Video Mini Explainer: The Global Problem of Statelessness
Amid a refugee crisis, director of BU Center on Forced Displacement argues for a new approach to helping people not recognized by any country.
The World Is Going Bust: What Is the Sovereign Debt Crisis and Can We Solve It?
BU’s Global Development Policy Center has released a plan to save nations from what a UN secretary-general has called one of “the biggest threats to global peace”.
America the Miserly: How Our Refugee System Fails Desperate People
With thousands fleeing Ukraine and millions still displaced by the Syrian civil war, a BU sociologist’s new book faults the United States, Canada, and Germany for letting down refugees.
Director Kevin P. Gallagher Appointed to the Committee for Development Policy at the United Nations
Kevin P. Gallagher, Director of the Global Development Policy Center and Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has been appointed as a member of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at the United Nations. The CDP […]
GDP Center Hosts Panel Discussion in Washington, DC
Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm 1777 F Street NW, 1st Floor, Washington, DC 20006 President Robert A. Brown and Provost Jean Morrison hosted a panel discussion organized by the BU Global Development Policy Center and BU Federal Relations in Washington, D.C. on April 18. Center Director Kevin Gallagher moderated a conversation with […]
Former UN Secretary-General Kicks Off BU Think Tank
Ban Ki-moon encourages students to think globally Ban Ki-moon, eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations, gave the keynote speech kicking off the opening of BU’s new Global Development Policy Center. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Former secretary-general of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon told a standing-room only crowd at BU’s Metcalf Trustee Center on Wednesday that […]
BU Alumni Association Events in October 2015
The BU Alumni Association held two Washington events in October: A Conversation with Peace Corps Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet (CAS ’79) on October 26 and a discussion of Mobile Money and Migrant Remittances on October 29.