From Living Well to Working Well: Raising Canada’s Performance in Non-residential Investment

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Page Title:From Living Well to Working Well: Raising Canada’s Performance in Non-residential Investment – C.D. Howe Institute
Article Title:From Living Well to Working Well: Raising Canada’s Performance in Non-residential Investment
URL:https://cdhowe.org/publication/living-well-working-well-raising-canadas-performance-non-residential-investment/
Published Date:August 9, 2012
Accessed Date:February 17, 2025

Business investment in Canada is picking up relative to its international peers, but underlying problems remain, according to a report released by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “From Living Well to Working Well: Raising Canada’s Performance in Non-residential Investment,” authors Benjamin Dachis and William B.P. Robson identify widely divergent performances by provinces and a surge in the flow of  funds  to the residential sector away from the non-residential sector as problems to be addressed by policy reforms. “Policies that enhance competition and remove biases against non-residential investment could boost capital spending by businesses and improve Canadian workers’ prospects for higher incomes,” said Benjamin Dachis, Senior Policy Analyst.

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