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Former C.D. Howe Institute Leader Wendy Dobson Named Fellow Emerita
Citation Wendy Dobson. 2026. Former C.D. Howe Institute Leader Wendy Dobson Named Fellow Emerita. Media Releases. Toronto: C.D. Howe Institute.
Financing the Just Energy Transition for Africa’s Emerging Markets
JOHANNESBURG, 7 December 2022: Energy is a key enabler of sustainable and inclusive growth. However, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, 600 million people on our continent do not have access to electricity, which corresponds to an electricity access rate for African countries of just over 40% – the lowest in the world.
Understanding China's Innovation Agenda
Image: Thomas Peter/ Reuters In late 2017, a headline in the South China Morning Post declared that “China’s chance to lead global innovation may lie with 5G mobile technology development.” The accompanying story began as follows: “China is on the cusp of recasting itself as a leading technology innovator from a mere follower in the telecommunications industry”—a statement that conveys its growing ambitions to create new technologies rather than adopt existing ones.
Standard Bank is helping Africa chart a green energy path
The Covid-19 crisis is presenting governments and businesses with an opportunity to accelerate the shift to a low-carbon economy that allows current and future generations to prosper. As Africa’s largest bank by assets, Standard Bank Group fully recognises the role it has to play in enabling this transition, and we have been preparing ourselves accordingly.
Standard Bank is committed to enabling a just energy transition
Sustainability 23 June 2020 The Covid-19 crisis is presenting governments and businesses with an opportunity to accelerate the shift to a low-carbon economy that allows current and future generations to prosper. As Africa’s largest bank by assets, Standard Bank Group fully recognises the role it has to play in enabling this transition, and we have been preparing ourselves accordingly.
Where Will India's Young People Find Work? - The Globalist
Between 2010 and 2020, the number of 15-to-24-year-olds in China who are looking for jobs and education each year will shrink, while the number in India will grow by some 11 million. Where will they all find work? For many, the challenge is complicated by their lack of employability. Nearly 40% of those over age 15 are illiterate.
How Canada can get freer trade with China now, without waiting years for a free-trade deal
The untapped potential of Chinese markets and their burgeoning middle class offer tremendous scope and scale for export sales of both goods and services, creating new Canadian jobs and attracting additional investment. While China is Canada’s second-largest national trading partner today, it accounts for only four per cent of Canadian exports.
Living with a rising China - Policy Options
Canadians feel ambivalent or even wary about China. It’s time to build a new narrative about our second-largest trading partner. After a decade of intermittent and ambivalent engagement with our second-largest trading partner, it’s time for Canada to plan concretely for the future of its relationship with China.
Canada-China Relations: A Policy Options Special Feature
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading to China for an official visit and to attend the G20 leaders’ summit, in a trip that will be closely scrutinized for its impact on tepid relations with Beijing. Trudeau will find himself in the same position as his predecessors: torn between the pursuit of the tremendous economic opportunities China represents (it is already our second-largest trading partner) and the conviction that Canadian values must be promoted and upheld.
The Future of Canada’s Relationship with China - IRPP
The aim in this essay is to stimulate constructive public discussion of a forward-looking framework for consideration by the new government in Ottawa. This framework should be consistently employed by successive governments. It should be nonpartisan, follow the whole-of-country approach, and be based on informed public assent.
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