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Canada has long been characterized by significant regional disparities. Such inequalities can create and exacerbate … regional tensions and lead to demands for further redistribution of wealth. The objective of this study is to report on the …
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In this chapter, Richard Harris points out that a traditional view has been that there is an inherent conflict between economic efficiency and social equality, a view neatly summarized in the title of Okun's famous book, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Trade-off (1975). This view gained renewed...
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In this chapter, Joseph Heath argues that we tend to overestimate the contribution that further productivity growth will make to the welfare of Canadians. Traditionally, productivity growth was thought to contribute to increased leisure time, greater consumer satisfaction, the elimination of...
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In this chapter, Frank Graves examines the relationship between what he describes as the "official economy," as portrayed by conventional measures of economic performance, and public perceptions of the state of the economy. He also considers the public's understanding of the relationship between...
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In this chapter, Daniel Schwanen addresses the impact of the major trade liberalization efforts undertaken by Canada … and its trading partners beginning with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989. The author focuses in … Canada in the 1990s. The author divides Canadian manufacturing industries into five groups according to their sensitivity to …
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Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … Economic Performance and Social Progress is to attempt to fill, at least in part, the lacuna in the literature in Canada on … trends in Canada and OECD countries. The two papers in the second section examine the impact productivity has on government …
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In this chapter, Jim Stanford agrees that measures were needed to eliminate the deficit. But he argues that Paul Martin's program spending cuts were larger than necessary and caused real pain in many areas of Canadian life. He shows that a strategy in which program spending was frozen in nominal...
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income security system. He concludes that on the whole the emerging post-welfare state will better serve Canada's evolving …
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and graduate education have expanded dramatically, leading many more undergraduates to stay in Canada for their graduate … graduate programs, the proportion living outside Canada is and has always been high, reflecting a very international mix of … subsequently living and working in Canada, and especially in British Columbia, is much higher than the share of Canadian citizens …
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can be explained by the acceptance of the federal government of the economic argument that Canada had to switch to a value …
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