高房價和房地產業獨大將會令加拿大的人均財富從G7國家的首位跌至末位

2019-01-15 21:35:35

新聞報道的原文：
www.huffingtonpost.ca/...9774371116

Canadians enjoy the highest level of wealth of any people among the G7 countries, but our "unsustainable" way of growing the economy means we're burning through that wealth, and setting ourselves up for harder times ahead.

That's the conclusion of a research paper from the International Institute for Sustainable Development, which pointed to "the depletion of many of Canada's natural resources" as a major source of the problem, along with the increasing flow of money into the housing market instead of other parts of the economy.

The IISD paper, released last fall, points to data showing that Canada has the highest level of wealth among the dominant G7 economies. But it's also the only country where that wealth has been shrinking in recent decades.

While most G7 countries have seen their wealth grow by around 1 per cent per year since 1990, in Canada it has been shrinking by about 0.25 per cent per year.

If this keeps up, Canada will lose its status as wealthiest G7 country to Japan within five years, and will be near the bottom by the end of the 2030s, the IISD report predicts.

Part of the reason why Canada's wealth is stagnating is that Canadians are shifting ever more of their money to housing, which — other than providing shelter — is not a very productive part of the economy.

As wealth flows into houses, it fails to flow into financial markets, which helps explain why the Toronto Stock Exchange has seen among the worst returns of any major stock market in recent years.

——一言以蔽之，就是高房價和房地產業獨大嚴重毒害了加拿大的經濟

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麤龘

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加拿大本來就是G7國家末位好伐……

2019-01-15 21:49:51 | 引用

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麤龘寫道:

加拿大本來就是G7國家末位好伐……

你自己先看看新聞報導的原文

2019-01-15 22:08:14 | 引用

shelly.royan

fangpao

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G7裡面加國的人均GDP居然第二，僅次於美國。令人難以置信

2019-01-15 22:13:54 | 引用

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fangpao 寫道:

G7裡面加國的人均GDP居然第二，僅次於美國。令人難以置信

"Comprehensive wealth" includes, but is not limited to:

Financial capital (stocks, bonds, bank deposits and other financial assets)
Human capital (the value of the skills and knowledge that a workforce has)
Natural capital (land and the natural resources on that land)
Produced capital (buildings, machinery and infrastructure)

Not surprisingly, Canada is super strong on "natural capital." Canadians enjoy four times as much per-capita natural capital as the second-place country, the U.S.

2019-01-15 22:18:18 | 引用

shelly.royan

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Re: 高房價和房地產業獨大將會令加拿大的人均財富從G7國家的首位

全是炒房子的功勞啊歡迎自由黨回來帶領加拿大人民把炒房事業更上一層樓！

2019-01-16 00:16:59 | 引用

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有錢人減少開銷恐拖累經濟成長

2019-01-16 06:22:15 | 引用

tricot

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