Economic Freedom of the World: 1975-1995

This well-documented analysis traces the effects of Ontario's 10-year liberalization of welfare benefits and eligibility. The liberalization was intended to give recipients a sense of independence, thereby helping them move into the workforce. However, as Welfare-No Fair demonstrates, rather than reducing caseloads and encouraging independence, Ontario went from being the province with the fewest recipients per capita to the province with the most. As caseloads grew dramatically, more and more families became entangled in the so-called safety net.

The distinguished authors in this volume address key issues facing policymakers in the Americas since the advent of NAFTA - the most important of which is to bring about monetary stability so that market reforms can proceed. Economic liberalization under NAFTA is being threatened by monetary instability in Mexico. If that instability spreads to other Latin American countries, the opportunity for economic integration in the Americas will be weakened.

The current Critical Issues Bulletin is the Institute's fifth attempt to document the extent to which queues are being used as a means of adapting to the conflict between limited budgetary allocations and potentially unlimited demand for free health care.