Good Enough for Government Work
Good Enough for Government Work, the latest edition of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies’ annual review of provincial finances, finds that no province stands out with a gold medal performance. Or, to use a more appropriate analogy for early April, there are few home runs; rather, provinces are more ...
Could Do Better – West
This is an extension of AIMS' successful Could Do Better series, which evaluates the status of provincial finances. The Institute has published three such papers for the Atlantic Provinces. This is the first for Western Canada, and a forerunner to a national Could Do Better series. To determine a single ...
Could Do Better 3
Could Do Better 3 is proof of the troubling trend that has been keeping Atlantic Canadians either in the poorhouse or on their way to Fort McMurray; governments have not learned the lessons that out of control spending increases and crushing debt should have taught them. Lower taxes, spending restraint ...
Too Many Cooks
Equalization and fiscal imbalance have moved from the back pages, to front page headlines across the country. Under Canada’s constitutionally entrenched equalization system, provinces with lower-than-average fiscal capacities receive transfers from the federal government that vary acccording to the amount of their shortfall in fiscal capacity. Recent recommendations for changes ...
Could Do Better 2
Fiscal health, budgetary accuracy, and budgetary impact are a hit and miss proposition in Atlantic Canada concludes the latest AIMS paper “Could Do Better 2: Grading Atlantic Canada’s 2005/2006 provincial finances” by Dr. David Murrell and Bruce Winchester. Says Murrell, an economics professor at UNB, “promises of balanced budgets, fiscal ...
