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a) mining
b) manufacturing
c) business services
a) material inputs
b) labour input
a) For the overall Canadian economy, the productivity level is below that of the
U.S.
b) In the Canadian manufacturing sector the productivity level is significantly
below that of the U.S.
c) For the decade of the 1990's Canada's productivity gap with the U.S. narrowed
d) innovation
8. Which of the following factors has allowed Canadian manufacturing to increase its
competitiveness with the U.S. over the period 1990-97:
11. Which of the following are plausible explanations for the Canada-U.S
productivity gap:
b) Canada has relatively more small firms than the U.S. and small firms are
generally less technology intensive
c) The Canadian economy is more natural resource intensive than the U.S.
economy
d) U.S. manufacturing is considerably more R&D intensive than Canadian
manufacturing
a) British Columbia
b) Alberta
c) Ontario
d) Quebec
13. For Canada to improve it's productivity it could build on it's strengths. In which
of the following areas was Canadian performance stronger than that of the U.S in
1999: