Financial CrisisPublication - Tuesday, June 22, 2010
The G20 Framework for Strong, Sustainable And Balanced Growth: A Study in Credible Cooperation
At the Pittsburgh summit last September, the G20 adopted a “Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth." Daniel Schwanen, Special Advisor, Programs, to CIGI’s Acting Executive Director, recommends ways to strengthen the assessment process envisioned in the Framework.
Publication - Thursday, June 10, 2010
The G20 and the Post-Crisis Economic Order
The G20 has shown itself capable of robust action in the wake of the international financial crisis. Now it needs to advance its role beyond the immediacy of crisis response. In the third instalment of CIGI’s G20 papers series, Distinguished Fellow Andrew F. Cooper and Senior Fellow Colin Bradford Jr. examine the G20 process as it moves from crisis response to economic management.
Publication - Wednesday, June 2, 2010
The Financial Stability Board: An Effective Fourth Pillar of Global Economic Governance?
One of the G20’s most significant institutional innovations has been the creation of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a new institution that some see as a potential fourth pillar of global economic governance alongside the IMF, World Bank and WTO. In a special report written with international partners, leading experts examine the challenges facing the FSB if it is to live up to expectations and help avert future global financial crises like the one in 2008-2009.
Publication - Thursday, 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.
Article - Monday, October 5, 2009
The Global Financial and Environmental Crises: Connections and Parallels?
Experts often overlook the links between the environment and the economy. CIGI held a public panel and workshop at the end of September to analyze how the environment and the economy are intertwined and what that means for global economic governance.
Article - Wednesday, September 30, 2009
CIGI'09 Conference Blog
For CIGI's annual conference, Senior Fellow Alan Alexandroff and Research Fellow Annette Hester weigh in on topics of importance to the conference theme: Towards a Global New Deal. The blog has guest contributors and videos about issues that may shape or be shaped by a new system of global governance.
Event - Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 7:30 pm - Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 9:00 pm
WLU Economic Outlook 2010: What Comes After the Great Recession?
How fast will the US and other developed countries recover?
How will Ontario's economy cope?
What is in store for the Waterloo Region?
ARE WE REALLY ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY?
Cost: $20 per ticket