By Jorge Heine Six weeks after taking office, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (“Lula”) visited the United States, where he was warmly received by President Joe Biden at the White House. Biden famously was one of the very first foreign heads of state to congratulate Lula on his election last October, they know […]
By Hua-Ke (Kate) Chi On Thursday, January 26, the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a webinar discussion for the 2023 update of the China’s Overseas Development Finance (CODF) Database, a global, harmonized, validated and geolocated database recording loan commitments from two major development finance institutions (DFIs) in China, the China Development Bank […]
By Keyi Tang There are over 5,000 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the world. About 75 percent of developing economies and almost all transition economies use these geographically bound areas in which governments facilitate industrial activity through fiscal and regulatory incentives and infrastructure support in their early stages of industrialization. Why have SEZs traveled so […]
There were over 5,000 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the world, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2019. About 75 percent of developing economies and almost all transition economies use SEZs in their early stages of industrialization. While countries identify SEZs in different ways, they are defined as geographically […]
By Christina Duran Last month, countries met in Egypt for the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) to discuss progress on achieving climate goals with a focus on the Global South. The presence of one country in particular loomed large at the conference – China. While it is presently the largest carbon dioxide emitter, […]
By Justin Yifu Lin and Yan Wang The global economy is facing three overlapping crises: the climate crisis, as shown by extreme weather disasters, Russia’s war in Ukraine, which has caused energy and food prices to skyrocket, and capital flight from emerging markets and developing countries, which refers to the rapid outflow of US dollar […]
As the largest bilateral creditor of overseas development finance, Chinese development finance is under growing scrutiny for its impact on marine systems and the more than 27 million coastal Indigenous peoples around the world who rely on a healthy and functioning marine ecosystem for food and income. How risky are Chinese development finance projects to […]
By Hua-Ke (Kate) Chi While countries worldwide gauged progress towards greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets at the recent climate talks in Egypt, China continues to be the world’s top carbon dioxide emitter. Although many countries have committed to carbon neutrality, global methane emissions have increased by 10 percent in the past 20 years. Methane is […]
In order to achieve a 1.5°C warming scenario, many countries have announced their ambition to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the next few decades. However, in addition to carbon dioxide, other key GHGs such as methane will require attention in order to achieve this goal. In the past 20 years, global methane emissions […]
By 2030, global emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) must drop by 45 percent from 2010 levels to stay on a 1.5° path, while the cost of inaction could be as high as 4 percent of US growth domestic product. For the world to meet the decarbonization and climate mitigation goals set out in the Paris […]