Africa has become the world’s fastest-growing continent, according to the African Development Bank, with around one-third of its countries projected to achieve GDP growth by more than six percent. Enjoying a new dynamism as a result of dramatic improvement ...
Taken alone, the American manufacturing sector would be the world’s 8th largest economy, supporting an estimated 17.4 million jobs in the US. Yet manufacturers have a vast array of options around the world when deciding where to invest and hire—and the glo ...
Canadians and Americans share one of the closest energy relationships in the world, trading substantial volumes of primary energy and electricity to each other’s markets. As important as this relationship is, it is not only underappreciated by policymakers ...
In addition to more traditional biofuels, the Great Lakes region’s diverse agriculture and forestry base creates a rich array of waste biomass, i.e., residuals. In some cases, these residuals are put to beneficial use. In other cases, however, they represe ...
From August 8-11, 2011, a leadership delegation from The Chicago Council on Global Affairs traveled to the provinces of Manitoba and Alberta to learn more about critical aspects of US-Canada energy trade and to shed light on current issues affecting this r ...
Join Chicago Council Emerging Leader Olga Camargo for a discussion on the Hispanic population and market in Chicago and nationally. She will draw from her financial background and experience advising the private sector on cross-cultural issues.Young Profes ...
In early August, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird. The topic: TransCanada’s $7 billion Keystone XL project, a proposed pipeline from the Northern Alberta oil sands—the third-largest proven reserves of oil in ...
US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and Canada’s International Trade Minister Edward Fast appeared at a Chicago Council lunch to speak about the future of the US-Canadian economic and security relationship at a luncheon program hosted by The Chicago Co ...
Event Summary by Richard C. Longworth Economic inequality and political dysfunction have created a “schism in the soul in America” that threatens the very future of our civilization, author and journalist Hedrick Smith told The Chicago Council Thursday ev ...
http://blogs.ft.com/the-a-list/2014/04/17/putin-is-succeeding-in-uniting-the-wes... Ivo H. Daalder April 17, 2014 Financial TimesEurope, North America, Global SecurityGlobal SecurityEurope, North America Ivo H. Daalder ...
