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Resetting Social Assistance Reform

October 29, 2019

The goal of this paper for Ontario360 is to provide advice on how the Government of Ontario can undertake social assistance reform that both improves outcomes for Ontarians with low incomes and is consistent with the government’s priorities. This report provides six...

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Transit in the Greater Toronto Area: How to get back on the rails

October 3, 2019

Toronto is an emerging global city. Yet the failure to build rapid transit in step with the explosive growth of the past 40 years is one of the city-region’s biggest impediments to inclusive development and prosperity. The GTA needs fit-for-purpose...

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Automation, AI and Anxiety: Policy Preferred, Populism Possible

August 2, 2019

Who is fearful of automation and what do they want politicians to do about it? This paper,co-authored by Benjamin Allen Stevens and the Munk School’s Peter Loewen, finds a correlation between Canadians’ fear of job losses from automation and populist...

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Policy Transformation in Canada: Is the Past Prologue?

April 11, 2019

Edited by CAROLYN HUGHES TUOHY, SOPHIE BORWEIN, PETER JOHN LOEWEN, AND ANDREW POTTER Canada’s centennial anniversary in 1967 coincided with a period of transformative public policymaking. This period saw the establishment of the modern welfare state, as well as significant...

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World Ordering – A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution

April 11, 2019

by EMANUEL ADLER Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach, this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative theory of change and stability of international social orders. It argues that practices and their background knowledge...

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Global Environmental Governance and the Accountability Trap

March 28, 2019

Edited by Susan Park and Teresa Kramarz An examination of whether accountability mechanisms in global environmental governance that focus on monitoring and enforcement necessarily lead to better governance and better environmental outcomes. The rapid development of global environmental governance has...

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Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme: Addressing Food Insecurity with Food and Cash Transfers

Reach Project – Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme: Addressing Food Insecurity with Food and Cash Transfers

February 22, 2019

The Reach Project is a research initiative based in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and supported by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth. They examine the successful delivery of social services to those who are hardest...

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Neighborhood Upgrading in Tunisia: Connecting Informal Housing with Basic Services

Reach Project – Neighborhood Upgrading in Tunisia: Connecting informal housing with basic services

February 22, 2019

The Reach Project is a research initiative based in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and supported by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth. They examine the successful delivery of social services to those who are hardest...

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Eliminating Malaria in Sri Lanka

Reach Project: Eliminating Malaria in Sri Lanka

February 22, 2019

The Reach Project is a research initiative based in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and supported by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth. They examine the successful delivery of social services to those who are hardest...

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Cash Transfers in Palestine: Building Blocks of Social Protection

Reach Project – Cash Transfers in Palestine: Building Blocks of Social Protection

February 22, 2019

The Reach Project is a research initiative based in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and supported by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth. They examine the successful delivery of social services to those who are hardest...

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