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Improving productivity: Canada’s daunting challenge

Peter Josty
September 11, 2024

Unless we achieve a consensus on the causes of Canada’s poor productivity performance, its importance and how to fix the problem, it is unlikely things will change, says thought leader Peter Josty.

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Organizations:	Alberta Central, Bank of Canada, Business Council of Alberta, Business Development Bank, Canada’s Competition Bureau, Centre for Innovation Studies, Council of Canadian Academies, Deloitte, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, Government of Canada, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and Word Economic Forum
People:	Charles St-Arnaud, Peter Josty, and Robert D. Atkinson
Topics:	alternatives to GDP for measuring productivity, benefits of removing interprovincial trade barriers, Big is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business (book), causes of Canada's productivity problem, corporate spending on R&D, fixing Canada's poor productivity performance, interprovincial trade barriers, lack of competition in Canada, lack of large companies in Canada, overinvestment in housing, and regulations and competition

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