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  Webinar Summary: China’s Global Energy Finance Database – Data Update, 2000-2023

  By Thang Ha On November 14, 2024, the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a webinar on the Read more

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  A Roadmap for Unlocking the Potential of Multilateral Development Banks Exists – and the G20 Just Endorsed It

  By Tim Hirschel-Burns and Rishikesh Ram Bhandary A $4 trillion financing gap to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Read more

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  Seminar Summary – Disease, Disparities, and Development: Evidence from Chagas Disease Control in Brazil

  By Naomi Frim-Abrams On November 20, 2024, the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) hosted Jon Denton-Schneider, Assistant Professor of Economics at Read more

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  Webinar Summary – Feminism in Public Debt: A Human Rights Approach

  By Praveena Bandara On November 7, 2024, the Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) hosted Marina Zucker-Marques, Senior Academic Read more

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  Acting in Parallel on Debt and Development before It is Too Costly and Too Late

  Emerging market and developed countries must meet their shared climate and development goals to avoid the catastrophic costs of inaction. Read more

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  A One United Nations for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

  By Kamal Malhotra The United Nations (UN) is arguably the world’s most enduring and all-encompassing “global public good.” In fact, Read more

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  China’s Creditor Diversification in Africa: Impacts and Challenges of Infrastructure Debt-Financing by Chinese Commercial Creditors

  Chinese overseas lending has drawn attention for their support to developing countries in infrastructure development, as well as growing criticism Read more

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  Better Understanding the Renminbi’s Internationalization

  By Marina Zucker-Marques In the evolving landscape of international finance, the internationalization of China's currency, the renminbi, has become a Read more