Ce rapport présente les résultats préliminaires d'une première version du Modèle de Micro-Simulation de l'Université Laval (SimUL), portant sur l'évolution de divers indicateurs sociaux et de mesures de niveaux de vie pour la période 2004-2030. Cette évolution est largement tributaire...

Legislation, regulation and security codes but also the activities of the fire department contribute to the reduction of the number of fires and the associated damage. But all these instruments are expensive. The CIRANO was contracted to perform an exploratory economic analysis of the activities...

This report, about the implementation of first responder service in Montreal, fits in the context of the new Quebec act on prehospital emergency care passed on December 2002 (Bill 96), and also in the context of the merger of fire services in Montreal. The CIRANO was contracted to perform an...

In this paper we argue for an enhanced market structure for PSE as an important means of adjustment of PSE to labour market changes. However, this market orientation, in our view (and other authors' opinion), can only be implemented after disentangling price mechanisms and income support in PSE...

The positive social return on most health expenditure leads us to suggest a shift in Quebec to move away from attempts at restricting these outlays and towards a "growth management"" attitude. Such an attitude also proves compatible with the conclusions of the numerous public reports recently...

Ce texte décrit le Serveur de Négociation Électronique GAMME, un mécanisme générique de négociation de contrats appliquant les technologies de l'Internet et des enchères électroniques. Il comprend également une présentation de la conception du commerce électronique développée dans...

Conducted for the Treasury Board of Québec, this study seeks to present recent contributions to the evolution, within an enterprise architecture context, of de jure and de facto standards by various actors in the milieu, industrial consortia, and international standardization committees active...

The Government of Québec is slowly but surely turning its attention to the issue of free and open source software in response to the interest shown by Québec's software industry and the attention paid to the phenomenon by governments around the world. This openness is easy to understand given...

Cette étude, réalisée pour le Conseil du trésor du Québec, a pour objectifs de présenter, dans un contexte d'architecture d'entreprise, les récents développements dans l'évolution des normes et standards par les différents acteurs du milieu, les consortiums industriels et les comités...

This document sums up the technological, economical, biological and statutory aspects of products issued from Canadian biotechnology, used in the fields of agribusiness, and commonly called GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms). A first section analyses the different terms (and their nuances)...