.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 …

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 …

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 …