Tag: world economics
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How Canada Can Help Repair Today’s Global Trading System
The article below (Furthering the Benefits of Global Economic Integration throughInstitution Building: Canada as 2024 Chair of CPTPP) was first published by the C.D. Howe Institute by Paul Jenkins and Mark Kruger. Introduction Over the last 10 to 15 years, the global economy has become fragmented. There are many reasons for this fragmentation – both…
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Former Canada Finance Minister’s Thank-You Letter to WEF Suggests More Collaboration Than Disclosed
By our friends at Epoch Times/ Noé Chartier Close interactions between Canadian cabinet ministers and the World Economic Forum are well-documented, but a newly revealed letter suggests forum staff may have been doing more work with the federal government than previously disclosed. In an undated letter to a WEF official, former Finance Minister Bill Morneau praised…
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International Monetary Fund- World Economy Still Recovering
The IMF announced today (Tuesday, April 11, 2023) in the World Economic Outlook’s press briefing that the baseline forecast for global output growth is 0.1 percentage point lower than predicted in the January 2023 WEO Update, before rising to 3.0 percent in 2024. “The world economy is still recovering from the unprecedented upheavals of the last…
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US Climate Scientist Pushes For Canadian Carbon Tax Serfdom?
(Calgary, Alberta) The Canadian Federation of Taxpayers (CTF) has issued a new report on global carbon taxes, showing most countries have frozen or rolled back carbon taxes, but US climate scientist James Hansen is pushing for a $210/t carbon tax in Canada by 2030. Hansen’s argument is that the tax has to be high enough that people will buy into…
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Invest In eSports- Ministers Welcome Commonwealth Interventions To Rebuild Hard Hit Sport Sector
Commonwealth collaboration is vital to the recovery of the sport sector which has suffered a crushing blow from essential measures to stem the spread of COVID-19. This was the recurring theme as sports ministers from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and the Pacific met at a landmark forum on the impact of the pandemic on…
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VisaNet Connects Two And A Half Billion Credit Cards
One of the many ways the Internet is driving the global economy is through digital payments, making it easy for consumers to buy just about anything from anywhere. VisaNet is the largest payment processing network in the world, connecting 2.4 billion credit cards at 36 million locations across 200 countries. Those are just a few…