These barriers are rightly attracting attention in Canada as differences in regional economic performance and shortages of skilled labour are becoming more pronounced, and as demographic challenges intensify. A number of initiatives to remove internal barriers have been undertaken over the years, but with mixed and generally modest results.
The industrial countries should enhance policy coordination, actively open up their markets to developing countries, accelerate the transfer of capital and technology to them, and seriously assume responsibility for preserving the sustainable growth of the global economy.