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"Over the two decades following the Second World War, the policy that would create "a nation of immigrants," as Canadian multiculturalism is now widely understood, was debated, drafted, and implemented. The established narrative of postwar immigration policy as a tepid mixture of altruism and national self-interest does not fully explain the complex process of policy transformation during that period. In The Least Possible Fuss and Publicity Paul Evans recounts changes to Canada's postwar immigration policy and the events, ideas, and individuals that propelled that change. Through extensive primary research in the archives of federal departments and the parliamentary record, together with contemporary media coverage, the correspondence of politicians and policy-makers, and the statutes that set immigration policy, Evans reconstructs the formation of a modern immigration bureaucracy, the resistance to reform from within, and the influence of racism and international events. He shows that political concerns remained uppermost in the minds of policy-makers, and those concerns - more than economic or social factors - provided the major impetus to change. In stark contrast to today, legislators and politicians strove to keep the evolution of the national immigration strategy out of the public eye: University of Toronto law professor W.G. Friedmann remarked in a 1952 edition of Saturday Night, "In Canada, both the government and the people have so far preferred to let this immigration business develop with the least possible fuss and publicity." This is the story, told largely in their own words, of politicians and policy-makers who resisted change and others who saw the future and seized upon it. The Least Possible Fuss and Publicity is a clear account of how postwar immigration policy transformed, gradually opening the border to groups who sought to make Canada home."--

The deepening strategic rivalry between China and the United States has military, diplomatic, ideological, trade, financial and commercial dimensions. One is in the area of emerging and transformative technologies in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that has spawned a techno-nationalist competition with global implications including for universities. This article outlines the American government's efforts in managing research and training interactions with China and their implications for other countries, Canada and Singapore in particular.

Este artículo examina una ecuación de Euler para el consumo per capita a fin de investigar si la seguridad social aumenta el consumo ceteris paribus en 17 países. Con base en el trabajo seminal de Feldstein, la bibliografía ha estimado funciones de consumo para resolver este interrogante. Desafortunadamente, las funciones de consumo confunden los parámetros estructurales y los de expectativas, lo que torna problemática su interpretación. Además, si sus variables son estacionarias en las diferencias, el método de mínimos cuadrados podría producir estimaciones paramétricas incongruentes y en la virtual totalidad de los casos debe producir errores estándares inconsistentes para los parámetros estimados. En cambio, con supuestos razonables, el método generalizado de los momentos estima congruentemente los parámetros y los errores estándares de las ecuaciones de Euler. Además, los parámetros son interpretables con más facilidad. El ensayo encuentra grandes pruebas de que la seguridad social aumenta el consumo ceteris paribus. Además, las estimaciones de coeficientes implican grandes efectos negativos en las tasas de crecimiento del acervo de capital, la producción y el consumo a lo largo de sus tasas de crecimientoequilibrado, o bien en sus niveles.