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).

• Canada and the Carribean Community: Prospects for an Enhanced Trade Arrangement
  - by Ramesh Chaitoo and Ann Weston. As published in the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal (Vol. 14, No. 3).

  • Consult the corresponding PowerPoint presentation

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".

• The Implications of the Global Economic Crisis for Developing Country Trade and Trade Programming
   

• La crise, le commerce et la pauvreté dans les pays du Sud - et comment y répondre (available in French only)