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Unbundling Canada's Weak Productivity Performance: The Way Forward

by Andrew Sharpe, Centre for the Study of Living Standards

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Abstract

This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada's productivity performance; provide a synthesis of the productivity studies conducted by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) and the McKinsey Global Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling slow productivity growth in Canada and the widening productivity gap with the United States.

The paper is also published on the Centre for the Study of Living Standards web site.