By Bridgette Lang The Spring 2022 Global China Research Colloquium invited leading scholars to virtually present their latest research on topics spanning China’s application of industrial policy, debt-for-nature swaps with Ecuador, simulating the impacts of China’s clean energy transition abroad and mapping the marine risks of Chinese overseas development finance. Zhu Xian started the year […]
By Ying Qian The COVID-19 pandemic has levied a brutal force on many emerging and low-income countries: not only their public health systems, but their economies have also suffered from severe contractions, which derailed revenue generation and budget execution. The onslaught of the pandemic has exacerbated the triple crisis of public health, rising poverty and […]
The economic shock from the COVID-19 pandemic has set back the development agendas for emerging markets and developing countries. Many developing countries have suffered from severe economic contractions that derailed revenue generation and budget execution and created urgent financing needs. Servicing public debt crowds out fiscal space for investing in a green and equitable recovery […]
By Jyhjong Hwang On Thursday, April 28, the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a webinar discussion and demonstration of the Chinese Loans to Africa (CLA) Database. The webinar followed the launch of new data and an updated website experience earlier that week. During the webinar, Oyintarelado (Tarela) Moses discussed the main findings […]
Despite its carbon neutrality commitments and the prospect of increasingly stringent climate policy measures, China is continuing to build new coal-fired power plants domestically. Amid a changing energy market, what is the expected economic performance of these investments after they are completed? In a new journal article published in Climate Policy, Alex Clark, Philippe Benoit and […]
By Oyintarelado (Tarela) Moses and Jyhjong Hwang The 2022 update to the Chinese Loans to Africa (CLA) Database, managed by the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center, recorded 11 new loan commitments worth $1.9 billion from Chinese lenders to African government borrowers in 2020. This low amount, not seen since the mid-2000s, is down […]
By Cecilia Han Springer On Wednesday, March 16, Ian Kieffer, Global China Fellow with the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and Ian Sue Wing, Professor with the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University, joined the Global China Research Colloquium to present initial results from their study on the potential impacts of […]
By Zara C. Albright In 2021, for the second year in a row, China and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) agreed to no new official financing commitments from the China Development Bank (CDB) or the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM). Rather, the China-Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Bulletin, 2022 edition, published by the […]
In 2021, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) continued to face challenges stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic strains. After a 7 percent contraction in 2020, the region’s GDP growth rebounded to 6.2 percent in 2021, according to a recent projection from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. This was […]
By Xia Li Facilities across the globe are facing climate change exposure or physical climate risks, such as sea-level rise, heat stress, wildfire and floods. In 2021, floods in Germany and China disrupted the global shipping industry. Heat stress caused substantial labor productivity loss in countries like Australia, while rising sea levels affected infrastructure investments […]