Canada's Global Competitiveness Challenge

Any conclusions regarding Canada's competitiveness must be based on the criteria of total factor productivity rather than trade performance. The use of available data on merchandise export/import balance is misleading because merchandise trade, for instance, precludes trade in services. While trade performance criteria is less than sufficient in judging the competitiveness of Canada, close study of the total factor productivity criteria does not find evidence for the alleged "crisis of Canadian loss of competitiveness

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• Trade, Industrial Policy and International Competition

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• Exchange Rates and International Competitiveness of the Canadian Economy

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• Canada's Productivity Performance

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• The world competitiveness report 1989

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• Efficiency Wages

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