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... point is 2007/2008, the year of the cyclical peak. It is followed by the year of the recession,.../1982 and 1990/1992 recessions, the unemployment rate reached monthly peaks of 15.8 percent and 14....
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... and commercial loan loss provisions, a cyclical indicator of a post-recessionary economy. However,... in a higher-rate environment or if unemployment levels deepen. As we look to 2011, will banks be a...
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... past few years of financial crisis and recession. Then it describes possible improvements for Canad... very low rate of inflation increases unemployment permanently because some necessary sectoral adjust... the extent that the existing bias has a cyclical component, the more accurate measure of true infla...
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... Canada Pension Plan ("C.P.P.") and Unemployment Insurance ("U.I.") deductions, and G.S.T. [5] In a...During the recession that hit the construction industry in the late 198... business and had weathered previous cyclical downturns in the industry. His view was that, with...
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...the nation's unemployment rate), and its regional business cycles. Over one ... economic downturn of the early 1990s, a recession which hit manufacturing cities in southern Ontario... these pressures are not likely to be cyclical--that is, to be reversed in the next census or bus...
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From 1961 to 1973, Canada enjoyed robust economic growth, rising tax revenues and rising expenditures, and put in place the last bricks of a comprehensive welfare state: namely, medicare, unemployment insurance and the Canada Pension Plan. Real per capita revenues grew at an astounding seven per cent a year while real per capita spending grew at only a slightly less astounding rate of six per cent.
The concerted expenditure restraint of the mid-1990s, combined with a booming economy, brought the federal deficit and debt situation under control as deficits were converted to surpluses and both the absolute level of debt and the debt-to-GDP ratio fell. The fiscal pain felt in the area of federal health and education transfers to the provinces was substantial.
While the growth rates of real...
... the oil price shock and the 1973-74 recession, which ushered in an era of slower economic growth... whether the deficit is structural or cyclical but the solution remains the same in either case. ...
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What we've got to be sure is that if we do short-term deficit spending as a deliberate policy -- if we do that, we haven't settled on doing that, but if we do that -- we will have to be able to demonstrate to Canadians that those deficits will genuinely be short-term and cyclical, and we will come out of them quickly.
Unless the prime minister thinks the only Canadians who count are the well-heeled, he shouldn't fret at all. No one else will be coming after him because of a deficit -- particularly since he frittered away $12 billion a year in GST cuts whose main objective wasn't to put pennies in people's pockets but to strangle the ability of the federal government to address the basic needs of its citizens.
The next time we comfortable, employed Canadians -- the only Canadians appar...
... 1990s, are now without any form of unemployment insurance and reliant on deeply inadequate provinc...It's just devastating.". In the recession of the early 1990s, many could collect UI for thre...
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... Research, the country slipped into a recession just a few weeks later, in March. Responsibility f... two years after hitting the official cyclical low in November 2001. Between January 2001 and Aug...The unemployment rate was 4.2 percent when Bush was sworn in for th...
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... faible taux d'immigration au cours de recessions economiques. En abandonnant le concept de capacite... labour during periods of high unemployment. Labour also opposed any policy that attempted to ... was substantially altered in response to cyclical fluctuations. The largest adjustments occurred in ...
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... side, it is helpful to look at the cyclical nature of births, because they tend to dictate the... levels in the early '90s, when unemployment was high while the country slid into a recession. ...