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. [...]
How have Canadian exports performed during COVID19 and what is needed to ‘build back better’? We discuss recommendations to address two structural vulnerabilities apparent in Canada’s export performance during COVID: poor diversification and risks from [...]
This analysis is the third in a series on risks to development outcomes stemming from donor response to the COVID-19 crisis. We argue that there is a high probability that the crisis will cause a fragmentation of donor programming portfolios and that this fragmentation typically favors multilateral [...]
In this analysis we outline second and third-order risks to development stemming from donor's response to the crisis. We hypothesize that the risks to development spending are longer term and independent of the significant temporal uncertainty, because the crisis is already long and deep enough to [...]
This analysis, the first in a series, outlines projected effects of COVID-19 on global economic growth, trade, investment, and remittances, and global poverty reduction, before providing a specific outlook on Canadian economic [...]
In this report we analyze recently released monthly Canadian International Merchandise Trade data to identify the impact of President Trump's tariffs on the month-on-month change of Canadian iron and steel, and aluminum exports to the United [...]
Violence against women and girls is a “global pandemic and a serious obstacle to sustainable development and economic prosperity for families, communities and states.” CIDP is proposing a data project to explore the economic nuances of these [...]
It could be worse. From the Arms Trade Treaty to commitments to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights programs, Aniket Bhushan assesses the budget’s international [...]
Canada's bilateral trade foortprint: a primer on the heels of the first Trudeau Trump visit. [...]
Key trends and patterns in Canadian international assistance, trade, migration, remittances, and [...]
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