Research for a fairer world

The North-South Institute’s research examines the role of the public and private sectors, and of the voluntary sector or “civil society,” in Canada’s various relationships with developing countries. The NSI’s research program concentrates on five key areas: Finance for equitable growth; Peacebuilding and conflict prevention; Trade and natural resources; Employment and migration; and, Governance, reform and effective development.

In Progress

Finance for equitable growth

• Policy Responses to Unfettered Finance
• The Canadian Development Report 2009
• Domestic Resources Mobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Foreign Direct Investment in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: Towards Convergence

Peacebuilding and conflict prevention

• Security Sector Reform and the Responsibility to Protect in Burundi, Haiti and Sudan: A Research, Policy Dialogue and Capacity-Building Project
• Access and Action: Monitoring Gender (Un)Equal Access to Justice and Public Security in Fragile States
• Privileging Southern Voices on Gender and Police Reform
• From War Termination to Sustainable Peace: What Kind of Peace is Possible? (WKOP)

Trade and natural resources

• Energy policies and development
• Dialogue on Canadian - Latin American Economic Relations
• Latin America and the WTO: Current and future scenarios
• The BRICS at the WTO Doha Development Round: Comparing crisis-born agendas and strategies
• Indigenous Perspectives on Consultation and Decision-Making about Mining and Other Natural Resources in Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada (Phase II)
• Indigenous Peoples and Mining in Suriname - Building Community Capacity and Encouraging Dialogue
• Gender and Regional Trade Agreements
• Intellectual Property, Traditional Medicinal Knowledge, Gender and Sustainable Development
• Policy Coherence in Trade and Health
• Other Trade and Development Work

Employment and migration

• Migrant Workers: An Outreach Program for the Caribbean
• A Women's Empowerment Approach to Temporary Labour Migration
• Global Health Policy: Migration, Health and Development

Governance, reform and effective development

• Integrating Human Rights in Donor Agencies' Private Sector Development Initiatives  
• We the Peoples 2006-2008
• Southern Perspectives on Reforming the Development Architecture (Phase II)
• Development Cooperation and Aid Effectiveness Research Program