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

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Page Title:Equipping Canadian Workers: Business Investment Loses a Step against Competitors Abroad – C.D. Howe Institute
Article Title:Equipping Canadian Workers: Business Investment Loses a Step against Competitors Abroad
URL:https://cdhowe.org/publication/equipping-canadian-workers-business-investment-loses-step-against-competitors-abroad/
Published Date:November 6, 2013
Accessed Date:February 14, 2025

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.

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