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Northern Juggernaut? A Look Inside the Canadian Economy with Don Drummond

Don Drummond is the Matthews Fellow on Global Public Policy at Queen’s University at Kingston. From 2000 to 2010, he was the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist for TD Bank Financial Group. In March 2011, he was appointed Chair of the Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services. 

When Canada is mentioned in the international business press, it is often mentioned in a positive light. We read about Canada’s sound banking system and relatively low public debt or we hear about its GDP and employment growth that has outstripped other G7 countries. But could you give us a more complete picture? What is going well in Canada’s economy and what is going not-so-well?

By Winston Gee  |  February 17, 2012  |  1
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Development in Pakistan

What are the key developmental challenges Pakistan faces today, and what solutions has the Finance Ministry posed to address these challenges?

By Abdul Hafeez Shaikh  |  December 24, 2011
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Flexible Capitalism in Crisis

Richard Sennett founded the New York Institute of the Humanities and is currently a professor of sociology at New York University and the London School of Economics. His latest book, a study of the evolution of human cooperation, is titled Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation. The following is an edited transcript of our conversation. 

 

By Winston Gee  |  September 29, 2011  |  1
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Interviews, Middle East
The Failure of the United States in Afghanistan

Malalai Joya is an Afghan human rights activist, writer, and former member of the Afghan National Assembly. In 2010, she was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world. The following is an edited transcript of our conversation.


How has Afghanistan changed since the fall of the Taliban? In particular, how have women’s lives changed?

By Winston Gee  |  April 10, 2011
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Rethinking Aid Policy

ERIC GREITENS is the CEO of The Mission Continues, which sponsors veterans’ participation in public service. He was formerly a US Navy SEAL officer and Commander of several Special Operations Units, and has worked as a humanitarian volunteer and researcher in many countries, including Rwanda, Cambodia, Albania, and the Gaza Strip.

We are interested in talking about international aid and what you think the state of that is. Harvard-trained economist Dambisa Moyo put forth a theory that aid keeps Africa poor and that we should curtail—if not change—the way we aid Africa. What do you think is the best way to resolve the tension between stopping aid and encouraging long-term growth in Africa and responding to the immediate need of the people there?

By Eric Greitens  |  March 6, 2011
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Interviews, Americas
Interview with Margaret Spellings

Margaret Spellings served as the Secretary of Education in the second Bush Administration and is currently a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.

Q: Until not too long ago, French and Spanish were the only two foreign languages available in US public schools. How important is it to expand the selection in the globalizing world?

A: Very, very important. I have visited a high school Mandarin Chinese class; we are starting to see more and more of those and Arabic classes, too. You bet we need more of that.

By Margaret Spellings  |  December 23, 2010
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On Three Years in Jerusalem

Emma Williams is a British physician and journalist WHO has written extensively about the second intifada in the early 2000s. She has recently published a memoir on the subject, It's Easier to Reach Heaven than the End of the Street (Olive Branch Press, 2010).

By Emma Williams  |  September 28, 2010
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Complex Adaptive Systems

Ferguson’s essay “Complexity and Collapse: Empires on the Edge of Chaos” in Foreign Affairs (March/April 2010) asserts that empires can suddenly and unexpectedly collapse if a small trigger throws off the balance of the system; imperial collapse does not necessarily require a long period of decline. Considering that fiscal failures often cause such collapses, the growing public debt of the United States may be a signal that the US empire is in danger.

By Niall Ferguson  |  August 1, 2010
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A President’s Report Card

You have remarked that you see little substantive difference between the Bush administration’s and the Obama administration’s foreign policies. How are Obama’s policies similar to, or different from, the Bush administration policies?

Well, to be precise, I think there are significant differences between the first and the second Bush terms. And I think Obama’s policies are fairly continuous with Bush’s second term. In the first Bush term, the administration simply went off the spectrum.

By Noam Chomsky  |  May 1, 2010
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A Long Road Ahead

What progress has been made since January, and where is Haiti now?

Haiti is still in an extremly difficult situation because all the millions of people who lost their housing, belongings, and loved ones are still in the street. I’m not sure that we have even counted the dead properly because there are lots of neighborhoods where the dead are still under the ruble. Usually after two months, a country that has been hit by an earthquake is already in the phase of recovery.

By Michèle Pierre-Louis  |  May 1, 2010
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