Remarks at the 20th German - Canadian Conference ... "Comparing German and Canadian Experiences : getting Development Right", Collegium Glashütten, Glashütten / Taunus, near Frankfurt, Germany, Oct. 14-16, 2005
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2005
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IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA
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Past IDRC president Maureen O’Neil addresses aspects of Chinese and Indian development stories, then turns to Canadian development policy. She comments on Canada’s too-modest donor commitments to both India and China. Development policy has often been devised and advanced, to some degree, in a culture of insiderism—by insiders who have too little knowledge of entrepreneurial business. “…As a last point, let me comment on what I believe has been a costly failure by all of us in the aid-and-development community. I refer here to the long and general neglect of the business sector in developing countries.”
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DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, TRADE LIBERALIZATION, ECONOMIC REFORM, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, GOVERNMENT POLICY, IDRC, CHINA, INDIA, CANADA, CIDA, NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, CAPACITY BUILDING, SMALL ENTERPRISES, WTO, GOVERNANCE, GLOBALIZATION, BUSINESS CREATION, GLOBAL SOUTH, GERMANY