February, 10, 2012
| January 18, 2012 The most important thing in Taiwanese politics is always left unsaid. When I interviewed Ma Ying-jeou in 2008, just before he won the presidency for the first time, he was happy to talk about the details of his plans for better relations with the People's Republic of China: direct flights, more trade, and the like. But ask him about the long-term future, and all you got was platitudes. | |
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| January 18, 2012 According to Natural Resources Canada, Canadian mining investment overseas has surged in the past decade: from about $30 billion to over $130 billion in 2010. Virtually all of that growth has come in Africa and Latin America, and much of it in countries that the global risk assessment firm Maplecroft labels "high or extreme risk," particularly on social or political metrics. Yet, these are also the countries actively courting resource investment as critical to poverty reduction, employment growth, and tax revenue. | |
| January 18, 2012 The Busan forum ended with the burial of the Paris and Accra aid effectiveness principles and the introduction of dialogue on a New Deal. But is it already going down the wrong road?
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| January 18, 2012 Canada's impact is blunted by regime support from Russia, Iran.
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| January 18, 2012 Implying that aboriginal opposition to Northern Gateway is a product of American money and influence is a new low.
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| January 11, 2012 More than 4,300 groups have registered to speak at hearings that began on Jan. 10 over a proposed pipeline that would pump half a million barrels of petroleum a day from the oil sands to the west coast. | |
| January 11, 2012 As Afghanistan continues to teach Canadians, development is different in fragile states. | |
| January 11, 2012 In December in Geneva, Russia cleared the last official hurdle to becoming the 154th member of the World Trade Organization. With the stroke of a pen, the global economy became more integrated and the WTO truly "world" in scope. | |
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