Title & Author:

A Canadian priorities agenda : policy choices to improve economic and social well-being / edited by Jeremy Leonard, Christopher Ragan and France St-Hilaire.

Publication:

Description:

xiv, 573 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Setting the Stage / Jeremy Leonard, Christopher Ragan, France St-Hilaire -- -- pt. I. The Policy Challenges -- Human Capital -- Investing in Human Capital : Policy Priorities for Canada / W. Craig Riddell -- Smart Human Capital Policy : An Alternative Perspective / Serge Coulombe -- Education and Human Capital : Reconciling Policy Imperatives and Policy Design / Jane Gaskell -- -- Climate Change -- Canadian Policies for Deep Greenhouse Gas Reductions / Mark Jaccard, Nic Rivers -- Slowing, Then Reducing, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Is Important but Will Not Be Easy / Christopher Green -- Time to Actually Begin / James Meadowcroft -- -- Natural Capital -- Securing Natural Capital and Ecoiogical Goods and Services for Canada / Nancy Olewiler -- Innovative Conservation Policies for Canada That Really Integrate the Environment and the Economy / Wiktor Adamowicz -- Nature as Capital : Concerns and Considerations / Peter A. Victor -- -- Population Aging -- Some Economic and Social Consequences of Population Aging / David K. Foot -- Population Aging : The Risk of Tunnel Vision / Peter Hicks -- Population Aging : Better than the Alternative / Susan A. McDaniel -- -- Economic Security -- A Better Income Security System for All Canadians / Jean-Yves Duclos -- An Alternative Proposal on Income Security / David A. Green -- The Practitioner's Perspective on Income Security Reform / Kathy O'Hara, Allen Sutherland -- -- Health Outcomes -- Improving Health Outcomes in Canada / Robert Evans, Clyde Hertzman, Steve Morgan -- Next Steps in the Health Policy Wars? / Raisa Deber -- Canada's High Poverty Rate Is the Greatest Impediment to Better Health Outcomes / Dennis Raphael -- -- Productivity -- Three Policies to Increase Productivity Growth in Canada / Andrew Sharpe -- An Altemative Policy Script to Boost Canadian Productivity Growth / Don Drummond -- The Canadian Productivity Conundrum / Richard G. Harris -- -- Trade and Globalization -- Canadian Engagement in the Global Economy / Michael Hart -- Constructing Constructive Engagement / Jonathan T. Fried -- Engage the United States, Forget the Rest? / Keith Head -- -- pt. II. The Policy Choices -- Rising to the Challenges of Economic Transformation / Wendy Dobson -- Drawing a Policy Road Map for Canada / Alain Dubuc -- Choosing Policies to Build and Sustain Well-Being / John F. Helliwell -- Navigating the Shoals : The Search for Canadian Policy Solutions / Richard G. Lipsey -- Policy Priorities for Canada : Making Choices / Carolyn Hughes Tuohy -- Think Small and Do No Harm / William Watson -- -- pt. III. The Implications -- Epilogue : Some Reflections on the Judges' Policy Choices / Jeremy Leonard, Christopher Ragan, France St-Hilaire.

Summary:

"A Canadian Priorities Agenda is the culmination of a two year IRPP project designed to initiate a broad-based and informed public debate on the economic and social policy choices and priorities for Canada over the medium term. The underlying theme of the project is scarcity of resources and the need for choice: the everyday reality for policy-makers is that governments have limited means at their disposal - be it revenue, manpower or political capital - and must therefore choose carefully which policies to pursue and which to leave behind."--Publisher's website.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780886452032
0886452031

Subject:

Political planning Canada.
Environmental policy Canada.
Politique publique Canada.
Environnement Politique gouvernementale Canada.
Economic policy
Environmental policy
Political planning
Social policy
Sozialpolitik
Wirtschaftspolitik
Umweltpolitik
Canada Social policy.
Canada Economic policy.
Canada Economic policy 1991-
Canada Politique sociale.
Canada Politique économique 1991-
Canada
Kanada

Added entries:

St-Hilaire, France.
Ragan, Christopher T. S.
Leonard, Jeremy, 1967-
Institute for Research on Public Policy.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308330
Call No.: BIB 253751
Status: Available