Our Work

In its Report last year, the Task Force set out an Agenda for achieving Ontario’s economic potential by 2020.  This year, the Task Force identifies the key first steps to put Ontario on the path to achieving this Agenda.

In Path to the 2020 Prosperity Agenda, the Task Force reports that Ontario’s GDP per capita is now $6,000, or 12 percent, behind the median of the 16 jurisdictions, up from the 2005 gap of $5,500 in constant dollars (2006). The Task Force concludes that Ontario’s...

In its tenth Working Paper, Prosperity, inequality, and poverty, The Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity explores the relationship between prosperity, income distribution, and poverty.

While Ontario has one of the most prosperous in the world, inequality of income distribution in the province has also been increasing. But the same is true for Canada and for most developed economies. 

The working paper finds that income is being distributed less equally than it was 25 years ago – income...

Toronto’s financial services industries are critical drivers of prosperity in the city region, in Ontario and across Canada. The Toronto Financial Services Alliance (TFSA) and the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT) are working to develop a provincial strategy to support continued growth in the sector. In support of this work, the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity has assessed the key strengths and weaknesses of the financial services cluster versus its...

Canadians need to step up to the challenge of closing our prosperity gap with the United States by 2020. With the likelihood of a federal and several provincial elections over the next 18 months, Canadians will have the opportunity to discuss and debate the importance of the prosperity gap and ways to narrow it. The Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity in its Report on Canada 2007, Agenda for Canada’s prosperity, proposes a prosperity agenda as a way of invigorating the debate.