加拿大競爭報告(PDF 17頁)

? Canada-U.S. links are deep and pervasive:
- TRADE: over one million dollars a minute, 45% is intra-corporate,
exports to U.S. are about 40% of business-sector GDP,
- CAPITAL: about $300 billion in two-way foreign direct
investment, dramatic growth in integration of financial markets,
- PEOPLE: more than 200 million people cross the border every
year, telecommunications traffic over 6 billion minutes annually,
- OUTSIDE PERCEPTION: North America viewed as one space.
MEPA – APME 3
For Canada, globalization largely means increased
linkages with the U.S.
This has boosted Canada’s economic performance...
MEPA – APME 4
3.8
Canada
? Between 1997-99, Canada’s
economy outperformed
other G-7 countries.
Real GDP growth in G-7 countries*,
1997-1999
* Average of year-to-year percentage changes in real GDP
Source: Main Economic Indicators, OECD, April 2000
0.7
G-7
Average
2.6 2.5
1.7
1.3
0.0
U.S. France
U.K.
Germany
Italy
Japan
4.2
% per year
…but Canada still lags the U.S.
? Over past two decades, the real
income gap between Canada and
U.S. has widened:
- risk that trend continues,
- largely due to widening
productivity gap.
? Need stronger productivity
performance to boost Canadian
standard of living and broaden
societal range of choices.
? Canada’s innovation and
investment record largely
explains the gap in productivity
performance between Canada
and the U.S.
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