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Quebec’s relative growth performance with Ontario has always been an issue of concern for economic historians. In his paper Pierre Fortin discusses trends in Quebec’s real domestic income relative to that in Ontario over the last half-century. He finds that per capita real domestic income in...
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Canada than in the United States in both years. …
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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 … as health spending, research and university financing, where funding support has risen much less rapidly than in the … graduate programs, the proportion living outside Canada is and has always been high, reflecting a very international mix of …
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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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. Scott first reviews the history of environmental policy in England, the United States and Canada. He then examines the …. The paper then compares what economists do in Canada in the environmental area compared to that in the United States …, finding that academic environmental economists in Canada specialize more in theory and show little knowledge or interest in …
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