Economic Development & Productivity

Events

DE/RE- INDUSTRIALIZATION: LEGACIES, CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

13 January 2021 | Online Briefing

Industries are relocating and employment needs are changing. How should corporations and governments handle the negative fallout on economies, societies and political systems? Should we – could we? – re-industrialize?

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PRECEDENTS IN AN UNPRECEDENTED WORLD: INSIGHTS FOR PANDEMIC ERA LEADERS

4 June 2020 | Online Briefing

How might Covid-19 affect businesses, the financial system, inequality and globalization? What can leaders learn from past pandemics, economic depressions and national crises?

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Confronting the Productivity Challenge

8 November 2019 | Roundtable, Belfast, UK

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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Articles

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

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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