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The papers presented in this publication cover the following topics: lessons from the past concerning national sovereignty and firms; Canadian responses to globalization; problems of foreign workers; immigration, the Canadian labour force, and structural change; present conditions of globalized private enterprise in Canada; globalization of Japanese enterprise; economic issues shared by Japan and Canada and economic structural adjustment; and international economic integration and national policy diversity.
An analysis of geographic trends in the Canadian economy studying patterns of development, consumption, shifts in employment, and the locational behavior of industries. The 24 essays written by Canadian economic geographers explore themes in regards to the openness of the Canadian economy, its simple economic geography in regional variation of resources and urban development, its rapid advances in technology, and the role of government in national and international markets. Canadian card order number C96-900023-5. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Would you want to live in a factory-molded cube made of plastic, asbestos, and UFFI? With an "H-bomb shelter" and the nuclear furnace underneath? Or a house designed by God to harmonize with the cosmic Muzak? The Canadian Home explains how our housing came to be including the pagan origins of "colonial" homes, why "Tudor" is not Tudor, and where so many predictions went wrong. But the book is not just about tastes and floor plans; it also celebrates technological innovation, from prehistoric Inuit windows (of stretched seal guts) to the R-2000 house and habitation in space. For the first time, records of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association have been opened to reveal the power plays of ...
An indexing, abstracting and document delivery service that covers current Canadian report literature of reference value from government and institutional sources.
A Neoliberal Framework for Urban Housing Development in the Global South highlights the factors which predict urban housing development from developing countries’ perspective, providing a guide for countries in the sub-Sahara.
Essential reading for professional investors, risk managers, regulators, central bankers, and real estate professionals, Risk in the Global Real Estate Market: International Risk Regulation, Mechanism Design, Foreclosures, Title Systems, and REITs takes an international look at the ways in which U.S.-style constitutional laws, financial laws, and real estate laws in various countries affect global economics and risk; and analyzes specific constraints that deter market development such as Asset Liability Matching, inappropriate financial products, land title systems, inefficient constitutions and human biases. The sub-prime mortgage crisis (that began around 2006) and the Global Financial Cri...