In for the long haul: Alberta’s 50 year struggle to create a world-class Oil and Gas Industry
The Hon. Peter Lougheed speech to AIMS 5th Anniversary Banquet
Equalization’s role in the Voisey’s Bay talks
Talks between Inco and the government of Newfoundland and Labrador on the development of the rich Voisey's Bay mineral deposit collapsed recently, and may now be postponed indefinitely. AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley analyses the role played in this drama by Canada's equalization system in his column in The Globe and Mail.
La croissance économique n’est pas un mystère
Une nouvelle publication de AIMS révèle aux Canadiens les secrets d’économies qui sont passées du rang de retardataires au rang de stars internationales.
The “Road to Growth” is no mystery
New AIMS book reveals to Canadians the secrets of economies that went from perennial laggard status to international economic stars.
Road to Growth
Economic growth is not a mysterious force that strikes unpredictably or whose absence is inexplicable, according to Fred McMahon, Road to Growth. McMahon's book shows that successful economies maintain moderate costs, particularly labour costs and taxes. That leaves room for healthy profits, which in turn attract and fund further investment.
Debt drags us all down
The Nova Scotia Government's program review has attracted a great deal of criticism, much of it attacking the premise on which program review is based. In The Sunday Herald, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley reviews the case for program review and concludes that the arguments for it remain compelling. Not only do the province’s finances need to be put on a sustainable course, but ensuring that Nova Scotians get good value for public spending is indispensable for future prosperity.