Entrepreneurship

— Sep 24, 2024
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Weakness of Corporate Investment in Canada, 2001–2021

The Weakness of Corporate Investment in Canada, 2001-2021: Identification and Assessment finds that business investment in high-tech and innovative asset categories—crucial to raising living standards—has been significantly weaker in Canada than in the U.S. for the past 20 years, and the gap has grown larger since 2014.

— Jul 11, 2024
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Comparing the Investment Performances of Canada and the United States over the Past Five Decades

Comparing the Investment Performances of Canada and the United States Over the Past Five Decades is a new study that finds weak business investment in technologies that increase worker productivity over the past decade is stifling Canada’s economic growth and suppressing improvements in Canadian living standards when compared to other OECD countries—especially the United States, which has only grown in these areas.

— Jan 23, 2024
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Stagnation in Atlantic Canada’s Private Sector

Stagnation in Atlantic Canada’s Private Sector: Measuring Progress 2007 to 2019 is a new study that analyzes the private sector in Atlantic Canada and across the country between 2007 and 2019, finding that the region's private sector trailed the rest of the country, failing to improve over the period.

— Jul 11, 2023
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What is Behind Canada’s Growth Crisis?

What is Behind Canada’s Growth Crisis? finds that Canada’s per-person GDP, a common measure of prosperity, is growing at its slowest rate since the 1930s and the Great Depression.

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  • Professor of Economics & Entrepreneurship, Baker School of Business at The Citadel
  • President, Fraser Institute