Businesses in Canada invest billions of dollars to foster innovation and efficiency and some of these funds support training to improve communications between managers and staff that can enable this process. This paper reports on an evaluation of a professional communications training program...

Mobile banking places a wide set of financial services – transferring money for savings, investment, paying bills, to relatives – into the palm of a person's hand. Mobile money transfers have rapidly grown in Kenya, Tanzania, the Philippines, and is set to grow rapidly in Bangladesh in the...

This report, Control, Sufficiency, and Social Support: Lessons from Low-income Canadians about Financial Wellbeing, examines how diary participants achieve the financial wellbeing that they have. The evidence we found is that low-income people work very hard to manage their finances. They...

The Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project is a project which explores the financial health of low-and modest-middle income Canadians. Using the financial diaries methodology, this research looks at both the barriers and opportunities which can impact financial well-being. Both quantitative...

This summary is the second in a series describing the financial health of low- and modest-middle income participants involved in the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project. The participants in this group were purposefully selected because their employment situations during their...

This summary is the third in a series describing the financial health of low- and modest-middle income participants involved in the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project. The seven participants in this summary were selected because they were all employed full-time. This summary aims to...

Cities are a significant source of economic growth and prosperity, but they may also contribute to social problems. In particular, the dynamics of urban spatial structure may exacerbate such problems as unemployment and poverty in the inner city. In this paper we examine a more recent but...

Although Canada has achieved relatively strong levels of social and economic equity, some indicators point to a decline in equity during the 1990s and 2000s. The changing role of the state helps to explain this change as does the process of financialization. Financialization – the growth in...

This report examines four distinct and geographically dispersed projects referred to here as community banking projects. The projects identified are Pigeon Park Savings (PPS, Vancouver), the Community Financial Services Centre (CFSC, Winnipeg), the Cash & Save (Toronto) and the Fonds...

The Canadian Financial Diaries is a multi-year project that seeks to capture the finances and financial experiences of low- and modest-income earners in Canada. The participants in this group were selected because of their unemployed status. The group of largely unemployed diarists have...