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October 2002

Information technology and economic growth in Canada and the U.S.

Tarek M. Harchaoui, Faouzi Tarkhani, Chris Jackson, Philip Armstrong

Information and communication technology was the largest contributor to growth within capital services for both Canada and the United States during the late 1990s, but the contribution of this capital asset in Canada was lower than that in the United States.

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