Economic Development & Productivity
Events
June 2023 | Montreal, QC
An in-depth discussion on Environmental, Social and Governance matters with keynote guests the Right Honourable Stephen J. Harper, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada, Emmanuel Faber, Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), and Professor Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at Harvard Business School.
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January 2023 | London, UK
A roundtable analysis of the long-run historical view of women’s economic activity with a view to informing contemporary issues. Keynote guests included Dr. Amy Louise Erickson, Professor of Feminist History at Cambridge University, and Dr. Jennifer Aston, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Institute of Humanities at Northumbria University.
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19 May 2022 | Queen’s Park, Toronto
A convergence of factors – climate change, geopolitical conflict and inflationary pressures – has brought the debate on how to balance sustainability with security, prosperity and social impact into much sharper focus.
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Canada’s money lives in exile. We’re rich abroad, but starved at home
Dr. Laurence B. Mussio, writing in The Globe and Mail, observes that Canada excels at creating capital and talent but loses both abroad. Of the $2.3 trillion held by major pension funds, only 25 percent is invested domestically. He argues that weak growth opportunities, regulatory uncertainty, and limited scale are widening Canada’s productivity gap by driving investors and skilled workers to the U.S.—but there are ways to reverse this trend so capital and talent choose to stay and grow the economy at home.
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Changing the Narrative on Climate: the LRI/BMO CI Symposium
The climate/energy transition has deep implications for resource-based economies like Canada. Our speakers and invited audience were drawn from the senior ranks of the university, public policy and corporate worlds – and all engaged in various dimensions of the conversation. How are we to negotiate this massive transformation of energy regime, keeping in mind not only sustainability, but also material prosperity and social impact?
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Confronting The Productivity Challenge Synopsis
Since the Global Financial Crisis, productivity – a 250 year-old engine of economic growth – has flat-lined. How do we tackle such a serious and complex issue?
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