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Distributional Outcomes in Canada During the 1990s
Heisz, Andrew; Jackson, Andrew; Picot, Garnett - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481815
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China’s Productivity Performance and its Impact on Poverty in the Transition Period
Standards, Centre for the Study of Living - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
The objective of this report is to document China’s productivity performance since 1978 and determine its impact on poverty. The report finds that China has made substantial progress in economic development since economic reform started in 1978. Strong economic growth has been fuelled by rapid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481829
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Productivity Growth and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries
Standards, Centre for the Study of Living - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
The United Nations has set as a goal for the world community the halving of the rate of poverty between 1990 and 2015. Previous literature and empirical work provides a strong consensus that growth reduces poverty, and several recent studies have also found that the higher is income inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481839
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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481840
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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650207
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The Impact of the National Child Benefit Supplement on the Low Income Status of Canadian Families with Children: The SPSD/M Results
Standards, Centre for the Study of Living - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2002
Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292734
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Poverty Among Senior Citizens: A Canadian Success Story
Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)
Income Supplement in 1968 and the reduction in poverty after 1973 to the maturing of the Canada/Quebec Pension Plan regimes … universal medicare. Osberg also finds that relative to the United States, Sweden and the United Kingdom, Canada has done the … best job in boosting the income levels of seniors above the poverty line. In his view, Canada has done a remarkable job in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481823
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Trade Liberalization and Inequality in Canada in the 1990s
Schwanen, Daniel - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518909
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Canada 2030: An Agenda for Sustainable Development
Kindornay, Shannon; Standards, Centre for the Study of … - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2015
countries by 2030, including Canada. This report takes an in-depth look at what the SDGs could mean for Canada, providing a … environment, infrastructure, governance and international cooperation in Canada. Key themes discussed include global and national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185571
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A Survey of Indicators of Economic and Social Well-being
Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 1999
Index (HDI) generates considerable media interest, particularly in Canada. Equally, the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI … in debates on the inadequacies of GDP as a welfare measure. Many communities in Canada and in the United States have … developed for Canada; single versus multiple indicator approaches; money versus composite indicators; weighting issues in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292733