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Equipping Canadian Workers: Business Investment Loses a Step against Competitors Abroad

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  • Benjaming Dachis

    (C.D. Howe Institute)

  • William B.P. Robson

    (C.D. Howe Institute)

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After several years of relatively robust performance, Canada is lagging its peers in business investment growth, according to a new report by the C.D. Howe institute. In “Equipping Canadian Workers: Business Investment Loses a Step against Competitors Abroad,” authors Benjamin Dachis and William B.P. Robson find 2013 growth in new private-sector plant and equipment spending per worker in Canada seems likely to lag investment abroad, with strength in the more natural-resource-oriented provinces offset by weakness in Central Canada and the Maritimes.

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  • Benjaming Dachis & William B.P. Robson, 2013. "Equipping Canadian Workers: Business Investment Loses a Step against Competitors Abroad," e-briefs 167, C.D. Howe Institute.
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    1. Colin Busby & William P.B. Robson, 2009. "Equipping Ourselves in Tough times: Canada's Improved Business Investment Performance," e-briefs 83, C.D. Howe Institute.
    2. Adam Found & Peter Tomlinson, 2012. "Hiding in Plain Sight: The Harmful Impact of Provincial Business Property Taxes," C.D. Howe Institute Commentary, C.D. Howe Institute, issue 368, December.
    3. Robin Banerjee & William B.P. Robson, 2007. "Give Canadian Workers the Tools to do the Job! Why Canada Needs More Robust Capital Investment," e-briefs 44, C.D. Howe Institute.
    4. Benjaming Dachis & Adam Found & Peter Tomlinson, 2013. "What Gets Measured Gets Managed: The Economic Burden of Business Property Taxes," e-briefs 166, C.D. Howe Institute.
    5. Benjamin Dachis & William B.P. Robson, 2012. "From Living Well to Working Well: Raising Canada's Performance in Non-residential Investment," e-briefs 137, C.D. Howe Institute.
    6. Jianmin Tang & Someshwar Rao & Min Li, 2010. "Sensitivity of Capital Stock and Multifactor Productivity Estimates to Depreciation Assumptions: A Canada-U.S. Comparison," International Productivity Monitor, Centre for the Study of Living Standards, vol. 20, pages 22-47, Fall.
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    1. Alex Laurin & William B.P. Robson, 2014. "Equipping Canadians for Success: A Shadow Budget for 2014," C.D. Howe Institute Commentary, C.D. Howe Institute, issue 399, January.
    2. Philip Cross, 2014. "The Public Purse versus Private Wallets: Comparing Provincial Approaches to Investing in Economic Growth," e-briefs 178, C.D. Howe Institute.

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    Economic Growth and Innovation;

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    • E2 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment

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