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  • Financing Infrastructure

    Who Should Pay?

    Edited by Enid Slack, Richard Bird ...
    Politicians and citizens universally agree that Canada’s urban infrastructure urgently needs work. Roads and bridges are overdue for repair, aging water systems should be replaced, sewage must be adequately treated, urban transit needs to be updated and extended, and it is necessary that public housing as well as schools, health centres, and government offices are brought up to current standards. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Governance and Finance of Metropolitan Areas in Federal Systems

    by Enid Slack, Rupak Chattopadhyay ...
    This volume examines the governing structure and finances of metropolitan areas in federal systems. Taking a comparative approach, each chapter examines two large metropolitan areas in a federal country, including Australia (South East Queensland and Perth); Brazil (Belo Horizonte and São Paulo); Canada (Toronto and Vancouver); Germany (Hamburg and Central Germany); India (Hyderabad and Mumbai); ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Failure of Global Capitalism

    From Cape Breton to Colombia andBeyond

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  • Urban Nation

    Why We Need to Give Power Back to the Cities to Make Canada Strong

    by Alan Broadbent ...
    Canada’s cities are crippled by a lack of financial and governing clout. Their infrastructures are crumbling and their citizens are disaffected by the inability of municipal government—or any government, for that matter—to act on the issues that influence their constituents’ lives. Cities generate a disproportionate amount of Canada’s wealth and are home to the majority of the population, yet they ... Read more

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  • Against the Consensus

    Reflections on the Great Recession

    by Justin Yifu Lin ...
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  • Northern Light: Lessons for America from Canada's Fiscal Fix

    by Niels Veldhuis ...
    As the US wrestles with its growing fiscal crisis, Northern Light examines what lessons Americans and their political leaders might draw from how Canada in the 1990s slew its deficit dragon, balanced the budget, fixed public pensions and social welfare and in so doing helped forge a national consensus in favour of responsible public finances that endures to this day. ... Read more

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  • Foundations of Governance

    Municipal Government in Canada's Provinces

    Edited by Andrew Sancton, Robert A. Young ...
    Municipalities are responsible for many essential services and have become vital agents for implementing provincial policies, including those dealing with the environment, emergency planning, economic development, and land use. In Foundations of Governance, experts from each of Canada's provinces come together to assess the extent to which municipal governments have the capacity to act ... Read more

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  • World Economy After The Global Crisis, The: A New Economic Order For The 21st Century

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  • The Logic of Discipline

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