Canada Selected Issues

The issue of productivity growth in Canada has received considerable attention reflecting its marked slowdown since the early 1970s and concerns about its implications for Canadian competitiveness. To better understand productivity developments in Canada, it is useful to decompose total factor produ...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2000
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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653 |a Public debt 
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653 |a Labour; income economics 
653 |a Public finance & taxation 
653 |a Taxes 
653 |a Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search 
653 |a Debt Management 
653 |a Debts, Public 
653 |a Capital and Total Factor Productivity 
653 |a Cost 
653 |a Industrial productivity 
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653 |a Debt 
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653 |a Total factor productivity 
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653 |a Income tax systems 
653 |a Corporate & business tax 
653 |a Corporate Taxation 
653 |a Macroeconomics 
653 |a Capacity 
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520 |a The issue of productivity growth in Canada has received considerable attention reflecting its marked slowdown since the early 1970s and concerns about its implications for Canadian competitiveness. To better understand productivity developments in Canada, it is useful to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) into investment-specific productivity change (ISP) and technologically neutral productivity change (TNP). The gap in manufacturing productivity growth between Canada and the United States originates mostly in the strong performance of specific industries, such as electrical products and commercial and industrial machinery