, Japan, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and the USA, between 1970 and 2010. We find that foreign direct investment, trade openness … openness, using panel-VAR methods in relation to ten significant OECD countries: Austria, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Ireland …

shrinking size of Canadian families. This paper uses OECD and Statistics Canada equivalence scales to examine the level and … distribution of equivalent money income in 1975, 1981,1984, 1989 and 1994, using SCF micro-data and concentrates on inequality …

influence of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the sources of real exchange rate fluctuations in the USA and Canada … volatility in the USA and Canada have been changed because of the increase of the bilateral trade and investment between both …

New Zealands average income, defined as GDP per capita, is now three quarters that of Australia and even lower than in … Australias poorest state, Tasmania. Over the last seven years, New Zealand has grown slightly faster than Australia, but at these … rates, it would still take 140 years to close the trans-Tasman income gap. To catch up with Australia in five to 10 years …

New Zealand’s average income, defined as GDP per capita, is now three quarters that of Australia and even lower than in … Australia’s poorest state, Tasmania. Over the last seven years, New Zealand has grown slightly faster than Australia,but at … these rates, it would still take 140 years to close the trans-Tasman incomegap. To catch up with Australia in five to 10 …

, namely Australia, Canada and Israel for the period 1965-2009. The empirical investigation is based on panel co …

South Africa's democratic transition in 1994 created expectations of a dramatic turnaround in the economic performance …