cover image: A cure for Dutch disease

Premium

20.500.12592/8pzq1m

A cure for Dutch disease

3 Apr 2012

Given the overall deterioration in labour in federal social programs, transfers, and taxes) has meant market, productivity, and international trade indicators that 2 AFB 2012 Sector Development Policy has been associated with the resource-driven restructuring These policies, and the fiscal tools we propose to fund them, of the national economy since the turn of the century, it is formed part of th [...] Because evident after the turn of the century, driven initially by a of our failure to produce and sell high-value products and number of factors: the dot-com meltdown, the 9-11 attacks services internationally, we’re becoming increasingly indebt- and subsequent economic problems in the U. S., and ris- ed to the rest of the world. [...] Perfectly overlapping this historical in resources, grew another $25 billion in just the first nine trend has been a long-run erosion in the R&D performance months of 2011) is the flip side of the coin of our failure to of Canada’s businesses. [...] In all sector development strategizing, the reduction extorted concessions from its workers, blatantly violated the of pollution, the development of clean technology, and the weak conditions attached by Investment Canada officials to amelioration of existing environmental damage will always be its takeover of Stelco, and then received a token slap on the top priorities in the list of criteria for [...] For a takeover to be approved, a foreign investor would 4. Control Non-Renewable Energy Developments have to make binding commitments to production and employ- (Especially in the Oil Sands) ment levels, new investments in fixed capital and technology, The willy-nilly energy boom of the last decade imposed im- and an expansion of Canadian content in supply contracts and mense economic and environme
economic development agriculture government politics economy recession exchange rate productivity growth international trade canada business dutch disease employment government policy investments labour purchasing power parity bank economic sector environmental sustainability canadian economy business cycle ppp economy, business and finance car climate protection

Authors

Stanford, Jim

Pages
11
Published in
Canada

Related Topics

All