SOURCE: Wikipedia, captured 2020-07-10
Mentioned here [2012-12]; Mapping Corporate Power In Saskatchewan
Critiqued (obliquely) here [2020-05-07]: Trading our lives for their profits: The plan to sacrifice low-wage workers
The C.D. Howe Institute (French: Institut C.D. Howe) is a Canadian nonprofit policy research organization in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The C.D. Howe Institute is supported by membership fees paid by corporations as well as individuals in the business, professional and academic fields. As a registered charity, membership fees are eligible for tax refunds from the government of Canada. It is located in the Trader's Bank Building in downtown Toronto.
The C.D. Howe Institute publishes research that is national in scope and hosts events across Canada on a wide variety of issues in economic and social policy. As a non-profit, politically independent organization, its official mandate is to improve the standard of living for Canadians through public policy solutions.
The C.D. Howe Institute's origins go back to Montreal in 1958 when a group of prominent business and labour leaders organized the Private Planning Association of Canada (PPAC) to research and promote educational activities on issues related to public economic policy. In 1973, the PPAC's assets and activities became part of the C.D. Howe Memorial Foundation, created in 1961 to memorialize the late Right Honourable Clarence Decatur Howe. The new organization operated as the C.D. Howe Research Institute until 1982, when the Memorial Foundation chose to focus directly on memorializing C.D. Howe; the institute then adopted its current name: the C.D. Howe Institute.
The C.D. Howe Institute's research has been cited by Liberal, New Democrat and Conservative members of parliament. The media has described the C.D. Howe Institute as a centrist, Right-wing , conservative, non-partisan, think tank. It has a history of publishing research on both sides of the ideological spectrum, provided it is supported with empirical evidence. It has been described as having a "deep intellectual grounding to its public-policy approach."
The C.D. Howe Institute derives the majority of its funding from membership fees paid by corporations as well as individuals in the business, professional and academic fields.
In 2019 the C.D. Howe Institute received a grant of $46,000 from the Donner Canadian Foundation.
The C.D. Howe Institute has had considerable impact on Canadian public policy. C.D. Howe Institute policy work has laid the intellectual groundwork in such areas as these:
The C.D. Howe Institute publishes over 60 research reports per year.
Major areas of policy research are:
Over 100 economists and academics contribute to the research program. Notable researchers (past and present) include:
Richard Blundell, professor, Department of Economics, University College London
Marcel Boyer, professor emeritus of industrial economics, Université de Montréal
Willem Buiter, chief economist, Citigroup Centre
Marshall A. Cohen, past Deputy Canadian Minister of Finance, honorary director of C.D. Howe Institute
John Crow, former governor of the Bank of Canada
Janet Currie, Henry Putnam Prof. of Economics & Public Affairs, Princeton University
David A. Dodge, former governor of the Bank of Canada
Don Drummond (economist), Stauffer-Dunning Fellow, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University
Ivan Fellegi, former Chief Statistician of Canada and senior fellow, C.D. Howe Institute
Konrad von Finckenstein, former chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and senior fellow, C.D. Howe Institute
Claude Forget, former Minister of Health, Quebec
Peter Howitt, Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences, Brown University; C.D. Howe Institute Academic Adviser on Economic Growth and Innovation
David Laidler, emeritus professor, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario
John McCallum, Minister of Immigration, Citizenship and Refugees
Robert Mundell, Nobel Prize-winning professor of economics at Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sylvia Ostry, former Chief Statistician of Canada and former head of the Department of Economics and Statistics of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Christoper Ragan, associate professor, McGill University
Grant Reuber, senior fellow, C.D. Howe Institute
John Richards, professor, School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University; Roger Phillips Scholar of Social Policy, C.D. Howe Institute
William B. P. Robson, president and chief executive officer, C.D. Howe Institute
Marshall Rothstein, former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Robert J. Shiller, Nobel Prize-winning professor at Yale University
Joel Slemrod, Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan
John Stackhouse, former editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail, and senior fellow, C.D. Howe Institute
Gordon Thiessen, former governor of the Bank of Canada
Howard Wetston, former chair & CEO, Ontario Securities Commission and senior fellow, C.D. Howe Institute
Lawrence J. White, deputy chair, Economics, New York University
Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
Business Cycle -- "Mortgage Insurance as a Macroprudential Tool: Dealing with the Risk of a Housing Market Crash in Canada"
Demographics and Immigration -- " The Benefits of Hindsight: Lessons from the QPP for Other Pension Plans"
Education, Skills and Labour Market -- "What to Do about Canada's Declining Math Scores"
Fiscal and Tax Policy -- "By the Numbers: The Fiscal Accountability of Canada's Senior Governments, 2015"
Innovation and Business Growth -- "Simplifying the Rule Book: a Proposal to Reform and Clarify Canada's Policy on Inward Foreign Direct Investment"
The C.D. Howe Institute hosts public policy roundtables and conferences featuring prominent Canadian and International policymakers, business leaders and public servants. The C.D. Howe Institute holds over 80 events per year.
Past speakers include political leaders (including two current or former Prime Ministers), policy makers, business leaders and senior diplomats.
The C.D. Howe Institute has won five Doug Purvis Prizes, which are awarded annually by the Canadian Economics Association to the authors of highly significant Canadian economic policy, and one Donner Prize (runner-up three times), which are awarded annually by the Donner Canadian Foundation for the Best Public Policy Book by a Canadian.
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