economic growth

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Singapore’s industrial policy promotes real economic growth

Politicians and bureaucrats in Canada are rarely affected if the claimed benefits of government initiatives fail to materialize.


10:30AM
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New Brunswick losing head offices and their associated economic activity

Head office employment in the province is down more than 300 jobs since 2014.


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Economic progress stalling for Canada and other G7 countries

Productivity in Ireland has grown at a rapid annual pace of 5.9 per cent, more than six times faster than the G7.


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Canada’s economy has stagnated despite Ottawa’s spin

From 2015 to 2023, inflation-adjusted per-person economic growth averaged a paltry 0.3 per cent.


4:28PM
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Federal budget fails to ‘break the glass’ on Canada’s economic growth crisis

Per-person GDP, a common indicator of living standards, now sits below where it was at the end of 2014.


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Federal government should cut taxes in upcoming budget to spur economic growth

From 2013 to 2022, per-person economic growth—a broad measure of living standards—was at its lowest rate since the Great Depression.


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Federal government helped spark Canada’s economic growth crisis

Over the last nine years, Canadian living standards have not increased.


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Canada should learn from Singapore’s stunning economic growth

Government spending (as a share of the economy) in Singapore is around 15 per cent compared to more than 40 per cent in Canada.