by adminrise | Dec 19, 2020 | Development actors
In a national poll commissioned by Cooperation Canada and completed on December 2, Abacus Data found that, by a 2-to-1 margin, Canadians agree that Canada needs to help poorer countries in their recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Canadians are split on...
by adminrise | Dec 10, 2020 | Development actors
As Canada’s relations with China have sunk to a low point, some Canadian politicians are calling on Ottawa to “stand up” to China by pulling our $256 million (US$189 million) investment from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). They charge that AIIB is an...
by adminrise | Nov 10, 2020 | Development actors
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated developing geopolitical shifts that are unlikely to dissipate even after the pandemic’s economic shock wanes. As a country long used to a more benign international environment, the future prosperity, security and well-being...
by adminrise | Oct 20, 2020 | Development actors
As they mark their 76th year, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been presented with a grand opportunity, not to save the world, but to salvage their tattered reputation. The Fund enters the annual IMF-World Bank meetings with a big image problem....
by adminrise | Oct 20, 2020 | Development actors
Polluters profiting from pandemic bailouts Under the guise of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has seen fossil fuel interests capture tens of billions of public recovery money, new research by the Fossil Free Politics campaign reveals a massive lobbying effort by the...
by adminrise | Oct 14, 2020 | Development actors
Nearly three years after announcing $1.5-billion in new financing programs for foreign aid, Ottawa has disbursed only a tiny fraction of the promised money: just $120,000 so far. The Trudeau government won praise from aid agencies in February, 2018, when it announced...
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