Portrait of the supply and demand for private health care services in Quebec.

Quebec is one of the provinces in which private medicine has developed rapidly in recent years. This trend coincides with a large number of Quebecers being unable to find a family doctor and with lengthening wait times both for undergoing treatment after a diagnosis and for being seen by a doctor in a hospital emergency room. How many private clinics are there, and how many doctors have left the public system in Quebec? Why do patients resort to private medicine?

Portrait of the supply and demand for private health care services in Quebec.

The impact of competition.

The best way to fight corruption.

Hong Kong's meteoric economic development.

Hong Kong today is a doorway to China and the rest of Asia for foreign investors, and one of the wealthiest societies in the world. Its gross domestic product per capita is even higher than Britain's. And yet, after the Second World War, this minuscule territory of the British Empire, devoid of natural resources, was faced with the problems of a developing country, with a rapidly expanding poor population. In 1960, the average income per capita was still just 28% of what residents of the far-off mother country earned at the time.

The impact of staffing services on the flexibility of the labour market.

The impact of staffing services on the flexibility of the labour market.

The free-market policies that explain Hong Kong's meteoric economic development.