Graduating Into a Global Economy

On June 8, 2001, the University of Western Ontario awarded Ron Wonnacott an honorary doctorate, recognizing his pathbreaking work on international trade and his many other scholarly contributions over a distinguished career. His speech provided comments on trade agreements and an analysis of the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) that we believe will be of interest to a wide audience. We are therefore very pleased, and honoured, to present "Graduating Into a Global Economy" as the first working paper of the RBC Financial Group Economic Policy Research Institute.