Administrative responsibilities may be transferred to local levels without adequate financial resources and make equitable distribution or provision of services more difficult. Decentralization can sometimes make coordination of national policies more complex and may allow functions to be captured by local elites. Also, distrust between public and private sectors may undermine cooperation at the local […]

Ultimately, every aggregate index is a weighted arithmetic average of the corresponding price indexes for all the elementary aggregates contained in the given aggregate. Since the CPI weighting structure is based on a rectangular grid with goods and services as rows and regions as columns, the same All-items CPI at the Canada level is derived […]

For Laura A. Baluch, the death of her father eight years ago offered perspective for her family law practice at Rockford’s Barrick, Switzer, Long, Balsley & Van Evera. “That, for me, was this awakening moment,” she says. “We have one life, and that’s it. Why would you spend one minute not being happy? That’s one reason […]