The JOURNAL
USA v Canada: Economics, Politics, Culture
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(# 4, April 2001)
NEW PRIORITIES IN CANADIAN ECONOMIC POLICY
What reforms in the sphere of budget-tax policy did the Liberal party pro-pose in her pre-election platform which allowed to win the general elections at November 27, 2000?
Whether the updatings of the budget-tax policy in Canada are carried out "voluntary", or forcefully?
How does the American tax-investment regime influence Canada? What main problems have been arisen during last years in Canadian-American trade-economic relations?
What priorities are standing before the federal social-economic policy of Canada?
Whether a "uniform" rate of income tax — as in Russia — is possible in Canada?
What are the rates of surtaxes in Canada for the companies with different levels of profits?
What is the preferential mode of taxation of traditional manufacturing in-dustries in Canada and how it will be changed in the nearest future?
How are the research and innovative activities supported in Canada, as well as the higher education and science?
How does the Canadian Federal Fund of Technological Partnership (CFFTP) function?
What is the essence of conflict between CFFTP actions and WTO require-ments?
Analytical answers to such questions are presented by a Candidate of Economics, Section Head, ISCRAN, Mrs. NEMOVA Lyudmila A.
GEORGE W. BUSH, Jr's ADMINISTRATION
What were the main legal features of presidential elections and legal deci-sions after them which had brought the 43rd American president in the White House?
Whether George W. Bush, Jr is accepted by Americans as legitimate Presi-dent in spite of the fact that he had been elected by minority of the voters (49,790,000 votes for Bush against 50,148,000 votes for Gore)?
Whether it is possible to speak that the Senate, the Houser of Representa-tives and the White House have been henceforth under the Republicans' con-trol? What dictates the President a necessity to form the wide two-party coali-tion?
What "key" bills had the new president sent to the Congress immediately after his taking the office?
On what two groups of factors does the success or failure of new presidency depend?
Whether the economic recession threatens America or the budget proficit is guaranteed in the coming years?
Why was the new administration named as the "All stars" cabinet?
How successful is the new president in realizing the principle that "Ameri-can administration should look like America itself"?
What the most valuable quality so necessary for the national leader does George W. Bush, Jr possess when he must deal with the matters of state impor-tance?
Brief historical information on these and other questions is given by Doctor of History, Department Head, ISCRAN, GARBUZOV Valery N.
AMERICAN and RUSSIAN PENSION SYSTEMS:
Evolution and attempt of reforms
What are the real prospects of Russian pension system?
What ways of transition from a distributive pension system to a contributive one are possible?
What is necessary to realize the advantages of contributory pension system in comparison with a distributive one?
How many billions (?!) dollars had the United States planned to spend on pension system reform from their budget proficits up to 2012?
What is a share of pension contributions from the side of American employers in private sector of economy?
What, actually, will the new contributory system give to the Russian pen-sioners up to 2010 from the point of view of maintenance of their standard of living?
Where can Russian government find the means for payments in pension funds? How is the government going to invest pension accumulation so that they would bring a real and possibly high enough income?
Whether the issue of special, "especially protected", state pension bonds will guarantee a certain level of the investment income to the future pensioners, as in Singapore?
How is it possible to create in Russia a normal investment environment when the most profitable branches and enterprises had been privatized for a tri-fle, the basic financial flows go past Treasury, and the government had run into huge debts?
Whether it is possible to transfer the management by State Pension Funds in hands of private international (probably American?) managing companies or to place significant volumes of pension accumulations into American share market?
In this second and final part of his article a Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher of the ISCRAN, Alexey A. Popov, concludes his analysis of prospects of reorganization of social welfare in Russia.
"PUBLIC RELATIONS" as POLITICAL TOOL
What are "public relations" or PR?
Whether PR is a complex of measures to achieve mutual trust, understand-ing and cooperation between authorities and society, or it is a "sale" of a such public opinion, which is desirable for the authorities?
When was PR put on a service to Americam government?
Who is the father-founder of PR as an independent trade and a scientific discipline?
When and where was the very first course on PR practice and ethics read?
Who was the author of such concepts as "social purpose", "national will", "stereotype", and "public opinion is a street with bilateral movement"?
When did the PR-methods begin to be used in American foreign policy propaganda?
What dangers to a society are latent in application of PR-methods by execu-tive branch, and when did the Congress begin to struggle against them?
When did the press conferences of American president begin to be consid-ered rather as a way to appeal to a society, than a means of dialogue with the press?
What is hidden behind such concepts as "spin-management", "spin-doctor", "spin-effort", "spin-operation", "ideas of day" or "lines of day", and "sound-bytes"?
What American president entered in a history as the "Great Communica-tor"?
How do three basic ways of influence on society (namely compulsion, ma-nipulation, and cooperation) correspond in PR?
This ineresting theme is covered by a Post-graduate student of ISCRAN, Ms OVCHINNIKIVA Mariya A.