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15 Facts About China That Will Blow Your Mind
(Business Insider) Despite all the wild stories you have already heard about China, expect the nation to keep blowing your mind. That’s because not only is China enormous and highly diverse, but most importantly, […]

G8 Summit July 8-10 2009 ; Canada & the Arctic

For foreign policy-making, don’t look to Foreign Affairs
(Ottawa Citizen) … So what then is the policy role of Foreign Affairs — in Afghanistan or, potentially, anywhere else? What becomes of the Afghan Task Force when the Afghan war ends? Will it wither away — a highly […]

(The Economist) Data compiled by Angus Maddison, an economist who died earlier this year, suggest that China and India were the biggest economies in the world for almost all of the past 2000 years. Why they fell so far behind may be more of a mystery than why they are currently flourishing. More
Contest of the […]

Japan as number three: Watching China whizz by
Japan is now the world’s third-largest economy. Can its firms cope?
(The Economist) FIVE years ago China’s economy was half as big as Japan’s. This year it will probably be bigger (see chart 1). Quarterly figures announced this week showed that China had overtaken its ancient rival. It had […]

Africa development indicators 2008-2009 ; Kenya ; SciDevNet Sub-Saharan Africa
23 August 2007
Is Western aid making a difference in Africa?
(CSM) Two US economists [Ayub Rioba and Jeffrey Sachs] debate the value of antipoverty efforts.
“Is this really how to save Africa?” asks Tanzanian columnist Ayub Rioba, a day after Bill Clinton has left Africa. “We appreciate […]

Innovation in emerging markets
Wednesday-Night.com Emerging markets

Meet the world’s next growth engine
(Financial Post) While the developed world grapples with the mass retirement of its baby boom generation, India is just welcoming its boomers into the workforce.
There, a demographic bulge will lead to an enormous labour force spike in the coming years, presenting India with a profound […]

With thanks to David Kilgour for bringing this to our attention.
This is the first time that we have seen the topic raised in such a complete fashion. Therefore, we are posting an only slightly abridged version, at least for the present. As the world becomes more aware and the media pays more attention, we will add […]

NAFTA
Background: Mapping the New North American Reality
Stephen Blank, Stephanie R. Golob, Guy Stanley - Co-Chairs, Study Group
The papers in this series were written by participants in a project sponsored by the PanAmerican Partnership for Business Education, an alliance of four North American business schools. In cooperation with HEC-Montreal and the IRPP, the Partnership hosted […]

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CBC News - Indepth: Canada-U.S. Relations
5 May 2003 … Relations between Canada and the U.S. are decidedly chilly these days. The Iraq war, trade disputes, name-calling, bickering at the border: …

Kandahar is What the Canada-U.S. Alliance is All About
(Brookings Institute) Relatively minor disagreements over matters such as who should attend a summit on the Arctic […]