AIMS On-Line for early February 2003
New thinking key to Newfoundland prosperity, an excerpt from Mark Milke’s new book, Tax Me I’m Canadian – Your Money and How Politicians Spend It and Australia looks to AIMS for analysis of Equalization.
AIMS On-Line for late January 2003
AIMS launches ACOA WATCH, AIMS in La Presse on sustainable growth and more.
Governments, Enterprise, Forests and the State of the Planet – AIMS talks to the Nova Scotia Forest Products Association
To continue to progress, humanity needs more economic growth, not less, and needs it to occur in ways that allow us to husband our resources, preserving their value for not only ourselves but future generations. Where hunger continues to be a problem, for example, it is due almost exclusively to two factors. One is politics and poor quality institutions that prevent investment in land, and the second is standards of living too low to allow access to the very latest in modern technology. However, as AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley told the annual meeting of the Nova Scotia Forest Products Association recently, there are very specific circumstances and institutions that are necessary for this creative mixing of human intelligence and natural capital to take place as quickly and on as broad a scale as is needed.
Les OGM au secours de l’Afrique
In this article from La Presse, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley argues Instead of being the source of environmental degradation, this competitive system has unleashed human ingenuity and generated the wealth that has allowed our planet to support far more human life than would have been thought possible even a century ago.
AIMS On-Line for late October 2002
Rags to Riches How "The Regions" can lead Canada's productivity growth, Dr. Michael MacDonald on how the New Cape Breton starts at home, AIMS at Acadia University on the meaning of sustainable development and Brian Lee Crowley on proportional representation.
Globe uses AIMS Study to Assail Harmful Effects of Patronage
In taking a critical look at patronage and its negative economic impacts, the Globe and Mail turned to a study released earlier this month by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies. The study assailed equalization transfers, employment insurance and "the activist economic development policy" that have been the mainstays of Canada's "regional development tool kit." All one has to do is examine what's happened since 1995, when federal budget cuts began taking their toll on transfers, and Atlantic Canadians began screaming that the cuts would destroy their economy. The exact opposite has occurred. Despite slower population growth or none at all, job creation has hit new highs for four years running, and significantly outstripped the gain in Canada as a whole. Read the full editorial to see why patronage is an awfully inefficient and ineffective development tool that tends to direct money where it could be most politically beneficial rather than economically productive.
New Cape Breton Starts at Home
Dr. Michael MacDonald, AIMS Senior Fellow, was invited to give this paper at the recent International Business Summit held in Cape Breton. Since the closing of the coal mines and steel industry, business and government have been trying to develop an economic and social transition from the defunct industrial base to a new economy focused on small innovative business and the knowledge economy. The Summit signalled a turning point in business growth in Cape Breton as it grew out of a partnership between the Cape Breton Boards of Trade, the Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation and organized labour. It was a major event bringing together about 65 North American business leaders to investigate doing business in the new economy of Cape Breton. Dr. MacDonald leads two AIMS initiatives that are an ideal fit with the new economy in Cape Breton, the Canada Cities and the Atlantica projects.
Rags to Riches “The Regions” can lead Canada’s Productivity Growth
AIMS’ response to the TD Forum on Canada’s Standard of Living
Rags to Riches
In 2002 Charles Baillie, Chairman and CEO, TD Bank Financial Group challenged Canadians to think aggressively about how to exceed the U.S. standard of living within 15 years. Don Drummond, Senior Vice President & Chief Economist TD Bank Financial Group for invited Brian lee Crowley, on behalf of AIMS, to bring together nearly a decade’s reflection on how the less-developed provinces of Canada can lead the country’s push to achieve higher levels of growth and prosperity.
AIMS On-Line for September 2002
AIMS presents Stephen Harper's first major policy speech in Atlantic Canada as Leader of the Opposition, AIMS on impact of 9/11, the federal Tories seek AIMS' advice on regional development and Brian lee Crowley on corporate governance.