This paper focuses on the two-way relationship between China and the international economic system. China’s embrace of the global institutions and their rules and norms helped guide its spectacular economic growth and integration into the world economy. China’s impact on the global economic...

After years of an economic relationship that can be described fairly as cool, Canada and India have begun negotiating a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). Canada’s main interests in the CEPA are to secure transparency and non-discrimination for Canadians in the Indian...

Canada faces challenges to its living standards and economic position that the events of September 11, 2001, exacerbated. Although made-in-Canada efforts are required to improve our productivity performance, access to the US market is essential but less assured than it was. Paradoxically, a...

This paper presents a Canadian perspective on North American integration in the light of major changes in the world economy since the implementation more than a decade ago of the Canada-US FTA and the NAFTA. These changes highlight the need for completion of these FTA projects by totally...

This paper assesses China's transformation using a long-term economic growth framework and explores the implications for the rest of us. It does this by reviewing the main drivers of growth: inputs of capital, labor, land and new technologies, and the role of key institutions. It then discusses...

India is a land of contrasts. Indian information technology (IT) services firms are globally competitive but many manufacturers still seek protection from foreign competitors. Economic growth rates are speeding up but trade is still a small share of the world total. Logistics infrastructure is...

How is the Chinese economy making the transition from imitation to innovation as the source of sustained long-term growth? We address this question using the evolutionary approach to growth in which institutions support technical advance and enterprises develop capabilities to learn and...