Foreign Affairs committee  First of all, infrastructure and education are probably the two most important capital-building types of expenditures that governments can undertake, and of course they can be very poorly done, as opposed to well done. What you want to do is get them well done. Also, we know tha

Foreign Affairs committee  Actually, I should that say in a number of missions I was involved in, the Canada trust funds that were given to the World Bank or to the IMF were used to help pay for the consultants who would work in various countries. That's done at the minimum. But I think more than just that

Foreign Affairs committee  I think that's a good question, and I hope I answer you well after hearing the interpretation. In any of these things, I think it's really important that you engage the appropriate NGOs in a country that can help deal with that. For example, we had some tax officials coming fro

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. It's my pleasure to be here. In fact it's a bit of fun for me, in the sense that I spent a number of years working on developing-country issues with the World Bank and the IMF. I toted up the number of countries I worked on during the late 1980s and in the