The world is in urgent need of infrastructure investment, particularly in emerging markets and developing countries (EMDCs). Multilateral development banks (MDBs) have a key role to play in maintaining a socially and environmentally sustainable development trajectory, as they have the financial capacity, technical skills and international standing to undertake quality infrastructure investments. However, the “legacy” […]
The GDP Center is grateful to announce that its’ Global China Initiative has received a new grant Carnegie Corporation of New York. This generous grant will allow GCI to expand its research, policy dialogues, and fellowship program on China and international economic institutions. Kevin Gallagher, Director of the GDP Center and Principal Investigator on the grant, notes […]
The US dollar continues to dominate the international monetary and financial system, but it plays an outsized role that puzzles many scholars. In fact, the US share of both world gross domestic product (GDP) and global trade has declined post-war. However, some recent work on the dollar has looked beyond the US economy to the […]
The Federal Reserve’s decision to offer ultimately open-ended swap lines to other central banks in the wake of disturbances to the global financial system in 2007 has attracted considerable academic attention and some political controversy. While empirical research has generally found that the post-2008 swaps were effective in providing dollar liquidity, some members of the […]
The GDP Center and UNCTAD welcome you to join us for a webinar on the economic response to the COVID-19 crisis. The panel features the following guests: Nelson Barbosa, Former Finance Minister of Brazil Stephanie Blankenburg, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, UNAIDS Haihong Gao, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute for World […]
To complete the survey, please click here. In light of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, researchers at Harvard University and Boston University have developed a short web-based survey to gather information on coronavirus disease and social distancing behaviors from the general US adult population. The results from this survey aim to produce timely, rapid results that […]
We are thrilled to announce that three new Research Fellows have joined our team! Xia Li, Nashira Chavez, and Pedro Henrique Barbosa will be working on the GDP Center’s Global China Initiative. Xia is a Ph.D. candidate in the Strategy & Innovation Department at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University, and a research fellow […]
The GDP Center Summer in the Field program is taking applications until February 24, 2020. Please submit your applications as soon as possible to be considered for interviews. The GDP Center summer in the field program provides summer stipends to a select group of qualified Masters and/or Ph.D. students to participate in unpaid internships or Ph.D. students […]
As part of the new Program on Women’s Empowerment Research (POWER) at the GDP Center, we are thrilled to report that the HCI team working on this program recently received a three-year grant for $500,000 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to support a range of projects under this program. The goal of POWER is to […]
Since 2009, China has been Africa’s largest trading partner for ten consecutive years. Today, the continent is also China’s second largest market for overseas project contracting and fourth largest outward investment destination. China’s expansion in Africa also fits into Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s development framework, the Belt and Road Initiative. China’s political and economic engagement […]