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AIMS on Campus Announces the 2014-15 Student Fellows
Following a tremendously successful year in 2013-14, AIMS on Campus is happy to announce the 2014-15 student fellows: Rinzin Ngodup Dalhousie University, Development Economics Rinzin is a graduate...
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Envisioning a Better Rural Transportation System
Consider this hypothetical scenario: a very successful company has grown to the point where its consumer base is roughly 100,000, but due to mismanagement, evolving technology, and changes in consumer...
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Three Case Studies of the Municipal Fiscal Crisis
In The Economics of Amalgamation, I discussed some of the structural forces bearing down on Nova Scotia’s cash-strapped municipalities. Rising costs are combining with revenue gaps from commercial...
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Derailing Economic Growth on Cape Breton Island
In a quote that could be easily mistaken for a passage from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) Mayor Cecil Clarke said of the St. Peter’s-Sydney line closure, that “The...
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