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Month: April 2019

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Should we be wary of foreign investment?

Posted on April 25, 2019 by David Campbell

I get this question quite a bit.  After a German entity bought up some timber land in the Miramichi this week I received several emails of concern. Well, if you aren’t prepared to invest in New Brunswick, we will need…

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Whither manufacturing in New Brunswick?

Posted on April 13, 2019 by David Campbell

One of the least talked about economic trends in New Brunswick but the one with probably the most impact on the economy has been the shift in manufacturing over the past decade or more.  As shown in the first table,…

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Oh where, oh where are the entrepreneurs going?

Posted on April 5, 2019 by David Campbell

One of my big themes lately is that we should think more about where the next round of entrepreneurs will come from rather than which funding programs/cash we are going to give the ones coming through the door.  My concern…

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ROI on public investment into economic development

Posted on April 1, 2019 by David Campbell

Geez, folks. In just the past three days I have read three economic impact reports showing the ‘return’ on government investment as a multiple of either output/spending or GDP.  This is at best bad economics and at worst purposely misleading. If…

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