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What does an ‘economic recovery’ really mean? - Nov 8, 2010 - 3:46 pm

Professor Peter Dungan of the Department of Economics comments

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The news reports say Canada has entered a state of economic recovery. So why hasn’t everything gone back to normal yet? Professor Peter Dungan of the Department of Economics, who is a member of a team that develops forecasts for the Canadian economy, explains why. What has the Canadian recovery been like? The Canadian recovery [...]

How will the world economy get better? - Nov 20, 2008 - 12:04 pm

One-on-one with Peter Dungan, professor of business economics, Rotman School of Management and director of U of T’s Policy and Economic Analysis Program

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Q. You make economic forecasts and analyze economic policy – what are you seeing with today’s economic crisis? The world economies will eventually equilibrate. They will adjust themselves. It may take time, but problems tend to balance themselves out, prices adjust, people’s demands adjust to the production of the economy. It takes time, but the [...]