The Global Development Policy Center and the G-24 will be hosting jointly a Webinar on “Collective Action Clauses in Motion: Lessons and Challenges for Covid-19 Era Sovereign Debt Restructurings” on Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm EST. To register, click here: bit.ly/3iGX2gx
Dr. Susan Holcombe joined the Global Development Policy Center this week to discuss the subject of her latest co-edited volume, Practicing Development: Upending Assumptions for Positive Change. Dr. Holcombe, a Professor Emerita of the Practice at Brandeis University, said she was inspired to work on the book after realizing that narratives from the global north dominated […]
On Thursday, November 7th, the GDP Center held a book launch for Sonia E. Rolland and David Trubek’s new book, Emerging Powers in the International Economic Order. The book launch consisted of an introduction of the book by Rolland, followed by commentary from Northeastern Professor, Dan Danielsen, and a video call from Richard Kozul-Wright, Director […]
Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) established a working group of global scholars to identify the state of the current research, existing gaps in the data, and establishing a policy-oriented research agenda on trade treaties and access to medicines. The working group’s NEW report Rethinking Trade Treaties and Access to Medicines: Toward a Policy-Oriented Research Agenda synthesizes the state of […]
Gregory T. Chin, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, presented as part of the GDP Center’s Global China Research Colloquium on Monday, November 4th to a crowd of BU faculty, students, and staff. In his presentation, titled “The AIIB: Early Development, Innovations and Future Priorities,” Chin explained the reasoning for the […]
Yunnan Chen, a PhD Candidate at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, presented as part of the Global Policy Development Center’s GCI Research Colloquium. Her talk, titled “Railpolitik: Drivers and Challenges of Chinese Financed African Railways,” provided a case study concerning the construction of the first electrified railroad in Ethiopia. Chen presents a […]
The Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a lecture on Friday, October 18, 2019 with the President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Jin Liqun on multilateral approaches to development. For photos and more information about the talk, click here. Watch the live stream recording below:
The Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) at the Global Development Policy Center and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently co-hosted a three-day workshop and seminar series exploring the environmental science, policy, and land use impacts of remote sensing in tropical forests. The series, convened by Pardee Center Faculty Associate and LULI Associate Director Professor Julie […]
The Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted our second annual Washington, D.C. panel discussion featuring thought leaders of international economics and development, who discussed the current crisis of multilateralism and offered alternatives for a better future. The discussion, co-hosted by the GDP Center and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, featured María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the […]
The recently established United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have put global health at the center of the global development agenda. While there have been decades of discussion on the trade regime and access to medicines, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) bring a renewed sense of importance and urgency to the debate. SDG goal number […]