The Report Card on Quebec's Secondary Schools: 2006 Edition (hereafter, Report Card) collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, easily accessible public document so that anyone can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools. By doing so, the Report Card assists parents when they choose a school for their children and encourages and assists all those seeking to improve their schools.

The Canadian-US oil and gas sector has become deeply integrated over the last two decades. This is a success story in which competitive market forces by and large have displaced various attempts at government intervention on both sides of the border. Deregulation here does not mean the end or absence of regulation but rather regulatory measures that are geared to optimize free-market exchanges. Without much formal governance, Canada and the United States enjoy the world’s most integrated and efficient energy border. In fact, the border is usually invisible as trade in oil, gas (and also electricity) flows in a patchwork of densely interconnected regions.

Sala-i-Martin's summary assesses world poverty and income inequality using a new measurement tool that estimates the distribution of income among individuals in 138 countries between 1970 and 2000. After reviewing past research on poverty and inequality, the study presents the World Distribution of Income (WDI) in order to analyze global trends in poverty and inequality. The results show that despite the growing income gap between rich and poor countries, world poverty and income inequality fell markedly between 1970 and 2000.