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How the 2008 Financial Crisis Helped Fuel Today’s Right-Wing Populism
- Analysis
- October 10, 2018
Ten years ago, on 3 October 2008, President George W. Bush signed the “Troubled Assets Relief Program” (TARP), promising $700 billion to support banks and companies hit by the global financial crisis. As Congress passed this historic bill, it seemed like liberal democracy was rising to the challenge posed by the global financial crisis. Yes,
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Development Partnership Part 1: The Way of the Future
- Analysis
- October 10, 2018
A key goal for Canada is to be BACK as a credible development partner. A significant driver is the ambition of taking a UN Security Council (SC) seat in 2020. Recent signals, however, suggest some uncertainty about Canada winning this secret ballot. This goal was not helped when the recent OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
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Development Partnership Part 2: A Canadian Action Agenda
- Analysis
- October 10, 2018
This blog continues from Part 1, The Way of the Future. A solid agenda exists of desirable institutional changes in Global Affairs Canada (GAC, and other public entities) over the next few years. We need to start building new partnerships — some developmental, others political and commercial, some academic, and some even involving public institutions
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Beyond Aid Budgets: What Canada Can Do to Promote International Development
- Analysis
- October 10, 2018
Of late, many commentators, from humble bloggers to the more august Toronto Star and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), have lamented Canada’s relative lack of generosity in foreign aid and called on the Canadian government to increase the aid budget. Canada is indeed a laggard compared to its peers and the Trudeau government is less generous than
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