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

10 Pages Posted: 12 Nov 2013

Date Written: November 6, 2013

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Economic Growth and Innovation

JEL Classification: E2

Suggested Citation

Dachis, Benjamin and Robson, William B. P., Equipping Canadian Workers: Business Investment Loses a Step Against Competitors Abroad (November 6, 2013). C.D. Howe Institute E-brief 167, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2352981 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2352981

Benjamin Dachis

C.D. Howe Institute ( email )

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William B. P. Robson (Contact Author)

C.D. Howe Institute ( email )

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Canada
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