Last week, BU students Sarah Safi, Avantika Tandon, and Prachi Aneja gave a presentation at UROP on the Jaunpur Social Networks Study (JSNS). With the help of faculty supervisor Mahesh Karra, the students created posters of their findings and provided short presentations on their research methods, data collection, and analysis. The project, titled “Networks and Global […]
Dr. Enga Kameni, Legal Services Manager at the African Import-Export Bank, gave a presentation at the GDP Center today on Africa’s Engagement with China. The talk, entitled “Africa’s Engagement with China: a Legal and Developmental Perspective,” gave an overview of the deepening relations between China and African nations. He argued that in order for Africa to […]
Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published a recent article on the need for global cooperation on rare earth elements. Klinger’s article, entitled “Global Cooperation Needed on Rare Earth Elements,” was published in East Asia Forum on September 26, 2019. From the text of the article: […]
In the latest installment of our GCI Research Colloquium, Yao Liu of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences spoke about global imbalance adjustments. Her talk, entitled “Global Imbalance Adjustment: Stylized Facts, Underlying Causes, and Ideal,” looked at the driving forces and stylized facts behind global imbalance adjustment and makes recommendations for the ideal path for […]
This morning, Thomas Gautier kicked off our 2019 HCI Speaker Series with a talk entitled “The Long-Run Impact of Losing Siblings During a Genocide.” In his research, Gautier explores the long-term impacts of violent conflict on human capital. He is particularly concerned with the effect of losing siblings during a genocide on long-term health and […]
Since the turn of the 21st century, South America’s Western Andean nations have adopted some of the world’s most ambitious environmental and social protections surrounding infrastructure investment, including most notably the right to prior consultation for affected Indigenous communities. These reforms have been matched by the adoption of equally ambitious environmental and social safeguards (ESS) […]
On episode 15, Erik Myxter-iino talks with Postdoctoral Fellow at the Global Development and Policy Center at Boston University Dr. Rebecca Ray. Rebecca is a co-author of a new report published in part by BU’s GDP center: China and the Amazon: Toward a Framework for Maximizing Benefits and Mitigating Risks of Infrastructure Development. In this episode, […]
Rebecca Ray and Xinyue Ma. Belt and Road Podcast, August 6th 2019.
Over the past two years, US officials have sought to highlight China’s negative effects on the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region’s development and stability, whether to US or Latin American audiences. For Latin Americans, though, relations with China aren’t so black and white. China may be an imperfect partner for LAC, as many in […]
Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Associate Director of the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative at the GDP Center at Boston University, recently toured Nigeria’s Space Research and Development Agency including its Centre for Space Transport and Propulsion. In 2005, Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved a […]