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Stephen Brown
Professor, School of Political Studies

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Budget fédéral 2021 : aide au développement 0
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- 3 mai 2021
Le Canada tient de beaux discours en matière d’aide au développement. Des gouvernements canadiens successifs se vantent des mérites de leurs nouvelles initiatives aux airs impressionnants et du rôle de leadership du pays sur la scène mondiale. Plus récemment, le …
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15 propositions pour l’aide canadienne 0
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- 11 janvier 2015
Ce texte a été publié dans Un seul monde du Huffington Post Québec, le 8 janvier 2015.

Lorsque le gouvernement Harper a aboli l’Agence canadienne de développement international et transféré ses fonctions au nouveau ministère des Affaires étrangères, du Commerce …
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Mr. Harper’s Maternal and Child Health Summit: What’s Still Missing?0
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- 11 juin 2014
By Rieky Stuart and Stephen Brown

Published on the McLeod Group Blog, June 10, 2014

The Canadian government’s recent Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Summit in Toronto has not lacked for cheerleaders, especially NGOs receiving funding under the …
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CIDA’s Underspending: The Minister’s Explanations Don’t Add Up 0
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- 28 avril 2014
While global foreign aid reached an all-time high in 2013, the Canadian government’s contributions fell by over 11%. Among the 28 industrialized countries belonging to the Development Assistance Committee, only debt-ridden Portugal cut aid more drastically than Canada. Not …
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When Policy Coherence is a Bad Thing 0
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- 3 février 2014
In July 2013, when the government abolished the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and transferred its functions to the newly renamed Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD), it did so mainly in the name of policy coherence. The …
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Killing CIDA: The Wrong Solution to Real Problems 0
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- 25 mars 2013
Many supporters of DFAIT’s recently announced takeover of CIDA are invoking spurious arguments. More fundamentally, most commentators are missing the crucial point that this new arrangement will do little or nothing to fix the actual problems with Canadian foreign aid. …
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Foreign Aid: More of the Same?0
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- 21 septembre 2012
Publié dans Embassy Magazine, 19 septembre 2012

Canada’s contributions to reducing global poverty are rarely a priority topic for debate in the House of Commons. Foreign aid is an important tool for supporting international development, but it will likely …
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Bev Oda’s Real Legacy at CIDA 0
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- 10 juillet 2012
Media commentary has been remarkably lenient regarding Bev Oda’s record at the end of her five-year stint as Canada’s Minister of International Cooperation. Coverage has by and large ignored how, under her watch, the government systematically undermined both the fundamental …
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Transitional Justice As Subterfuge 0
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- 10 mai 2012
Transitional justice is trendy. After a civil war or political transition, the new government will often announce one or more of a variety of mechanisms for dealing with the past, such as a special tribunal or a truth commission.

What …
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Putting the Corporate Back Into CSR: A Rejoinder to Natalie Brender 0
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- 20 janvier 2012
In a blog post yesterday, my colleague Natalie Brender rejected a recent Ottawa Citizen column’s condemnations of the use of CIDA funds to subsidize Canadian mining companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects in mining-affected communities in developing countries.

The crux …
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