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play, we study the nature of relations between local and central government in Canada, the United-Kingdom, Sweden and Chile …, financières ou politiques. Mais dans la plupart des pays, incluant le Canada, prévaut un facteur encore plus déterminant que ces …
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This study deals with the evolution of the financing of large Canadian companies from 1960 to 1994. Part I shows that … there hass been no significant increase in total corporate debt in Canada, as there has been in the U.S. Total indebtness … between financing choices on the one hand and economic and market conditions on the other. Financing choices are measured by …
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This description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic policies that could be adapted to the Quebec context. To better understand these innovations, the cases of Bavaria, Ireland, and New-Zealand were studied and lessons for Quebec...
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at restricting these outlays and towards a "growth management"" attitude. Such an attitude also proves compatible with … the conclusions of the numerous public reports recently published in Canada on healthcare and healthcare funding, which … nombreux rapports publics récemment publiés au Canada sur la question des soins de santé et de leur financement, et qui …
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This paper first recalls the high level of public indebtedness in Quebec. A literature review and a description of the evolution of the problematics, carried out by the means of a retrospective analysis as well as a projection exercise, show (1) the "uncoupling"" of the public finances that...
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Many recent empirical studies have shown that recent cohorts of immigrants to western countries face more hardship than previous cohorts. In Quebec, for instance, the welfare dependency rates of immigrants have steadily increased between 1982 and 1998 and are insensitive to fluctuations in the...
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This study compares Quebec's tax effort with that of the other Canadian provinces. The results show that the tax effort is higher in Quebec than in any other Canadian province. In the first section, the authors expose the global situation that currently prevails in Quebec. In the second section,...
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Financing. The study first presents a brief history of equalization and the evolution of its main parameters. The principal …
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This paper investigates the work incentives aspect of the new tax credit called Prime au travail introduced by the Quebec government in January 2005. The problem of work incentives is discussed and a review of the literature pertaining to the American, English and French experiences in this...
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As part of the 2003-2004 budget, the finance minister announced the imposition of a moratorium on certain fiscal policies related to the REA. In the advent of the termination of the moratorium in the next budget (2005-2006), the goal of this study is to find certain alternatives which could be...
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