Traded and Non-traded Services

Traded and Non-traded Services
Author: Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher: IRPP
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1988
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 9780886450663

The service sector is steadily growing as services that previously were undertaken within the family unit, now show up in social accounts as health care, education and public sector services. Technological changes make possible a process of intermediation in service activities, a separation in space or time of the recipient of services from the original producer, and the increase of v̀€alue-added' services. This conference met to discuss implications of the growing service sector, with the larger goal of identifying frameworks for policies to support an efficient and expanding system for production and exchange of services domestically and internationally.

Origins and Meaning of Section 92A

Origins and Meaning of Section 92A
Author: J. Peter Meekison
Publisher: IRPP
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1985
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780886450137

This book is an attempt to answer, to the extent that they can be answered without judicial decisions to clarify some doubtful issues, questions concerning section 92A of the Constitution. Critical questions for the people of Western Canada and the petroleum industry, they include queries concerning the shift in provincial versus federal powers.

Understanding the Free Trade Agreement

Understanding the Free Trade Agreement
Author: Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher: IRPP
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1988
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780886450793

Provides extensive legal analysis of key issues associated with understanding the policy implications of the Agreement. Topics discussed include dispute resolution procedures and the effects of the review mechanism that applies to the trade laws of both countries; technical aspects of the free trade area and some of the specific issues involved in the elaboration of national treatment; Canadian constitutional dimensions and the issues involved in implementation of the Agreement; and the broader implications for Canada's sovereignty.

Ethics and International Relations

Ethics and International Relations
Author: Joel H. Rosenthal
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351939025

This volume offers a new dimension to realist theories about world politics. It questions both the theoretical and empirical foundations of much of traditional realist thought by offering realist-oriented analyses that emphasize the possibilities of cooperation and accommodation through agreement over common motivations and concerns. The articles in this volume demonstrate that moral considerations can and do play a significant role in shaping state behavior and that despair about the possibility of improving the systems and institutions within which we live is unwarranted. Specific points of normative convergence are raised in some detail, especially on issues of war, membership and authority, humanitarian concern and the social consequences of globalization. Three ethical concepts form the core of the 'realism reconsidered' argued for here, namely, the ideas of pluralism, rights and fairness.

Assessing the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

Assessing the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement
Author: Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher: IRPP
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1987
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780886450618

The implementation of the proposed agreement would remove many of the remaining barriers to commerce between Canada and the US, but there remain many details of the proposed Agreement and many potential consequences uncertain. This volume contains the proceedings of a conference that sought to provide a neutral forum to assess the implications for Canada. Analyses the elements of the Agreement, and the regional, sectoral and labour market adjustment issues and broader concerns with respect to cultural, economic and political sovereignty.

Japanese Industrial Targeting

Japanese Industrial Targeting
Author: William R. Nester
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1349212849

Japan achieved it's present economic position by rejecting free trade theory and instead mastering neomercantilist policies which target strategic industries for development with a range of government sponsored cartels, subsidies, import barriers and export incentives. These policies stimulated an economic growth rate which averaged ten percent before 1973, and five percent since, rates four and two times greater than America's during the same periods. This book analyzes the policy making process, implementation, successes, occasional shortcomings, and challenges posed by Tokyo's neomercantilist policies toward its trade rivals.

Knocking on the Back Door

Knocking on the Back Door
Author: Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher: IRPP
Total Pages: 206
Release: 1987
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780886450588

The papers in this volume offer a wide range of perspectives on the Canada-US free trade debate, and on Canada-US trade relations generally. Includes revised versions of papers delivered at a conference organized and sponsored by Carleton University's School of Administration in the fall of 1986. The papers focus on issues of process and politics, including the problems of adjusting to trade liberalization, sovereignty, the negotiating process and the role of social science and many other topics such as the past behaviour of business people adapting to previous trade liberalization, the nature of the actual negotiations, and the role of the provinces in these negotiations.