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Public Services and Regional Development in Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

T. K. Shoyama
T. K. Shoyama
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Economic Council of Canada
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Throughout the first hundred years of Canadian Confederation, an underlying problem in the struggle to “unite and integrate the separate regions” in a viable national economy has been the continuing interaction between disparate rates of regional economic growth and unequal levels of regional public services. This paper is an attempt to set out in a general way the extent and significance of differences in regional expenditures by government in Canada and to inquire into their possible relationships with variations in rates of growth and levels of regional per capita incomes. It also indicates a spatial distribution of public expenditures at all three levels of government and notes some implications for national and regional development policy currently in the forefront of public debate in Canada.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , December 1966 , pp. 498 - 513
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1966

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