Canada is jointly determined and announcedby both the government and the central bank.[...] …[...]Inflation targeting in Canada was not the result oflegislation. However, as in New Zealand, the inflationtarget in …

Economic evaluation has an important role in helping to make decisionsabout the use of scarce resources in an explicit … and rational manner, yeteconomic evaluation is not well-developed in many areas of socialwelfare. This paper looks at the … evaluation may not always be appropriate,because of the nature of many social welfare interventions and becauseevaluators need to …