Finance

Finance is a term for matters regarding the management, creation, and study of money and investments. Specifically, it deals with the questions of how and why an individual, company or government acquires the money needed – called capital in the company context – and how they spend or invest that money. Finance is then often split into the following major categories: corporate finance, personal finance and public finance.At the same time, and correspondingly, finance is about the overall "system" – i.e., the financial markets that allow the flow of money, via investments and other financial instruments, between and within these …

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Fraser Institute · 6 February 2025 English

This bulletin assesses the extent to which the Smith government has increased spending since its original plan in the 2022 mid-year fiscal update and puts Alberta’s current risk of budget …

as of October 18, 2024. Canada, Department of Finance [DOF] (2024). Fiscal Reference Tables October 2024 of Canada. <https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/services/publications/fiscal-reference- tables/2024 Panel on Alberta’s Finances. Treasury Board and Finance. <https://www.alberta.ca/mackinnon-report-on-finances>


Fraser Institute · 6 February 2025 English

This bulletin assesses the extent to which the Smith government has increased spending since its original plan in the 2022 mid-year fiscal update and puts Alberta’s current risk of budget …

as 2022 that would help stabilize provincial finance, and they should revive that plan to ensure balanced


Fraser Institute · 4 February 2025 English

The British Columbia government announced one of the most remarkable tax changes in 2001 by enacting, among other changes, a reform of the personal income tax (PIT) rate that cut …

increases, it may be obliged to raise tax rates to finance its larger budget deficit. Thus, a budget deficit fraserinstitute.org References British Columbia, Ministry of Finance and Corporate Relations [BC MinFin&CR] (2001a) October 21, 2024. British Columbia, Ministry of Finance [BC MinFin] (2001b). Tax Cut Fact Sheet. Economic October 21, 2024. British Columbia, Ministry of Finance [BC MinFin] (2001c). Tax Relief, Sound Fiscal Man- January 21, 2025. British Columbia, Ministry of Finance [BC MinFin] (2024). Budget 2024: Taking Action


Fraser Institute · 4 February 2025 English

Canada is experiencing historically low levels of economic growth that are contributing to an extended decline in Canadian living standards, yet current federal fiscal policy will only make things worse …

budget in 2004/05 (British Columbia, Ministry of Finance, 2001). This paper models how the federal government until at least 2028/29 (Canada, Department of Finance, 2024a, 2024b). These deficits are being driven trillion (94.8 percent) (Canada, Department of Finance, 2024a, 2024b). Growing government debt imposes White Paper on taxation (Canada, Department of Finance, 1987). That comprehensive review ultimately led eliminating several tax credits (Canada, Department of Finance, 2015). Rather than a broad reform that covers


Canada Department of Finance · 1 February 2025 English

Today, the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs, and the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that the Government of Canada is moving

Today, the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs, and the Honourable


Fraser Institute · 31 January 2025 English

The findings in Thinking About Poverty: Helping the Poor; What are the options? demonstrate that employment-based policies provide a more lasting solution to poverty than redistributionist government programs such as …

Assistance Plan (CAP) and the Established Programs Finance (EPF). Unlike the previous dollar-for-dollar cost-sharing


Canada Department of Finance · 31 January 2025 English

Yesterday, Chris Forbes, Deputy Minister of Finance, hosted the third briefing with Canadian industry and labour stakeholders, and provincial and territorial representatives on Canada-U.S. economic issues

Yesterday, Chris Forbes, Deputy Minister of Finance, hosted the third briefing with Canadian industry


Canada Department of Finance · 31 January 2025 English

Today, the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs, announced that the federal government is deferring—from June 25, 2024 to January 1, 2026—the date on which the

Today, the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs, announced that the


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 31 January 2025 English

This publication outlines gender-responsive mining policies that support skills, employment, and inclusive governance in Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mauritania, and South Africa.

(Ovadia, 2022). Programs that facilitate access to finance, training, and market linkages are essential to economic empowerment. 3. Providing direct access to finance can promote economic autonomy for women and have accumulation of assets, and savings derived from finance access allow individuals and families to better


Fraser Institute · 28 January 2025 English

While health care is under provincial jurisdiction in Canada, the federal government wields considerable influence over provincial health care policy. Provinces must adhere to the Canada Health Act (CHA) in …

Health Transfer (CHT), see Canada, Department of Finance (2022). See Canada, (2023, February 7) for the include: changing how the province decides to finance or remunerate its hospitals and how the province’s provinces have experimented with changes in how they finance their hospitals and how they handle referrals as of August 26, 2024. Canada, Department of Finance. (2022). Canada Health Transfer. Government of Canada. <https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/federal-transfers/canada- health-transfer


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