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• January 30, 1998

  Bank Rate Raised to 5 Per Cent

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today raised its Bank Rate by ½ of one percentage point to 5 per cent.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• January 29, 1998

  Annual Report 1997

  

  With inflation remaining low for the sixth consecutive year, the Canadian economy recorded a strong expansion of about 4 per cent through 1997.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Annual Report
• January 14, 1998

  Bank of Canada Review - Winter 1997-1998

  

  Cover page

  Mafeking siege note

  This ten-shilling note measures 6 1/4 by 5 3/4 inches and forms part of the National Currency Collection, Bank of Canada.

  Photography by James Zagon.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review

• Food Aid Delivery, Food Security and Aggregate Welfare in a Small Open Economy: Theory and Evidence

  Staff Working Paper 1998-1 Patrick Osakwe

  A small-open-economy model is developed to examine how the method of food aid disbursement affects labor employment, food security and aggregate welfare, in recipient countries, in an environment in which private sector firms pay efficiency wages to induce effort. Two forms of food aid delivery are considered: first is project food aid, under which food […]

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Development economics JEL Code(s): J, J4, O, O1, Q, Q1