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The Great Convergence: Federal Transfer Revenue Shares 1980/81 to 2013/14
Well the Council of the Federation began meeting in St. John’s yesterday and given we are on the cusp of a federal election, there will no doubt be a targeting of Ottawa’s role in provincial finances. Naturally, there will be some lamentations about the Prime Minister’s absence – once again – from this annual meeting. […]
Canadian Convergence
Mark Brown and Ryan MacDonald at Statistics Canada have just released a Research Paper on Canadian provincial convergence and divergence of per capita household disposable income from 1926 to 2011. They find that while there has been convergence over time, it has proceeded in fits and starts with periods of external shock such as the […]
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