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CIGI’s Global Economy team, led by Director Domenico Lombardi, were participating in events and reporting on the ground from the annual Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group. While in DC, experts honed in on G20 agenda-setting and sovereign debt restructuring, with a focus on Ukraine, as well as Greece and the Eurocrisis. Find blogs, video and commentaries from CIGI experts in Washington on CIGI’s IMF and World Bank Group Meetings webpage.
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Oonagh Fitzgerald, director of CIGI’s International Law Research Program, discusses the importance of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s announcement of joining the Western Climate Initiative greenhouse gas cap and trade system — the perspective CIGI submitted, what this means for Canadian provinces, and what comes next for the federal government.
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The years prior to the 2008 global financial crisis were a peculiar period for the IMF as it struggled to define its role and justify its existence. Award-winning journalist and CIGI Senior Fellow Paul Blustein chronicles the IMF’s history between 2005 and 2009 in a new CIGI Paper provoking controversy among financial commentators.
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On the event of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tour of Canada last week, Kevin Carmichael considers how Ottawa and New Delhi “talk a good game, but have achieved very little at the end of the day” and notes that “Canada essentially is starting from scratch with India” in his latest blog.
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Direct from Washington, DC, Distinguished Fellow Malcolm D. Knight discusses lessons learned from the euro crisis. He notes that if countries can withstand a major period of financial restructuring, productivity and competitiveness can be strengthened for the long term.
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Taylor Owen, author and assistant professor of digital media at the University of British Columbia, has been appointed to the CIGI Board of Directors. Owen’s expertise in digital media, information technology and international affairs will complement CIGI’s focus on online communications as it forms networks with policy, business and academic communities around the world.
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Best-selling author of Capital in the Twenty First-Century, Thomas Piketty helped open the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) annual conference "Liberté, égalité, et fragilité," in Paris, in partnership with
CIGI. Piketty’s remarks helped set the stage for the conference theme of the cost of economic inequality.
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