The recently established United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have put global health at the center of the global development agenda. While there have been decades of discussion on the trade regime and access to medicines, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) bring a renewed sense of importance and urgency to the debate. SDG goal number […]
Kevin Gallagher, Director of the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, spoke as part of a March 12, 2019 panel organized by the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at the United Nations. Gallagher was joined […]
By Perry Mehrling. Institute for New Economic Thinking, March 13 2019.
The Global Development Policy Center partnered with the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership on March 1st 2019 to host a workshop entitled “Leading by Design: Lessons from CMIM-AMRO for the Global Financial Safety Net.” The workshop included a variety of topics related to global financial safety, including Regional Financial Arrangements (RFAs), monetary and fiscal policy challenges, […]
On March 1st, 2019, Dean Naoyuki Yoshino of the Asian Development Bank Institute visited the Global Development Policy Center to present on monetary and fiscal policy challenges in Japan. The public lecture, which took place at the Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies, built on the discussions from our February 28th T20 workshop and […]
On February 28, 2019, the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a T20 workshop entitled ‘Toward G-20 Principles for International Monetary Fund (IMF) Reform.’ The T-20 is an official group of parallel global ‘think tanks’ to the G20 process. Japan hosts the 2019 G20 Summit and has formed a T20 Task Force on the International Financial Architecture […]
Kevin P. Gallagher quoted in article entitled “Is China scaling back Latin America loans?” Dialogo Chino, February 26 2019.
The Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA) and Center for the Study of Europe, affiliated regional centers at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted a February 21, 2019 symposium entitled “By Land and By Sea: China’s Belt and Road in Europe.” Several Pardee School professors spoke at the symposium, which focused […]
Mahesh Karra, Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center, recently gave two talks on “The Causal Effect of Improved Access to Family Planning: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Urban Malawi.” Karra spoke as part of the Boston University Undergraduate Economic Association Lecture Series on February 13, 2019 and at the Centre […]
Julie Klinger, co-director of the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center, was recently awarded a travel grant from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies China-Africa Research Initiative to conduct research on China-Africa space cooperation in South Africa, Tunisia and Algeria. According to Klinger, while China’s investments in African countries have […]