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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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In her paper, Sylvia Ostry argues that if China had joined the GATT, the negotiations would have been far easier since market access under GATT was mainly about border barriers. But since the Uruguay Round the concept of market access has been extended to include not only domestic regulatory...
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Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty …
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In this chapter, Don Drummond makes the case that with large deficits there was little room for the Bank of Canada to … argues that the elimination of the deficit has reduced risk premia and allowed the Bank of Canada to bring interest rates …
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in Canada, Fortin lays the blame for the inferior economic performance of the Canadian economy relative to the U ….S. economy squarely on the back of the Bank of Canada, and dismisses structural explanations of the recession as lacking an …
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is essential to an overall understanding of the fall in labour force participation in the 1990s in Canada. In the fifth … labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s. They disaggregate the youth participation rate into three components: the …
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distributional changes that have occurred in Canada in the 1990s as well as useful comparative perspectives both in terms of trends … income in Canada during the 1990s. …
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links between monetary policy and the economic well-being of Canadians. The Bank of Canada economists do admit that tight …
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reduce the double-taxation of saving. The main elements of public policy related to pensions in Canada cover these pillars …-pillar metaphor is still a fruitful perspective because it facilitates constructive responses to the pressures confronting Canada … policy”. Based on his examination of Canada’s pension and health-care systems, Robson makes a number of recommendations …
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that has occurred in Canada over the past 20 years. Boadway makes the case that the fiscal arrangements have played an … an overall vision is needed. Unfortunately, Canada does not have an institution like the former Economic Council that is …
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