Foreign Affairs committee  This is a great question. I would start with CIDA's 20 countries of focus, and I would crosswalk it to the diasporas. I would start by mapping that. I think you could engage with diasporas in a number of ways. One question is can CIDA use its ODA money here? Why do I ask that?

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. It's been an honour and a privilege. Thank you very much.

Foreign Affairs committee  I think you've put your finger on something that is a common problem, whether it's the World Bank or the UN. You've put your finger on a number of different things. Let me just comment on a couple of them, and I'll come back to your question if I have time. I agree that Africa i

Foreign Affairs committee  I think this issue on sharing and taking risks is very hard for civil servants. They get burned once or twice, it hurts their career or it's embarrassing, and it's hard. So you have all these disincentives. I think it requires leadership from the top, from ministers, but also fr

Foreign Affairs committee  I just want to say that I think this committee, in terms of its reporting and asking questions, should be saying they support building economic foundations, which is something CIDA is talking about. This is exactly the sort of thing that Hernando de Soto was talking about in term

Foreign Affairs committee  I was not, but I like them very much. I know them well. I have friends who've worked with them. Will Inboden and Mike Magan were both with me in government together in a prior administration. They're friends of mine, and they worked at the Legatum Center. They are not there any m

Foreign Affairs committee  I have a couple of things. There are several legatums. There's the Legatum Center at MIT. Let me just speak to that as well. Iqbal Quadir is the founder of the Legatum Center at MIT. He's from Bangladesh, and he started 15 years ago, when no one thought it was possible to have th

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. Let me just take the example of some of these countries where there's an overlap that's a Canadian focus area and where there's an interest in the extractive sector. I think Canadian CIDA needs to have the capacity and ability to convene and speak to privat

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm sorry, do you mean for CIDA?

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. I've written about this, and I'll submit some articles that I've written in the OECD Observer, which is the magazine of the DAC, the Development Assistance Committee, which for those of you who follow this stuff is the National Hockey League—since I'm here in Canada—of the d

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. I think many of the opportunities to work with companies--I know that CIDA works on issues around food security--are around supply chains. These are reaching to smaller farmers. So to the extent that CIDA, agri-business companies, or extractive industry pla

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's an honour and a privilege to be here in Canada. Thank you very much for the invitation. I'm Dan Runde, and as you described, I'm the director of the Project on Prosperity and Development and the William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis at CSIS.

Foreign Affairs committee  As this committee well knows, in addition to massive encouragement and the massive increase in ODA, remittance flow from Canada to developing countries in 2009 was over $12 billion Canadian. Just think about that. There was $5 billion in official development assistance, more or l