As part of their research, members of the IPEA Study Centre are often called upon to write articles in collaboration with local partners, in order to share knowledge and promote various paths to economic autonomy.
The local economy: it pays to be informed
Air Inuit Magazine, Fall 2023.
By Adel Yassa, Hatouma Sako and Émilie Fortin-Lefebvre
The local economy seems to be an abstract concept. However, a good understanding of this issue and its impacts can affect you on a daily basis, both personally and as a community.
What about local economy in your village?
Air Inuit Magazine, Spring 2023.
By Adel Yassa, Hatouma Sako, Émilie Fortin-Lefebvre, Catherine Boily and François Gélinas
Do you know what are the sums of activities generating income in your village; what keeps your village running? Because local economy is everyone’s business.
Growing Nunavik’s 14 local economies
Air Inuit Magazine, Fall 2022.
By Adel Yassa, Hatouma Sako, Émilie Fortin-Lefebvre, Catherine Boily and François Gélinas
Growing Nunavik’s 14 Local Economies : This is the title of the partnership project initiated in 2019 by the Study Centre for Indigenous People’s Economic Autonomy (IPEA) of ESG-UQAM and the Kativik Regional Government KRG).
Indigenous entrepreneurship: collaboration above all else
Les Affaires, March 16ᵗʰ, 2021.
By l’ESG-UQAM
At a time when Quebec’s Indigenous populations are still suffering the effects of colonization and systemic racism, Émilie Fortin-Lefebvre – a researcher at ESG UQAM – is developing mechanisms to facilitate aboriginal entrepreneurship.