Why do major development projects get delayed while others progress? Where do projects encounter opposition? While the literature on development financing is substantive, scholars continue to treat project completion or cancellation as a byproduct of weak institutions, lack of technical capacity or the financing institution’s decision to withdraw. However, when delays are insignificant or already […]
The past two decades have witnessed China’s rise as the world’s leading provider of official development finance (ODF) for energy. However, the overwhelming majority of the Chinese ODF has flown to fossil fuels projects, with solar and wind power representing 2.6 percent the total for electric power worldwide and 1.1 percent of the total for […]
Prudential Financial Regulators, Central Banks and Regulatory Authorities have increasingly come to recognize that they have a role to play in dealing with climate change, including climate disasters such as storms, tornadoes and tsunamis. Such events impact the economy by destroying physical assets, income opportunities, credit worthiness and the fiscal base. In turn, the financial […]
Boston University’s (BU) Department of Earth and Environment is seeking an incoming Ph.D. student for a research project on the implications of Chinese foreign investment for global biodiversity, land-use change, and indigenous people. The position offers the unique opportunity to work with a novel, spatially integrated database of Chinese overseas investment developed at BU’s Global […]
Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center is seeking a post-doctoral fellow for a research project on the implications of Chinese foreign investment on global biodiversity, land-use change, and indigenous people. The position offers the unique opportunity to work with a novel, integrated database of Chinese overseas investment in order to examine the implications of such […]
The Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center is a university-wide research center in partnership with the Frederick S. Pardee School for Global Studies and the Office of Research at Boston University. In its second year of operation, the GDP Center is proud to present the 2019 Annual Report. The report provides an overview of […]
GDP Center Faculty Affiliate Joseph Harris recently published an article in Sociological Forum about how the politics of agenda setting and policy adoption operate in the arena of healthcare reform in the industrializing world. The paper, entitled “The Politics of Expanding Healthcare Access to the Poor and Informal Sectors,” examines the politics of policy adoption in countries that […]
On December 12, 2012, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution urging governments to ensure population access to quality healthcare. While the path countries have taken to financing universal access to healthcare has varied, a particularly important aspect of reform has been government efforts to make access to healthcare available to the poor, including […]
In our third HCI seminar of the semester, PhD Candidate Fatima Aqeel discussed how investments in education can impact marriage market outcomes in Pakistan. In her talk, entitled “Educational Investments and Marriage Market Outcomes: Evidence from Pakistan,” Aqeel notes that prior to 1992, women faced two serious barriers of entry to the field of medicine: a 20% […]
The Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a lecture on Friday, October 18, 2019 with the President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Jin Liqun on multilateral approaches to development. President Jin Liqun is a Chinese politician, banker, and professor who formerly served as the Chairman of China International Capital Corporation, the Vice President of the Asian Development Bank, and […]