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. One approach sees economic growth leading to environmental degradation by imposing stresses on limited natural resources …. Economic growth, once a certain level is achieved, leads to a cleaner environment as the higher income shifts societal …. In addition, it is argued that economic growth is increasingly service-based, decoupling pollution from economic activity …
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in which program spending was frozen in nominal terms, but not cut, would have produced more growth and employment and …
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monetary policy in the early 1990s hurt growth in the short-term, but they argue that such action was necessary to ratchet down …
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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 reduce interest rates to stimulate the economy and generate revenues. It was imperative that the deficit be eliminated. Tax rates were already high so the government had no...
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that he developed throughout the decade. While not denying that the US economic slowdown in the early 1990s reduced growth …
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running from social conditions and factors to productivity growth. <p> The objective of the second issue of the Review of … balances and natural resources and environmental sustainability. In the third section, four papers explore the relationships …
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The issue of sustainability of natural capital and implications for economic growth ranks high in the interests of both … this chapter, Nancy Olewiler makes an important contribution to the debate on natural resource sustainability by exploring … the crucial, but often ignored, role of productivity in the maintenance of natural capital sustainability. Olewiler …
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This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2007 period. It finds that in 2007 Norway had the highest level of economic...
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This report has two main objectives. The first is to outline the development of the methodology for the measurement of economic security in the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and to provide updated estimates of the Index of Economic Security over the 1980-2007 period for seven developed...
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This report looks at how the economic crisis has unfolded in Canada and what will be the impacts on economic wellbeing. The shortfall is estimated to be approximately $12,000 ($2007) per capita. In other words, given no economic crisis, GDP per capita in Canada would have likely been $1,736...
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