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Canada's governments have regularly missed budget spending and revenue targets during the last decade. Taken together …
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The federal integrity agencies that are delegated collective responsibility for public sector oversight in Canada face … framework to theorize the objectives that shape political preferences for agency independence in Canada, and to suggest that …
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accruals in Ireland for government accounting. Due to issues with the comprehensiveness and legibility of the current financial … international standards for its departments and offices and harmonise accounting standards used by entities within the general … risks. Beyond the adoption of accrual accounting, this report proposes that the Irish Government considers modernising its …
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This paper discusses an alternative route to a balanced budget, namely through debt control. Two models are compared: the debt brake which has been used in Switzerland since 2003 and the debt limitation model proposed by Compact for America. The paper concludes that the former, while apparently...
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We compare the size, structure and evolution of the public sectors in Canada and the United States primarily using … national income accounting data. In the course of this investigation, which is accompanied by a substantial spreadsheet … size of government (relative to GDP) between the U.S. and Canada over a long period, as well as in some aspects of …
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The Canadian government has a policy of searching laptop computers at airports and other border crossings. It is considered an outrageous policy by those who have been subjected to this gross invasion of privacy, and it has drawn some press attention. The Canadian courts have yet to rule on the...
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