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Closing our prosperity gap

7 Oct 2004

This model identifies the The Committee believes the prosperity gap can be closed magnitude of the gap, as well as the contributions of in a much shorter period than it has taken to create it, the factors composing it. [...] Because of the ever- must play a key role in closing the gap and the province green nature of the data used in the model and the must provide the overall leadership. [...] The Committee's prosperity model for the The Committee devised a roadmap to improve the province can be extrapolated to the community level. [...] The Committee also looked at the performance of the Nova Scotia economy over the past two decades, rela- Nova Scotia's prosperity gap has slowly increased over tive to the peer group. [...] Statistics Canada, U. S. Census Bureau, U. S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U. S. Bureau of Labour Statistics Table 2 shows the gap between Nova Scotia and the In both urban and rural parts of the province, the peer group for the province as a whole and for both gaps for intensity, utilization and productivity are the urban and rural areas.
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Authors

McCurdy, Ross F

Pages
24
Published in
Canada

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