Canada and
CARICOM – Enhancing
trade relationships
In 2008 Ann Weston
collaborated with
Ramesh Chaitoo, from
the Caribbean
Regional Negotiating
Machinery, to
undertake research
and write a paper on
“Canada and the
Caribbean Community:
Prospects for an
Enhanced Trade
Arrangement”. The
paper was presented
at a conference on
Canada and the
Americas organized
by Canada’s
Department for
Foreign Affairs and
International Trade,
the Centre for Trade
Policy and law, the
Canadian Foundation
for the Americas,
and the Canadian
Foreign Policy
Journal in Ottawa,
March 2008. It was
then revised and
published in the
Canadian Foreign
Policy Journal
(Vol.14, No. 3).
Mainstreaming
Gender Equality in
Trade
In March 2009 NSI
was awarded a
contract by the UK's
Department for
International
Development to
provide advice on
how to deepen the
linkages between its
work on trade and
gender equality. The
work is being
undertaken by Ann
Weston, NSI's
Vice-President and
Research
Coordinator, and
Julie Delahanty,
who worked as a
researcher at NSI in
the late 1990s and
later in the
government of Canada
on issues of gender
equality and women's
rights, and is now
an independent
consultant. Ann and
Julie will be
working with members
of the joint Trade
Policy Unit
established by DFID
and the UK's
Department for
Business Enterprise
and Regulatory
Reform (BERR) to
identify
opportunities to
mainstream and scale
up a trade and
gender agenda across
all areas of TPU's
work.
Trade and the
implications of the
global economic
crisis
In recent months NSI
staff have been
tracking the
implications of the
global economic
crisis for
developing
countries. Attached
are two
presentations made
by Ann Weston. The
first was at a CIDA
seminar on Trade
Issues and
Developing
Countries, and is
titled "The
Implications of the
Global Economic
Crisis for
Developing Country
Trade and Trade
Programming." The
second was at a
conference in
Brussels on "Les
Impacts de la crise
financière et
économique sur les
pays en voie de
développement" and
was titled "La crise,
le commerce et la
pauvreté dans les
pays du Sud - et
comment y répondre".
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