Author : G. Bruce Doern
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773588523
A broad look at attempts to address economic crises by various governments, with insights into how budget decisions are made.
Author : Michael J. Prince
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0773598820
The Canada Pension Plan disability benefit is a monthly payment available to disabled citizens who have contributed to the CPP and are unable to work regularly at any job. Covering the program’s origins, early implementation, liberalization of benefits, and more recent restraint and reorientation of this program, Struggling for Social Citizenship is the first detailed examination of the single largest public contributory disability plan in the country. Focusing on broad policy trends and program developments and highlighting the role of cabinet ministers, members of Parliament, public servants, policy advisors, and other political actors, Michael Prince examines the pension reform agendas and records of the Pearson, Trudeau, Mulroney, Chrétien, Martin, and Harper prime ministerial eras. Shedding light on the immediate world of applicants and clients of the CPP disability benefit, this study reviews academic literature and government documents, features interviews with officials, and provides an analysis of administrative data regarding trends in expenditures, caseloads, decisions, and appeals related to CPP disability benefits. Struggling for Social Citizenship looks into the ways in which disability has been defined in programs and distinguished from ability in given periods, how these distinctions have operated, been administered, contested and regulated, as well as how, through income programs, disability is a social construct and administrative category. Weaving together literature on social policy, political science, and disability studies, Struggling for Social Citizenship produces an innovative evaluation of Canadian citizenship and social rights.
Author : G. Bruce Doern
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0773598995
Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy presents new critical analysis about related developments in the field such as significantly changed concepts of peer review, merit review, the emergence of big data in the digital age, and the rise of an economy and society dominated by the internet and information. The authors scrutinize the different ways in which federal and provincial policies have impacted both levels of government, including how such policies impact on Canada’s natural resources. They also study key government departments and agencies involved with science, technology, and innovation to show how these organizations function increasingly in networks and partnerships, as Canada seeks to keep up and lead in a highly competitive global system. The book also looks at numerous realms of technology across Canada in universities, business, and government and various efforts to analyze biotechnology, genomics, and the Internet, as well as earlier technologies such as nuclear reactors, and satellite technology. The authors assess whether a science-and-technology-centred innovation economy and society has been established in Canada – one that achieves a balance between commercial and social objectives, including the delivery of public goods and supporting values related to redistribution, fairness, and community and citizen empowerment. Probing the nature of science advice across prime ministerial eras, including recent concerns over the Harper government’s claimed muzzling of scientists in an age of attack politics, Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy provides essential information for academics and practitioners in business and government in this crucial and complex field.
Author : Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1616405414
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.
Author : Gregory Albo
Publisher :
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773554742
A groundbreaking assessment of subnational politics in Canada's largest province.
Author : George M. Guess
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107198291
This analysis of budgetary systems and policies across the world examines how politics, culture, and economics influence public finance.
Author : Amanda M. Klasing
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Drinking water
ISBN : 9781623133634
"The report, 'Make It Safe: Canada's Obligation to End the First Nations Water Crisis,' documents the impacts of serious and prolonged drinking water and sanitation problems for thousands of indigenous people--known as "First Nations"--living on reserves. It assesses why there are problems with safe water and sanitation on reserves, including a lack of binding water quality regulations, erratic and insufficient funding, faulty or sub-standard infrastructure, and degraded source waters. The federal government's own audits over two decades show a pattern of overpromising and underperforming on water and sanitation for reserves"--Publisher's description.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Economics
ISBN :
Author : Will Bateman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108478115
Explores financial aspects of constitutional government, focusing on central banking, sovereign borrowing, taxation and public expenditure.
Author : Donald J. Savoie
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This volume contains a selection of the most important articles spanning over 20 years on budgeting and managing public spending. It is divided into five parts, covering the main areas of the field including the political-economic environment, approaches to expenditure budgeting and implementing the budget. There are examples from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada and Spain
