Perspective

Nuclear Revival Unlikely to 2030

CIGI has released a five-point Action Plan on global governance of nuclear energy to 2030, and an Overview that highlights key findings of a comprehensive three-year study on the global nuclear sector. The Action Plan recommends actions the international community should take during this window of opportunity to fix key governance issues related to safety, security and weapons proliferation.

Ottawa Book Launch Features Two CIGI Books

On February 9, 2010, CIGI Senior Fellow Debra Steger will launch her edited volume Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century, co-published by CIGI and IDRC. Professor Jeremy de Beer's book, Implementing the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Development Agenda, also a CIGI-IDRC publication, will be featured at the launch and roundtable discussion.

After the Crisis

The G20 emerged from the global economic crisis as the new global decision-making body on economic matters. And while G20 nations' collaborative stimulus efforts have shown some positive benefits, the world's economy is not yet running a smooth course. The G20 may play an even more important role after the crisis than it did during it. The G20 is a focal point of CIGI's research.

Papers in Series

January 29, 2010

Caribbean Regional Governance and the Sovereignty/Statehood Problem

The authors of a new paper on Caribbean regional governance cite the urgent need for a frank debate about sovereignty and statehood. They propose steps the region's leaders can take to design a new set of governance arrangements for CARICOM, and argue that it is only with an updated concept of sovereignty that effective institutions can be built to assist the region.Read More

Conference Papers & Reports

January 26, 2010

CIGI 09: Towards a Global New Deal

This report on CIGI'09: Towards a Global New Deal, CIGI's annual conference held on October 2-4, 2009, reviews the causes and consequences of the international financial crisis, and discusses measures needed to ensure a global economic recovery and to prevent another such crisis from occurring. Read More

Op-Eds

February 2, 2010

What's cooking in Canadian innovation?

As Canadian governments extricate themselves from gaping deficits, they will need again to make the kind of tough choices that put us on the general path to fiscal probity in the 1990s. While these choices imply some mixture of increased taxes or spending restraints, we know that periods of strong economic growth can also make the public debt burden more manageable relative to Canadians' capacity to shoulder it.Read More

Policy Briefs

January 21, 2010

Developing Countries – even China – Cannot Rescue the World Economy

Contrary to what many analysts believe, neither China alone nor developing countries as a group are economically powerful enough to pull the world economy out of recession, although their importance as an engine of global growth is rising. Global economic recovery will have to depend on growth in the US and Europe.Read More