Budget 2021: Implications for Canada’s Support for Global Development
-21 was a significant outlier in terms of Canada’s development spending and is not an indication of trend change.
At the G7 Leaders Summit (June 2021) Canada announced “a doubling of its international climate finance (ICF) commitment to $5.3billion over the next five years”. We argue how Canada doubles ICF matters more than the fact that it is doubling.
Read More-21 was a significant outlier in terms of Canada’s development spending and is not an indication of trend change.
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Canada’s aid spending was near its lowest level as a proportion of national income and in the bottom half of all OECD-DAC donors. And yet, Canada’s global response to COVID-19 (as our data annex illustrates) has been among the fastest and strongest. Even so, at present, Canada is an outlier in many respects and its experience is a lesson to [...]
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