A fundamental change is taking place in the global economy, and the standoff in the Doha Round has raised many questions about the World Trade Organization's troubled architecture (Khor, 2009). So far, the quest for renewed policy coherence in the rules-based multilateral system has produced...

This paper focuses on the way a crisis needs an institutional actor and champion. Through painfully slow intervention and muddling through, the ECB created new policy space for a European financial and banking system that was on the point of collapse. However the institutional commitment to...

This prospective paper is about ‘after the triumph’, a short-hand for a much larger and more powerful idea, namely, the return, reconstitution and redeployment of the public domain in a post-Seattle and post-Washington consensus world order (Williamson 1990, 1999). The emergence of the...

To explore how much coverage is given by Leading Indian newspaper to 2G Scam and Common Wealth Games during the period of study. To explore what kind of image of India is famed by all four newspapers. To explore what effects it casts on Indian society. To find the image of India government is...

In the worst economic crisis in five decades, the massive growth of jobless people raises basic questions about the future of the global economy and what we can do about it. The recovery is going to be very slow and the danger of a relapse is all too real. Global governance needs better...

This paper examines the new state practices of demand management and rescue policies. States have become innovative in the current crisis developing highly divergent responses to re-insert government in the management of the economy. The paper will argue that protectionism of the classical...

This paper analyses the text (CETA, 2010) in the areas of agriculture, services and investment, procurement, regulations, and manufacturing competitiveness. We find that market access would be marginal and adjustment costs high in all of these areas. Canada’s trade with the EU is already...

Canada has been both blessed and cursed by its vast resource wealth. Immense resource riches sends the wrong message to the political class that thinking and planning for tomorrow is unnecessary when record high global prices drive economic development at a frenetic pace. Short-termism, the loss...