Examining the forces of globalization and debt and their impact on social policy in a number of countries, Social Policy in the Global Economy focuses on the fiscal dimension of social policy and offers important policy lessons for complex and rapidly changing times.
Examining the forces of globalization and debt and their impact on social policy in a number of countries, Social Policy in the Global Economy focuses...
Health Care addresses pressing economic challenges that Canada's health care system is facing and explores innovations and initiatives in program design and delivery that enhance the quality and affordability of health care.
Health Care addresses pressing economic challenges that Canada's health care system is facing and explores innovations and initiatives in program desi...
The fiscal crisis facing Canadian governments, economic restructuring, and rapid change in labour markets are generating powerful pressures for reform of federal-provincial financial arrangements and the social programs they sustain. The Future of Fiscal Federalism brings together leading experts from across the country to explore current problems and suggest solutions.
The fiscal crisis facing Canadian governments, economic restructuring, and rapid change in labour markets are generating powerful pressures for reform...
How Many Roads...? addresses regionalization and decentralization in health care from the perspective of health care providers and consumers at a time when Canada's health care system faces change and financial constraints.
How Many Roads...? addresses regionalization and decentralization in health care from the perspective of health care providers and consumers at a time...
The majority of the more than one million lone parent families in Canada live below the poverty line. To evaluate the effectiveness of Canadian policies in helping low-income, lone parent families, Terrance Hunsley compares the final income of five different types of families in ten countries and draws on interviews conducted with lone parents in the same set of countries.
The majority of the more than one million lone parent families in Canada live below the poverty line. To evaluate the effectiveness of Canadian polici...
The global economy and technological changes have dramatically altered the nature of labour markets. In this context, sub-national governments play an increasingly important role in labour market policy. In Canada, for instance, provinces have extensive powers to help the unemployed and those on social assistance to move into the labour market. Precarious Values analyses the efforts of three Ontario governments in the 1980s and 1990s, led by three different political parties, to design organizations and policies to help the unemployed acquire vocational skills. Thomas Klassen focuses on the...
The global economy and technological changes have dramatically altered the nature of labour markets. In this context, sub-national governments play an...
Concerns over Canada's ability to compete in the global economy persist despite its relatively improved economic performance in recent years. The key to success in this global economy lies in our capacity to innovate - the ability to develop new, or significantly improved, services, products, production techniques, or management methods - and the capacity to sustain those innovations. The challenge of competing in a global, knowledge-based economy accentuates our need to understand how the innovation process operates in the context of Canada's diverse regional economies. Attempts to...
Concerns over Canada's ability to compete in the global economy persist despite its relatively improved economic performance in recent years. The key ...
Are political and socio-economic issues handled in a radically different manner in a federal Canada than a devolved Britain? To what extent in both states have administrative arrangements and developments in public policy begun to by-pass constitutional forms and debates? Are the real loci of power in each better identified by 'following the money' than by constitutional and legal provisions? If the arrangements between the state capitals and the constituent parts of Canada and Britain are becoming more ad hoc, individual and varied, what problems does this pose for the continuing cohesion of...
Are political and socio-economic issues handled in a radically different manner in a federal Canada than a devolved Britain? To what extent in both st...
Governing food creates friction in transatlantic relations, complicates Britain's relations with its EU partners, and poses challenges to Canada's relations with the United States. The essays in Governing Food, written by distinguished public officials, academics, and industry and civil society commentators, examine the three pillars of food safety - science, regulation, and industry - to highlight the pressures on government. Contributors include Charles Cockbill, chairman of the European Food Law Association of the UK; Neville Craddock, group regulatory affairs manager, Nestle UK; Lorne...
Governing food creates friction in transatlantic relations, complicates Britain's relations with its EU partners, and poses challenges to Canada's rel...
