Published September 15, 2012
by iris_author
Thursday, 20 September 2012 | 2:30 to 4pm | 305 Founders College | York University
The Trudeau period was a golden age in the history of Canadian Official Development Assistance (ODA) after Canada began its ODA with the Colombo Plan to South and Southeast Asia. During this period, many unprecedented achievements were achieved in aid scale, policy making, aid channels, and regional distribution of recipients, aid program contents and aid purposes. The great development of Canadian ODA during this period was not only prompted by the demand for a fair economic order from the third world, the aid supply sharing policy of the United States and the ODA theory transition, but also by Canadian economic growth, public support, just society building, a new conception of world security and by nationalism as a middle power. The Canadian ODA during the Trudeau years was full of much more humanitarianism and altruism than before, in spite of the fact that it also served Canadian economic interests in the developing countries to some degree.
This paper focuses on the following three aspects: the achievements of Canadian ODA made during the Trudeau period, the factors making these achievements possible and its goals.
Jiantao He is a Visiting Graduate Associate at the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) and a PhD Candidate at The Canadian Studies Centre, Nankai University. He is also Director Assistant and Assistant Researcher at the Centre for Canadian Studies at Fujian Normal University, China.
This event is hosted by the Development Studies programme and the York Centre for Asian Research.
For more information, email ycar@yorku.ca.
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