Global Development http://www.bu.edu/gdp Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:04:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr. http://www.bu.edu/gdp/2011/09/14/paulo-nogueira-batista-jr/ http://www.bu.edu/gdp/2011/09/14/paulo-nogueira-batista-jr/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:19:06 +0000 Michael Williams http://www.bu.edu/gdp/?p=755 Well-known Brazilian economist Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr. gave a talk at BU titled: “The IMF, Capital Controls, and Developing Countries.”  Batista has been the Executive Director representing Brazil and a group of eight countries in the region at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since April 2007.

Batista spoke on Friday, September 16.  More information on his talk can be found here.

 

 

]]> http://www.bu.edu/gdp/2011/09/14/paulo-nogueira-batista-jr/feed/ 0 Development That Works Conference http://www.bu.edu/gdp/2011/03/23/development-that-works-conference/ http://www.bu.edu/gdp/2011/03/23/development-that-works-conference/#comments Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:50:48 +0000 Michael Williams http://www.bu.edu/gdp/?p=738 Boston University will convene an all-day conference titled “Development That Works” on Thursday, March 31, 2011 which will bring together leading scholars and practitioners to discuss development ideas that have been demonstrated to be or have the potential to lead to sustainable and effective development.

The conference will be held at the 4th floor conference space at the BU School of Management (Hariri Building, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston University).

The conference is free and open to public, but RSVP is required. RSVP to the conference at pardee@bu.edu.

]]> http://www.bu.edu/gdp/2011/03/23/development-that-works-conference/feed/ 0 BU Global Development First Graduating Class http://www.bu.edu/gdp/2011/01/13/bu-global-development-first-graduating-class/ http://www.bu.edu/gdp/2011/01/13/bu-global-development-first-graduating-class/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:07:16 +0000 Michael Williams http://www.bu.edu/gdp/?p=721 We are proud to announce the graduation of our first class from BU Global Development!  Congratulations to all of our 2011 graduates.

The first BU Global Development Graduating Class

2011 Global Development Capstone Projects

Project Group A:  Ghana’s Rural Finance System and Climate Regime

Project Group B:  What is ‘Ail-ing’ the Agricultural Microfinance Model?

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