Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not opposed to new investments. You won't be shocked to hear me say this. It's not so much in whether we are increasing or decreasing the level of investment. It's in how we are doing it. What is the mechanism we are using to to it? Again, I don't want to continue banging o

Foreign Affairs committee  There is no doubt that in times of crisis, gender-based violence increases. We are currently in the 16 days of recognizing that effect right now and trying to work toward eliminating it. It is happening. The one area that is overlooked or not being looked at enough is women, pe

Foreign Affairs committee  There is enormous international co-operation, I think, for the vaccines to get to developing countries. I'm not so concerned about that, and people here don't seem that much concerned that the vaccines wouldn't get to them. They are concerned about what comes after. What are we g

Foreign Affairs committee  Is that for me or for Professor Dagher?

Foreign Affairs committee  Right now, a lot or a big majority, say, maybe close to 60% or 70%, of DFI banks don't have the kinds of capitalization and liquidity they need to support their markets. It's good to develop financial solutions, but there should definitely be a mandate or some kind of policy wher

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll say that first we need to increase access to finance. For local producers, there's a big disconnect between the local producers and the resources they have to get their goods to market. Like I said, I'm in Nigeria today and I go to Azerbaijan tomorrow, and in both countries,

Foreign Affairs committee  Blended finance is an emerging area of doing finance. I would argue it is more enduring for the next level of folks when they graduate out of that poverty strata at the bottom of the pyramid level. It's a tool that allows them to stay above that and also to leverage a lot of priv

Foreign Affairs committee  If I understand your question correctly, you are asking if Canadian aid is focused on where it gets the most results and impact. From a policy perspective, I think, yes, there's pretty much very little difference between successive Canadian governments in terms of how internation

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee, for inviting me to appear before you today. Greetings. I am coming in from Lagos, Nigeria. It is about 10:27 p.m. here. It's an honour to get to talk to you folks about what's happening on the ground in a developing country, as well as to fiel