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 …

and graduate education have expanded dramatically, leading many more undergraduates to stay in Canada for their graduate … graduate programs, the proportion living outside Canada is and has always been high, reflecting a very international mix of … subsequently living and working in Canada, and especially in British Columbia, is much higher than the share of Canadian citizens …

Canada. Key gaps include the identification of leading and lagging industries in terms of adoption; key barriers to … technological diffusion in Canada including economic-policy-related barriers; appropriate direct policy interventions to overcome … diffusion in Canada; and specific challenges small and medium enterprises face in adopting technology. Another issue requiring …

considered of particular interest to Canada – the United States, Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Sweden … – and comments on possible lessons for Canada from these experiences. …

The main purpose of this report is to assess Canada’s performance in attracting foreign direct investment inflows. The … affecting the inflow of FDI, and details how Canada ranks relative to other major OECD countries on the most influential factors …. Canada’s share of world FDI has fallen markedly since 1980. The report finds that this development reflects the opening of …

This paper makes the case that productivity is Canada’s economic destiny and that Canada’s dismal productivity … puts forward three specific policies to improve Canada’s productivity performance: foster the diffusion of best …

productivity. Accordingly, Canada should pay closer attention to the competitive implications of public policy than has been the …

This paper first reviews apprenticeship trends in Canada over the last two decades. It then examines prospects for … raise serious questions about the ability of the apprenticeship system in Canada to produce an adequate supply of qualified … reform the apprenticeship system must come from inside the system. Attention should focus on the reasons why Canada …

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 …