ICTSD • Dr. Sylvia OSTRY

Sylvia Ostry is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. She has a Ph.D. in economics from McGill University and Cambridge. After teaching and doing research at a number of Canadian universities and at the University of Oxford Institute of Statistics, she joined the Federal Government in 1964. Among the posts she held were Chief Statistician, Deputy Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, Chairman of the Economic Council of Canada, Deputy Minister of International Trade, Ambassador for Multilateral Trade Negotiations and the Prime Minister’s Personal Representative for the Economic Summit. From 1979 to 1983 she was Head of the Economics and Statistics Department of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. In 1989 she was Volvo Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, New York. From 1990 to 1997 she was Chairman, Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.
Her work has been recognized with numerous honorary degrees from universities in Canada and abroad. In 1987, Dr. Ostry received the Outstanding Achievement Award of the Government of Canada. In December 1990, she was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. In June 1991, she was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is a director of Power Financial Corporation and Power Corporation. She is an Expert Adviser to the Commission on Transnational Corporations of the United Nations and a member of the Board of Distinguished Advisors for the Center for the Study of Central Banks. Dr. Ostry is a member of the Group of Thirty in Washington and a founding member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. In 1992, the Sylvia Ostry Foundation annual lecture series was launched by Madam Sadako Ogata, then the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Dr. Ostry herself is a frequent speaker to diverse Canadian and international audiences. Dr. Ostry has written numerous books and articles on various aspects of the international economy, with a particular emphasis on the development and elaboration of the multilateral trading system as well as the impact of globalization.

*Taken form the Canada Department of Foreign Affairs Web page
Academic Background

Ph.D Cambridge University and McGill 1954
M.A. McGill University 1950
B.A.(honours economics) McGill University 1948
Doctorate (honoris causa):
of Law University of New Brunswick 1971
of Law York University 1971
of Law McGill University 1972
of Law University of Western Ontario 1973
of Law McMaster University 1973
of Law University of British Columbia 1973
of Law Queen’s University 1975
of Law Brock University 1975
of Law Mount Allison University 1975
of Management Sciences University of Ottawa 1976
of Letters Laurentian University 1977
of Law Acadia University 1981
of Law American College of Switzerland 1983
of Law University of Winnipeg 1984
of Law University of Manitoba 1986
of Law Concordia University 1986
of Law University of Windsor 1987
of Law University of Waterloo 1997

Areas of Expertise
Present Position (s)

Distinguished Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 1997 -
Chancellor Emerita, University of Waterloo, 1997

Previous Position (s)

Chairman, Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 1990 - 1997
Chancellor, The University of Waterloo , May 1, 1991 - 1996
Chairman, The National Council of the Canadian
Institute of International Affairs, 1990 - 1995
Western Co-Chairman, The Blue Ribbon Commission for Hungary’s Economic Recovery, 1990 - 1994
Volvo Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 1989.
Ambassador for Multilateral Trade Negotiations and the Prime Minister’s Personal Representative for the Economic Summit, 1985 - 88.
Deputy Minister, International Trade, and Coordinator, International Economic Relations, 1984 85. Responsible for directing work of the Department of External Affairs with respect to trade promotion, trade development and trade policy. As Coordinator, responsible for injecting international economic considerations into the review of domestic policy and enhancing the role of Canada in the multilateral economic environment.
Head of the Department of Economics and Statistics of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, 1979 83.
Responsible for directing the work of the Department, which examines the main problems facing economic policy makers in Membercountries; the options open to them; and the likely international repercussions of particular interest in order to facilitate inter governmental cooperation within the industrialized world.
Chairman, Economic Council of Canada, 1978 79.
Responsible for fulfilling the dual role assigned to the Council, that of providing independent economic advice to the government, and of increasing the level of understanding of the Canadian public of the economic issues facing the country.
Deputy Minister, Consumer and Corporate Affairs Canada and Deputy Registrar General, 1975 78.
Responsible for the overall administration of the various laws, programs and activities designed to foster a healthy, competitive market system.
Chief Statistician of Canada, Statistics Canada, 1972 75.
Responsible for planning and administering Canada’s central statistical system.

Other Activities and Memberships

Memberships 1970 79:
Board of Governors or Councils of Canadian Universities:
York, Carleton, Management Studies, University of Toronto
Rhodes Scholarship Trust, Ontario
Harvard College Overseers, Economic Department Visiting Committee
Memberships Continuing:
American Statistical Association (Fellow)
American Economic Association
Academic Advisory Council of the Deputy Ministry for International Trade
Canadians in Europe (Honorary member)
Canadian Institute of International Affairs
Center for the Study of Central Banks, (Board of Distinguished Advisors)
Group of Thirty (Consultative Group on International Economic and Monetary Affairs, Inc.)
Institute for International Economics, Washington (member of Advisory Board) Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, D.C.
Expert Advisor, Commission on Transnational Corporations, UNCTAD, Geneva
United Nations University/World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki (member of Board)
World ORT Union, London, (Academic Advisory Board)
Pacific Council on International Policy (Founding Member)
Directorships ( Until May 2002)
Power Corporation
Power Financial Corporation
International Advisory Council, Power Financial Corporation
Selected Research Activities:
University of Oxford Institute of Statistics, Research Officer, 1955 57
Statistics Canada, Director, Special Manpower Studies andConsultation, 1965 69.

Recent Publications

Books and Monographs:

Labour Policy and Labour Economics in Canada, (with H. W. Woods) Macmillan Co. of Canada, Toronto, 1962. Second Edition (with Mahmood A. Zaidi) l972. Third Edition, 1979.
Economic Status of the Ageing, Ottawa (Dominion Bureau of Statistics), 1966 (with Miss J. Podoluk).
The Female Worker: Labour Force and Occupational Trends, Ottawa (Department of Labour), 1966 (with N. Meltz).
Regional Statistical Studies (editor, with T. K. Rymes), University of Toronto Press, 1966.
Historical Estimates of the Canadian Labour Force (with F. T. Denton), Queen’s Printer, Ottawa, 1967.
Provincial Differences in Labour Force Participation, Queen’s Printer, Ottawa, 1968.
The Occupational Composition of the Canadian Labour Force, Queen’s Printer, Ottawa, 1968.
Unemployment in Canada, Queen’s Printer, Ottawa, 1968.
The Female Worker in Canada, Queen’s Printer, Ottawa, 1968.
Geographic Composition of the Canadian Labour Force, Queen’s Printer, Ottawa, 1968.
Working Life Tables for Canadian Males, Queen’s Printer, Ottawa, 1968 (with Frank T. Denton).
Canadian Higher Education in the Seventies, (Editor), Queen’s Printer, Ottawa, 1972.
Education and Work in the Modern Society, (with Prof. Clark Kerr et. al.), OECD, Paris, 1975.
International Economic Policy Coordination, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House Papers 30, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1986 (with Michael Artis).
Unemployment , Causes and Cures, University of Toronto Press, 1986 (editor with Morley Gunderson and Noah Meltz).
Unemployment: International Perspectives, University of Toronto Press, March 28, 1987 (ed. with Morley Gunderson and Noah Meltz).
Interdependence: Vulnerability and Opportunity, The Per Jacobsson Foundation Lecture, Washington, D.C., September 27, 1987.
Governments and Corporations in a Shrinking World: The Search for Stability, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 1990.
The Changing International Economic Arena, D.G. Willmot Distinguished Lecture Series, Brock University, Faculty of Business, February 26, 1991.
Authority and Academic Scribblers: The Role of Research in East Asian Policy Reform, (editor), ICS Press, San Francisco, 1991.
The Threat of Managed Trade to Transforming Economies, Occasional Papers NO. 41, Group of Thirty, Washington, 1993.
Technonationalism and Technoglobalism: Conflict and Cooperation, (with Richard Nelson) Brookings Institution, Washington, 1995.
Rethinking Federalism: Citizens, Markets and Governments in a Changing World, (with editors Karen Knop, Richard Simeon, Katherine Swinton) University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1995.
New Dimensions of Market Access, Occasional Papers No. 49, Group of Thirty, Washington, 1995.
The Halifax G-7 Summit: Issues on the Table, (with editor Gilbert R. Winham), the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, 1995.
The Post-Cold War Trading System: Who’s On First?, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997.
A New Regime for Foreign Direct Investment, Occasional Paper 53, Group of Thirty, Washington, 1997.
Group of Thirty Occasional Papers No. 56, “Reinforcing the WTO”, Washington DC, 1998.
Walter Gordon Series in Public Policy: 9th Lecture: “Global Integration: Currents and Counter-Currents”, (editor Anthony Luengo), Massey College, University of Toronto, 2002
China and the Long March to Global Trade: The Accession of China into the WTO, Routledge Curzon, UK, (editor with Alan S. Alexandroff and Rafael Gomez). September 2002.

Articles:

“Wage Criteria in Collective Bargaining”, Industrial and Labour Relations Review, January 1956.
“The Wage Structure of a Large Steel Firm”, Bulletin of the University of Oxford Institute of Statistics, August 1958.
“Interindustry Earnings Differentials in Canada”, Industrial and Labour Relations Review, April 1959.
“Some Aspects of Canadian Wage Structure: Implications for Union Policy”, Proceedings of the McGill Industrial Relations Conference, 1959.
“Inter establishment Dispersion of Occupational Wage Rates: Ontario and Quebec”, Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, May 1960.
“The Canadian Wage Structure”, The Canadian Economy: Selected Readings, editors John J. Deutsch, Burton S. Keirstead, Kari Levitt and Robert M. Will, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 196l, and “Real and Money Wage Levels”, in Revised Edition, 1965.
Senate of Canada, Committee on Manpower and Employment, Vol. VI, “The Definition and Measurement of Unemployment”, 1961.
“The Senate and Unemployment”, Canadian Banker, Winter 1961.
“A Note on Occupational Differentials”, Southern Economic Journal, January 1963.
“The Economic Impact of Canadian Post War Immigration”, Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto, April 1963.
Population and Labour Force Projections to 1970, Ottawa, 1964.
An Analysis of Post War Unemployment, Ottawa, 1964 (with F. T. Denton).
“Economic and Technological Change in the Sixties; Its Implications for Labour Standards Legislation”, Proceedings of Twenty Third Conference of the Canadian Association of Administrators of Labour Legislation, Charlottetown, 1964.
“Use of Job Vacancy Data in Various Countries”, The Measurement and Interpretation of Job Vacancies, National Bureau of Economic Research, New York, 1965.
“Comparative Research Approaches”, Industrial Relations, Vol. 21, No.4, October 1966.
“A Note on Unemployment and Income: Some New Data”, Paper presented to Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa, June 1967.
“The Canadian Job Vacancy Survey”, Discussion, Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Washington, December 1967.
“Canadian Manpower Statistics”, CSR 42(3): i v, March 1967 (with Donald Bailey).
“Labour Force: Growth and Change”, Canada One Hundred: 1867 1967, 1967 (with Frank Denton).
“Problems and Possible Solutions in Measuring Job Vacancies: The Canadian Survey”, National Manpower Advisory Committee Sub Committee on Research, Washington, March 1968.
“The Canadian Job Vacancy Survey: A Measure of Labour Demand”, Proceedings of the 37th Session of the International Statistical Institute, London, 1969 (with Alan Sunter).
“Labour Force Participation and Childbearing Status”, Demography and Educational Planning, (Betty Macleod, editor), Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Monograph Series No. 7, Toronto, 1970.
“Some Methodological Aspects of the 1971 Census in Canada”, Canadian Journal of Economics, (with T. G. Beynon, R. Platek), February 1970.
“Definition and Design Aspects of the Canadian Job Vacancy Survey”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, (with Alan Sunter), September 1970.
“The Canadian Labour Market”, Canadian Labour in Transition, R.W.Miller and F. Isbester (editors), Prentice Hall, Toronto, 197l.
“Research and Data Needs for Canadian Manpower Policy”, Paper presented at a meeting of the Canadian Labour Economists, Queen’s University, Kingston, February 1971, Industrial Relations Centre, reprint.
“Some New Directions”, The Canadian Banker, May June 1971.
“Manpower Policy: A Commentary”, Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Management Association of British Columbia, 1972.
“Unemployment”, Canadian Perspectives in Economics, Collier Macmillan Canada Ltd., 1972.
Industrial Relations and Inflation, International Industrial Relations Association, 3rd World Congress Reports, London, September 1973.
“How Tight are Labour Markets?”, Canadian Economic Forum, The Economic Outlook and Supply Shortages, The Conference Board of Canada, Ottawa, April 1974.
“The Delicate Balance of Information Needs and Public Burden”, Cost and Management, July/August 1974.
“Indirect Labour Compensation in Canada”, (with Mahmood A. Zaidi), Contemporary Issues in Canadian Personnel Administration, Harish C. Jain (editor), Prentice Hall of Canada Ltd, 1974.
“The Limits of Measurability”, Common Sense Economics, Vol.II, No.2, January 1975, University of Waterloo, Ontario.
“The Unemployment Rate: Superstatistic?”, Common Sense Economics, Vol.III, No.1, March 1975, University of Waterloo, Ontario.
“Education and the ‘New Home Economics’”, Queen’s Quarterly, Vol. LXXXII, No.4, 1975.
“Industrial Relations After Wage and Price Control: Panel Discussion”, Canadian Public Policy Analyse de Politiques, Vol.IV, No.4, 1978.
“Competition Policy and the Self Regulating Professions”, The Professions and Public Policy, P. Slayton and M.J. Trebilcock, editors, University of Toronto Press, 1978.
“Science, Technology and Human Resources: Population and Education”, Comments on Paper by Lard Vaizey, presented at NATO’s Science Committee’s 20th Anniversary Commemoration Conference, Brussels, April 11, 1978.
“Government Intervention in Democratic Economies: A Comparison of Canada and the United States”, Conference on Canadian U.S. Economic Relations, Occasional Paper No. 2, Joint Conference, Institute for Research on Public Policy and the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., May 1978.
Keynote address to the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Business Economics, Canadian Business Economics, No. 2, 1978.
Panel participant, “Consultation and Consensus: A new Era in Policy Formulation?”, A report from the Compensation Research Centre of The Conference Board in Canada, December 1978.
“The World Economy in the 1970s and the 1980s”, OECD Observer, March 1980.
“Productivity Trends in Canada”, (with P. S. Rao), in Lagging Productivity Growth: Causes and Remedies, edited by Shlomo Maital and Noah M. Meltz, Cambridge, Mass. 1980.
“One in Three”, Retirement Income Systems, Canadian Gerontological Collection II, Canadian Association of Gerontology, 1981.
“The Cost of OPEC II”, (with John Llewellyn and Lee Samuelson), The OECD Observer, March 1982.
“Energy and Growth: The Impact of the Second Oil Shock on Performance of the OECD Economies”, Economic Interests in the 1980s: Convergence or Divergence, Gregory Flynn, editor, The Atlantic Institute for International Affairs, Paris, 1982.
“The Structure and Evolution of Canadian Manpower Policy: An Overview”, (with Keith Newton) in Human Resources, Employment and Development, Vol. 3: The Problems of Developed Countries and the International Economy, edited by Burton A. Weisbrod and Helen Hughes, Macmillan, London, 1982.
“The United States and Europe”, OECD Observer, May 1982 (with Val Koromzay).
“The Elusive Recovery”, International Herald Tribune and Forex Research Conference, Paris, November 1982.
“The OECD Economies in the 1980s: Coping with Change”, Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Series IV, Vol. XX, 1982.
“Economic Forecast for 1983: World Trends”, Financial Times World Banking Conference, London, December 1982.
“The Structure and Evolution of Canadian Manpower Policy: An Overview”, Human Resources, Employment and Development, Vol. 3, The Problems of Developed Countries and the International Economy, Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress of the International Economic Association, Mexico City, Burton Weisbrod and Helen Hughes, editors, New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1983 (with Keith Newton).
“Labour Market Policy in Europe Does Full Employment Remain a Utopian Idea?”, The European Economy in the 1980s, IFO Institute for Economic Research, Munich, 1983 (with Ezio Tarentelli and Manfred Wegner).
“The World Economic Outlook: Stable Expansion or Turbulent Adjustment Phase?”, International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies, Geneva, June 1983.
“OECD Economic Outlook: How We Got Here and Where We’re Headed”, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 2, No. 2, April 1984.
“The need for Macroeconomic Coordination on the International Level”, International Herald Tribune/Trade Net Conference, Washington, January 1984.
“The World Economy: Marking Time”, Foreign Affairs, February 1984.
1984 Alan B. Plaunt Memorial Lecture, Carleton University, Ottawa, April 1984.
“Canada, Japan and International Trade”, Inter National, Vol. 10, No. 2, January 1985, The Air Canada Magazine of Export and Import Trade.
“Government Intervention: Canada U.S.”, Canadian Politics: A Comparative Reader, R. Landes, editor, Scarborough, Ontario, 1985.
“Adjusting to a Global Economy”, The Canadian Business Review, published by The Conference Board of Canada, Spring, 1985.
“The World Economy”, panel discussion, Europe and the Dollar, Instituto Bancarie San Paolo di Torino, Turin, 1985.
“Policies to Overcome Stagflation”, comments on T. J. Sargent and A. Ando, in Monetary Policy in Our Times, editors, Albert Ando, Hidekazu Eguchi, Roger Farmer and Yoshio Suzuki, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1985.
“The World Trading Environment and Canadian Trade Policy”, Canadian Trade at a Crossroads: Options for New International Agreements, editors David W. Conklin and Thomas J. Courchene, Ontario Economic Council Special Research Report, Toronto, 1985.
“The International Anatomy of Unemployment”, The Jobs Challenge: Pressures and Possibilities, editors Daniel I. Burton, John H. Filer, Douglas A. Fraser and Ray Marshall, Economic Policy Council of the UNA USA, Ballinger Publishing, Cambridge, Mass. 1986.
“From Fine Tuning to Framework Setting in Macro economic Management”, Opportunities and Risks for the World Economy: The Challenge of Increasing Complexity, OECD 25th Anniversary Symposium, Paris, October 1986.
“Changes in World Trade and Investment”, Managing Entry into the 21st Century, the 25th Anniversary Conference of the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs, Panel Discussion I: Economics and Prosperity, Brussels, November 1986.
“Bank and Fund Should Work More Closely With the GATT”, extracts from the Per Jacobsson Foundation Lecture “Interdependence: Vulnerability and Opportunity”, IMF Survey, November 2, 1987.
“An Essay: Interdependence: Vulnerability and Opportunity”, extracts from the Per Jacobsson Foundation Lecture, USIA Economic Impact, March 1988.
“The Role of International Surveillance and Policy Coordination”, comment on paper by Andrew Crockett, Macroeconomic Policies in an Interdependent World, editors Ralph Bryant et. al., The Brookings Institution, Centre for Economic Policy Research, International Monetary Fund, Washington, 1989.
“The Implications of Developing Trends in Trade Policy”, Business Economics, The Journal of the National Association of Business Economists, Edmund A. Mennis, editor, Vol.XXV, No.1, January 1990.
“Regional Trading Blocs: Pragmatic or Problematic Policy?” (with C. Michael Aho) in Global Economy: America’s Role in the Decade Ahead. editors William Brock and Robert D. Hormats. The American Assembly, New York, 1990.
“The Competition of the Internal Market: Growth Locomotive or Fortress Europe?” in The Completion of the Internal Market: Symposium 1989. editor Horst Siebert, Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel, Tübingen: Mohr, 1990.
“New Developments in Trade Policy” in Queen’s Quarterly, editor Martha Bailey, Queen’s University, Kingston, Summer 1990.
“The Soviet Union and Post War Multilateral Institutions”, International Business Scene, Ontario Centre for International Business, Vol.1, No.2, Summer 1990.
“The Global Economy: Governments and Corporations in a Shrinking World,” in The Columbia Journal of World Business, Vol.XXV, Nos.1 & 2, Spring/Summer 1990.
“Europe 1992 and the Evolution of the Multilateral Trading System,” in the Journal of International Law, Case Western Reserve, Vol. 22, Nos. 2 & 3, Spring Summer 1990.
“Antidumping: The Tip of the Iceberg,” in Fair Exchange: Reforming Trade Remedy Laws, ed. Michael Trebilcock and Robert C. York, C.D. Howe Institute, Toronto, November, 1990.
“The New International Economic Agenda,” in Inflight Magazine, Canadian Airlines International, March 1991.
“The Uruguay Round: Unfinished Symphony,” in Finance and Development, International Monetary Fund and World Bank, June 1991.
“Economic Factors and Impacts of Internationalization,” in Think Globally: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference, Quebec, 1990, Institute of Public Administration of Canada, Quebec City, 1991.
“Lessons from the Triad,” in International Competitiveness: Interaction of the Public and the Private Sectors, ed. Irfan ul Haque, Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1991.
“The Place of Intellectual Property Rights in the Evolution of Innovation Policy,” in Global Rivalry and Intellectual Property: Developing Canadian Strategies, ed. Murray G. Smith, Institute for Research on Public Policy, Halifax, N.S., 1991.
“Canada, Europe and the Economic Summits,” in Canada on the Threshold of the 21st Century. European reflections upon the Future of Canada. Selected Papers of the First All-European Canadian Studies Conference. The Hague, The Netherlands, October 24-27, 1990, eds. C.H.W. Remie and J.-M. Lacroix, John Benjamins Publishing Co., Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 1991.
“Beyond the Border: The new International Policy,” in Strategic Industries in a Global Economy: Policy Issues for the 1990’s, OECD, OECD International Futures Programme, Paris 1991.
“Economic Justice: Reality and Illusion - I,” in Communications in the New Millenium: Selected Proceedings of the XII Public Relations World Congress, Toronto, Canada June 6-9, 1991, eds. Ray Argyle and Brigitte C. Mertling, Webcom, Scarborough, 1991.
“Economic Aspects of the Canadian Constitutional Debate: An International Perspective,” CIS Working Paper Series, Toronto 1992.
“The Domestic Domain: The New International Policy Arena,” in Transnational Corporations Vol 1, No. 1, February 1992.
“Canada in a Transforming World Economy”, Bank of Montreal Distinguished Visitor Program, Trent University, Trent University Communications, 1992.
“Comment on Tamas Bauer, “Building Capitalism in Hungary,” in The Transformation of Socialist Economies, ed. Horst Siebert. Institut fur Weltwirtschaft an der Universitat Kiel, Tubingen, 1992.
“The NAFTA: Its International Economic Background” in North America Without Borders: Integrating Canada, The United States and Mexico, ed. Stephen J. Randall. University of Calgary Press, Calgary, 1992.
Panel Discussion in North American Free Trade, Assessing the Impact, eds. Nora Lustig, Barry P. Bosworth, and Robert Z. Lawrence, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1992.
“Beyond the Border: The New International Policy Arena” in Competition Policy in an Interdependent World Economy, eds. Erhard Kantzenbach, Hans-Eckart Scharrer and Leonard Waverman. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 1993.
“A nova ordem mundial e a tendência à regionalizaçao” in A Nova Ordem Mundial em Questão, João Paulo Dos Reis Velloso and Luciano Martins (coordenadores). Rio de Janeiro: José Olympio, 1993.
“Global Trends: Global Solutions?” in Essays on Canadian Public Policy, eds. Thomas J. Courchene and Arthur E. Stewart. School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, 1989.
“Canada in the Global Village” in Zeitchrift fur Kanada-Studien, 1993, No.1. Eds. Udo Kempf & Reingard M. Nischik.
“Foreign Direct Investment, Technology Transfer and the Innovation-Network Model” (with Michael Gestrin) in Transnational Corporations, Vol. 2, Number 3, December 1993.
“Preferential Trade Arrangements and the GATT: EC 1992 as Rogue or Role Model?”, Comments, in The Challenge of European Integration, Internal and External Problems of Trade and Money, eds. Berhanu Abegaz, et.al., Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford, 1994.
“Main Trends in the World Economy” in The Evolving New Global Environment for the Development Process, (editor Mihály Simai), United Nations University Press, New York, 1995.
“New Dimensions of Market Access: Overview from a Trade Policy Perspective” in Japanese Investment in Asia, (editor Eileen M. Doherty), The Asia Foundation, BRIE, San Franscisco, California, 1995.
“Competition Policy and the Self-Regulating Professions” in The Sociology of Work in Canada, (editor Audrey Wipper), Carleton University Press, Ottawa, 1995.
“The Changing Pattern of Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in the Electronics Industry in East Asia” (with Farid Harianto) in Transnational Corporations, Volume 4, Number 1, April 1995.
“The 1995 Federal Budget: The International Dimension”, The 1995 Federal Budget: Retrospect and Prospect, editors Thomas J. Courchene and Thomas A. Wilson, John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Policy Forum Series No. 33, John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Kingston, Canada, 1995.
“The New Trade Policy Agenda for the OECD”, in Stockholm Trade Policy Seminar, October 23, 1995, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, Stockholm, 1995.
“National Technology Policies and International Cooperative Linkages Among Private Firms”, The Economics of High-Technology Competition and Cooperation in Global Markets, editors Georg Koopman and Hans Eckart Scharrer, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, Germany, 1996.
“Policy Approaches to System Friction: Convergence Plus”, National Diversity and Global Capitalism, eds. Suzanne Berger and Ronald Dore, Cornell University, Ithica, 1996.
“The Domestic Domain: The New International Policy Arena”, in Companies Without Borders: Transnational Corporations in the 1990s, UNCTAD, Division on Transnational Corporations and Investment, 1996.
“Technology Issues in the International Trading System”, in Market Access After the Uruguay Round: Investment, Competition and Technology Perspectives, OECD, Paris, France, 1996.
“The New Trading System: Global or Regional?”, in The Asia Pacific Region in the Global Economy: A Canadian Perspective, editor Richard Harris, University of Calgary Press, 1996.
“Technology Issues in the International Trading System”, in 1996 Seoul Global Trade Forum: Major Issues for the Global Trade and Financial System, editor Il SaKong, Institute for Global Economics, 1997.
“Globalization and the Nation State” in The Nation State in a Global/Information Era: Policy Challenges, editor Thomas J. Courchene, John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, 1997.
“China and the WTO: The Transparency Issue” in UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs,
1998.
“APEC and Regime Creation in the Asia-Pacific: The OECD Model?”, Asia-Pacific Crossroads: Regime Creation and the Future of APEC, Vinod K. Aggarawal and Charles E. Morrison (eds.), St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1998.
“Technology, Productivity and the Multinational Enterprise”, Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1 (1st Quarter), 1998.
“Reinforcing the WTO”, Group of Thirty Occasional Papers No. 56, Washington, D.C., 1998.
“Origins of The ECC Regulation Reference”, Paper presented at the Conference on Rationality in Public Policy: A Tribute to Douglas G. Hartle, University of Toronto, November, 1998.
“Globalization Implication for Industrial Relations”, Frieder Myer-Krahmer (ed.), Globalisation of R & D and Technology Markets, Heidelberg-New York, 1999.
“Coherence in Global Policy-Making: Is this possible?”, Canadian Business Economics, Volume 7, No. 3, October, 1999.
“Intellectual Property Protection in the World Trade Organization: Major Issues in the Millenium Round”, Competitive Strategies for the Protection of Intellectual Property, Owen Lippert (ed.), Fraser Institute, 1999.
“The Future of the World Trading System”, The Economic Outlook for 2000, Forty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Economic Outlook, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Nov. 18-19, 1999.
“The Future of the World Trade Organization”, Brookings Trade Forum 1999, Susan M. Collins and Robert Z. Lawrence (eds.), Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1999.
“Convergence and sovereignty: policy scope for compromise?”, Coping with Globalization, Aseem Prakash and Jeffrey A. Hart (eds.), Routledge, New York, NY, 2000.
“Regional versus Multilateral Trade Strategies”, ISUMA: Canadian Journal of Policy Research, vol. 1,
no. 1, Alfred LeBlanc (ed.), University of Montreal Press, 2000.
“Making Sense of It All: A Post-Mortem on the Meaning of Seattle”, Seattle, the WTO, and the Future of the Multilateral Trading System, Roger B. Porter and Pierre Sauvé (eds.), Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, June 2000.
“The Uruguay Round North-South Grand Bargain: Implications for Future Negotiations”, The Political Economy of International Trade Law, University of Minnesota, September 2000.
“Regional Dominos and the WTO: Building Blocks or Boomerang?”, Building a Partnership, The Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement, Mordechai Kreinin (ed.), Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, University of Calgary Press, Calgary, 2000
“The Changing Scenario in International Governance”, Governance in the 21st Century, David M. Hayne, FRSC, (ed.), University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo, London, 2000
“Looking Back to Look Forward: The Multilateral Trading System after 50 Years”, From GATT To The WTO: The Multilateral Trading System In The New Millennium, The WTO Secretariat, World Trade Organization, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, London, Boston, 2000
“The WTO: Post Seattle and Chinese Accession”, China and the Long March to Global Trade: The Accession of China to the World Trade Organization, Sylvia Ostry, Alan Alexandroff and Rafael Gomez, (eds.), Routledge, London and New York, 2001 (Forthcoming).
“The WTO and International Governance”, The World Trade Organization Millennium Round, Klaus Gunter Deutsh and Bernhard Speyer, (eds.), Routledge, London, USA and Canada, 2001.
“The WTO After Seattle: Something’s happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear”, American Economic Association, New Orleans, January 2001
“WTO Membership for China: To be & Not to be. Is that the Answer?”, Conference on China & the World Trade Organization, Australian National University, March 2001 (forthcoming).
“The Question of the Q’s: What Cue Should Quebec Send to Qatar?”, Regional Trade Dialogue, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington D.C., May 2001.
“Dissent.com: How NGO’s are Re-making the WTO”, Policy Options, Montreal, June 2001.
“WTO: Institutional Design for Better Governance”, Efficiency, Equity and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium, Roger B. Porter, Pierre Sauvé, Arvind Subramanian, and Americo Beviglia Zampetti (eds), Center for Business and Government, Harvard University, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 2001.
“The Multilateral Trading System”, The Oxford Handbook of International Business, Alan M. Rugman and Thomas L. Brewer (eds), Oxford University Press, 2001.
“The Future of the World Trade System”, Symposium 50th Anniversary of the Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, Berlin, October 2001 (forthcoming).
“Why Has Globalization Become a Bad Word?”, Alcoa-Intalco Works Distinguished Lecture, Washington Western University, Bellingham, October 2001 (forthcoming).
“WTO Membership for China: To Be and Not to Be: Is that the Answer?”, The State of Economics in Canada, Festschrift in Honour of David Slater, Patrick Grady and Andrew Sharpe, (eds), John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal and Kingston, London, Ithaca, 2001.
“Fix It or Nix It? Will the NAFTA Model Survive?”, Linking Trade, Environment and Social Cohesion, John J. Kirton and Virginia W. Maclaren (eds), University of Toronto, Ashgate Publishing Lmited, Hampshire, UK, 2002.
Globalization and the G8: Could Kananaskis Set a New Direction” O.D. Skelton Memorial Lecture, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, March 2002.
Doha and After, From Doha to Kananaskis Conference, York University and University of Toronto, March 2002.
External Transparency: The Policy Process at the National Level of the Two Level Game, WTO Advisory Group, April 2002 (forthcoming).
The World Trading System: In Dire Need of Reform, Canadians in Europe Conferences, April 2002.
What are the Necessary Ingredients for the World Trading Order?, The Kiel Institute of World Economics, Kiel, June 2002.
Daniel Drache and Sylvia Ostry, “From Doha to Kananaskis: The Future of the World Trading System and the Crisis of Governance”, Trade Policy Research 2002, John M. Curtis and Dan Ciuriak (eds), Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Minister of Public Works and Government Services, Canada, 2002.
“Perspectives on the Evolution of the Global Trading System”, Money, Markets, and Mobility: Celebrating the Ideas of Robert A. Mundell, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, Thomas J. Courchene (ed), John Deutch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Queen’s University, Institute for Research on Public Policy, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal and Kingston, London, Ithaca, 2002.
“The Uruguay Round North-South Grand Bargain: Implications for future negotiations”, The Political Economy of International Trade Law, Essays in Honor of Robert E. Hudec, Daniel M. Kennedy and James D. Southwick (eds), Cambridge University Press, U.K., 2002.
China and the Long March to Global Trade: The Accession of China into the WTO, Alan S. Alexandroff, Sylvia Ostry and Rafael Gomez (eds), Routledge Curzon, UK, 2002. (forthcoming September)
“WTO Membership for China: To Be and Not to Be: Is that the Answer?”, China and the World Trading System: Entering the New Millenium, Deborah Z. Cass, Brett Gerard Williams and George Barker (eds), Cambridge University Press, U.K.. (forthcoming)
“Global Integration: Currents and Counter Currents”, The Kluwer Companion to the WTO Organization,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Massachusetts. (forthcoming)
“Trade Negotiations and Civil Society, The Trade Policy-Making Process at the National Level”, Fourth Meeting of the Integration and Trade Network, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C., September 17-18, 2002.

Governance

Dr. Sylvia OSTRY

Governance