Scientific writing about neo-rurality in Quebec remains quite rare and has mainly focused on the experience of newcomers while offering little perspective of the greater ensemble. The present article sheds new light in this regard using qualitative data collected during research conducted in two...

This article on empowerment in Quebec and Canada focuses on the capacity of citizens to create new institutional spaces in which they play a decisive role in designing socio-economic development strategies. Drawing on the concept of empowered participatory governance developed by Erik Olin...

Can we still set farmers against non-farmers, locals against new-migrants in the contemporary rurality ? Proposing the notion of communities of relationships with the landscape as a new framework for the analysis of the rural populations, this article intends to show the contribution of the...

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, drawing on the work undertaken on components of local economies based on externally generated residential development, we seek to examine how the presence of neo-ruralites has revitalized the economy of the village of Saint-Mathieu-de-Rioux, a rural...

L'implantation du Lean à l'hôpital suscite des débats sur les conséquences de cette nouvelle forme d'organisation du travail pour les professionnels qui y travaillent. L'objectif de cet article est d'en rendre compte de manière théorique et pratique. Après avoir défini les principes du...

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...

The positive social return on most health expenditure leads us to suggest a shift in Quebec to move away from attempts 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...

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...

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...

Ce papier estime l'évolution de la pauvreté au Québec et au Canada de 1996 à 2005 ainsi que les effets des principaux impôts et transferts aux particuliers sur l'allégement de la pauvreté. Cette analyse valide et complète les évaluations de certains organismes officiels tels que...