Old Age Pensions and Policy-Making in Canada

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, May 1, 1974 - Business & Economics - 275 pages
Revised thesis comprising a case study of the old age benefit programme in Canada, to illustrate the political aspects and social policy decision making processes of income redistribution - includes references and statistical tables.
 

Contents

1 Framework of the Study
1
2 Market Ethos versus Environmental Want
19
3 Early Pressures for Public Pensions and the Government Annuities Plan
45
4 MeansTest Pensions 1927
61
5 Implementation of the 1927 Plan
81
6 Universal Pensions 1951
103
7 Contributory Pensions 1965
129
8 Shaping the 1965 Design
147
9 Public Pensions and the Policy Spiral
183
NOTES
213
INDEX
253
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