Jacqueline Best

Canada Needs to Do a Better Job of Managing Financial Uncertainty 0
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- 5 juin 2015
Published in the Hill Times, May 25, 2015

As Canadians, we pride ourselves on how well our financial regulations coped with the 2008 financial crisis. Given this attitude, it’s not surprising that Canadian policymakers have avoided a major overhaul …
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What Counts as Policy Failure — And Why It Matters 0
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- 6 mars 2015
When things go wrong in politics, the word ‘failure’ gets bandied around a lot. In recent weeks, we’ve heard about the failure of Canadian drug policy (as admitted by Stephen Harper), the failure of Canadian diplomatic efforts to get Barack …
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What Economic Uncertainty Means for Canadian Policymakers 0
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- 23 octobre 2014
If you have been reading the financial press over the past week, you know that the global economy’s chances are looking a lot more uncertain these days. What you may not know, however, is that this more recent upswing in …
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Hedging Bets: Aid Agencies’ New Preoccupation with Failure 0
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- 11 septembre 2014
An earlier version of this essay appeared on RegBlog.org

Nobody likes to admit failure—least of all government-funded development organizations in hard economic times. Yet recent years have seen a number of prominent development agencies confess to failure. The International Monetary …
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The Austerity Trap 0
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- 4 décembre 2011
As the prognosis for the global economy gets darker by the day, we are hearing one word over and over: austerity. The British government has announced that it will extend its austerity measures past the next election in 2015. In …
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Economic Exceptionalism 0
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- 13 octobre 2011
In the aftermath of 9/11, we entered a moment of political exceptionalism: we were told that in normal times, certain basic civil rights applied, but these were exceptional times and the normal rules didn’t apply. Suddenly, practices like torture, detention …
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