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bout de papier, Volume 9, Issue No. 2, 1992
Randolph Gherson
Randolph Gherson was born in Cairo and educated at the London School of Economics. In 1958 he came to Ottawa with Joan, his Winnipeg born wife, following his work as an economist at the International Wheat Council. A spell with the IWC…
Canada: A Nation of Shopkeepers?
Note de la rédaction : bout de papier se penche sur la diplomatie d’entreprise, sa base comme son tableau d’ensemble. À l’échelle micro, dans le prochain numéro, Joya Donnelly profile trois entrepreneurs membres de la collectivité du service extérieur qui sont passionnés…
William Arthur Dymond
Bill Dymond, a veteran of Canadian trade and other negotiations, and a mainstay of Carleton’s Centre for Trade Policy and Law over the past 10 years, passed away November 24, after a brief but brave struggle with cancer.
Good Bye to All of That
by Bill Dymond
Retooling the Political Officer
For over a decade, officers in the political-economic stream of the department have been under silent pressure to change. This is because successive governments have been placing greater and greater emphasis on trade promotion in foreign policy. Last year’s foreign policy review…
Editor’s Notebook // Carnet du rédacteur
Some weeks ago I attended (purely in a stand-in capacity, you understand…) a meeting at which a large number of directors of divisions that deal predominantly with trade relations were present. At one point in the discussions, someone said, as an aside,…
Faith and Fear: The Free Trade Story
In the Spring 1992 issue of bout de papier, Michael Hart concentrated his considerable firepower on two books by Linda McQuaig and Mel Hurtig claiming that the 1988 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement represented the abdication of Canadian independence, the seduction of Ottawa…
World Bank World Development Report 1991
In his Foreword to the 14th World Development Report (WDR), the outgoing World Bank President, Barber Conable, articulates the major themes of the latest version, on “The Challenge of Development” which emphasizes both history and the future:
