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Robin William Boadway, OC, FRSC (born 1943) is a Canadian economist. He holds the David Smith Chair at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He has taught at Queen's University since 1973. He was Head of the Department of Economics at Queen's from 1981-86, and is currently Associate Director of the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, he earned a degree in engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario in 1964, student # 6219, and studied economics at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. At Queen's he completed his doctorate in economics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1986[1]. He is currently Editor of the Journal of Public Economics. His research interests are public sector economics and welfare economics, with special emphasis on tax theory and policy, redistribution, fiscal federalism and cost-benefit analysis. His work includes books entitled Public Sector Economics, Welfare Economics, Canadian Tax Policy, Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Canada and Economics and the Canadian Economy as well as articles in academic journals. He has been involved in research studies for the John Deutsch Institute, the Economic Council of Canada, the World Bank, the OECD, the Financial and Fiscal Commission in South Africa, the Canadian Tax Foundation and for Royal Commissions on the Economic Union, on Passenger Transportation and on Aboriginal Peoples, and various Canadian government departments[1]. In 2008, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.[2] [edit] References
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