Canada: Selected Issues

August 5, 1998

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Canada: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1998) accessed December 26, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper reviews the factors that may explain high and persistent unemployment in Canada, with particular emphasis on the role that a decline in the relative cost of capital may have had on trend unemployment. The analysis suggests that in Canada a declining trend in the cost of capital, associated with technological changes and innovations, has been an important factor in explaining the rise and persistence of unemployment. The paper also analyzes recent trends in personal saving in Canada and macroeconomic effects of the government debt

Subject: Expenditure, Health, Health care, Health care spending, Inflation, National accounts, Prices, Private savings

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Canada, Canada's official development assistance, Central and Eastern Europe, CR, Global, Health care, Health care spending, Inflation, ISCR, North America, ODA priority, Price level, Price-level target, Private savings, Saving rate, Traditional ODA

Publication Details

Pages:

90
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 1998/055
Stock No:

1CANEA0021998
ISBN:

9781451806915
ISSN:

1934-7685

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