Economy

What Challenges Face a New World Bank President?
- January 23, 2019
The World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were created in 1944, in the closing months of WWII. The Bretton Woods conference was the Allies’ vehicle for rebuilding a shattered Europe, relying on European and American leadership. This …
By John Sinclair
Economy, International Development, USA
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The Future of Sustainable Protein is… Complicated
- October 28, 2018
“The Paleoketoveganmacrofasting Diet: Stop the Madness!!!” This was the amusing title of a recent presentation by Dr. Shawn Arent, a kinesiology professor at Rutgers University. The talk was aimed at personal trainers. But for the rest of us, the title …
By Ryan Katz-Rosene
Economy, Environment, Health
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How the 2008 Financial Crisis Helped Fuel Today’s Right-Wing Populism
- 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 …
By Jacqueline Best
Democracy, Economy, USA
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Trans Mountain Clarifies Canada’s Climate–Energy Choices
- October 3, 2018
Since the court decision of August 30^th that put the Trans Mountain pipeline on hold —and the cat decidedly among the pigeons — Canada’s energy/climate politics has been strangely quiet. Trans Mountain was the last of a batch of …
By Matthew Paterson
Economy, Environment, Indigenous Peoples
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Why We Aren’t Ready for the Next Financial Crisis
- September 27, 2018
Ten years ago, as the global economy slipped ever closer to a total meltdown, regulators were slow to recognize the severity of the problem because they were looking in the wrong direction.

Transcripts from the US Federal Reserve’s policymaking committee …
By Jacqueline Best
Economy
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Ford and the Future of Canadian Climate Policy
- September 6, 2018
In the fallout from Doug Ford’s election as Premier of Ontario, two things have dominated public debate regarding climate policy. One, the provincial cap and trade plan along with the court case to stop the federal government from imposing a …
By Matthew Paterson
Economy, Environment, Science
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Opioids and Capitalism
- July 10, 2018
by Paulo Pereira

In recent years, tens of thousands of Americans have died of opioid related overdoses, and millions of Americans are classified by the country’s health agency standards as having some sort of problematic opioid use. Canada is facing …
By CIPS
Economy, Health, USA
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Has the G7 Lost its Mojo?
- June 17, 2018
After a series of sessions on global trade and the key Canadian priorities of gender equality and climate change, the highly anticipated two-day Group of Seven (G7) summit ended Saturday afternoon in Charlevoix, Quebec.

There had been hopes for a …
By John Sinclair
Canadian Foreign Policy, Economy, Environment, Europe, International Relations, USA
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Why Nationalizing the Trans Mountain Pipeline is Undemocratic
- June 8, 2018
When Canadians woke up to learn that they were the proud owners of a run-down pipeline, many of them no doubt asked themselves, “Can the government just do that?” After all, nationalization hasn’t been a popular government pastime in Canada …
By Jacqueline Best
Democracy, Economy, Environment, Indigenous Peoples, International Trade
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Bangladesh on the Move, Part 1: A Development Breakthrough
- June 5, 2018
Bangladesh, a country branded at its birth, in 1971, as a bottomless development basket by Henry Kissinger, marches forward. Proving Kissinger’s words wrong, this development success story unfolds in one of the poorest countries of the world.

The country moves …
By Nipa Banerjee
Asia, Economy, Éducation, Environment, Health, International Development, Women
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Bangladesh on the Move, Part 2: Future Prospects
- June 5, 2018
Read Part 1 of this article here.

London-based research organization BMI has listed Bangladesh as one of six countries that will be growth performers in the period 2016–2025. Three major factors are identified as boosters of this growth. An …
By Nipa Banerjee
Asia, Economy, Éducation, Environment, Health, International Development, Women
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Why We Need to Stop Letting Economic Crises go to Waste
- April 30, 2018
There’s a popular adage that we should never let a good crisis go to waste. Yet, arguably, that’s what we’ve been doing for decades now. We’ve avoided facing the genuine political challenges that economic crises present us and lost these …
By Jacqueline Best
Economy
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