Social assistance programs targeted at low-income groups cover nearly two billion people in developing countries. Identifying and reaching the intended beneficiaries of these programs can be challenging, especially where a large part of the population works in the informal sector and there are no official income registries. Traditionally, each program has its own method to […]
China’s two global policy banks—the China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China– are becoming the largest sources of energy finance for governments across the world. In 2016, these banks provided upwards of $43.2 billion in energy financing—close to triple the average annual energy lending of the World Bank and all the Western-backed multi-lateral […]
Rachael D. Garrett, Meredith Niles, Juliana Gil, Philip Dy, Julio Reis and Judson Valentim. Sustainability, March 2017.
The Inter-American Dialogue’s China and Latin America program and Boston University’s Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) estimate that China Development Bank and China Eximbank issued approximately $21 billion in loans to LAC governments and state-owned firms in 2016. This report highlights some of the primary features of Chinese lending over the past year. Information on the various loans issued to Latin […]
Chapter in book Beyond Neoliberalism, by Julie Klinger. February 20, 2017
Review by Julie Klinger. February 2017.
Rachael D. Garrett, Toby A. Gardner, Thiago Fonseca Morello, Sebastien Marchand, Jos Barlow, Driss Ezzine de Blas, Joice Ferreira, Alexander C. Lees and Luke Parry. Ecology and Society, January 2017. Read the paper
By Ximena Rueda, Rachael D. Garrett, Eric F. Lambin. Journal of Cleaner Production, November 2016.
By J.D.B. Gila, R. Garrett, T. Berger. Land Use Policy , October 2016.
Throughout history, soil and climate conditions have shaped migration patterns and influenced the spread of human capital and technology. Previous studies suggest that similarity in agroclimatic conditions is important for the transferability of skills. However, there is limited evidence on these relationships because skill transferability is difficult to measure, migrants sort into places where their […]