in an attempt to shed light on the causes of Canada-U.S. productivity differences … natural resource industries in Canada relative to the United States. Managerial factors, especially the implementation of new … technologies and related processes, may be important in explaining the poor productivity growth in Canada relative to the United …

Canada's labour productivity performance has been abysmal since 2000, both relative to our historical experience and to … work. Canada's potential level of "social productivity" is lower because of this situation. This is an output shortfall …

and impact of LMI in Canada, to assess the contribution of recent research to that knowledge, and to outline areas in …

In 2012, business sector software investment per worker in Canada was 40.7 per cent of that in the United States. The … in software than their U.S. counterparts. The report reviews the state of the software investment landscape in Canada …

Canada since 2000 through an exploration of the various channels, both direct and indirect, by which the oil and gas sector …