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• The Global Economic Crisis: Can Canada escape a lost decade?

  02/09/12   Meeting (Link)

  Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Event

  On January 26, 2012, in Ottawa, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives organized an event titled "The Global Economic Crisis: Can Canada escape a lost decade?" The first session examined perspectives on the crisis and the way forward, and featured Yanis Varoufakis (Department of Economic Sciences, University of Athens) and Stephany Griffith-Jones (Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University).

• Introduction of a Financial Transaction Tax

  02/08/12   Meeting (Link)

  S&D Group at European Parliament.

  Introduction of a financial transaction tax: Press conference by EP Vice-President Anni Podimata and Stephany Griffith-Jones, Financial Markets Programme Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University.

• Prof Joseph Stiglitz: A Call for Multilateral Trade

  12/16/11   Interview

  Interview with HKTDC

  Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says he has "a lot of reservations" about the recently formed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) led by the United States, but not including China. Stiglitz, a key speaker at January's Asian Financial Forum 2012 in Hong Kong, believes the US relationship with China is key to global trade and Hong Kong remains an important interface.

  AFF website: http://www.asianfinancialforum.com

  Event media release: http://www.asianfinancialforum.com/pdf/AFF_2012_PR_General_Nov22.pdf

• The Silver Lining of a New Economic Beginning

  12/01/11   Interview

  Institute for New Economic Thinking

  A Nobel Laureate is heartened that the global crisis has demolished the free market fundamentalist paradigm and opened up the possibilities for a 21st-century economics.

• Stiglitz Sees Significant Risk of Europe Recession

  11/28/11   Interview (Link)

  Bloomberg

  Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz talks about the risk of a recession in Europe and fiscal policy. He speaks from Helsinki with Francine Lacqua on Bloomberg Television's "Countdown." (Source: Bloomberg)