Author: lattrell

Beyond the Article: Exploring China’s Trillion Dollar Renewable Energy Opportunity

GDP Center Researchers Miquel Muñoz Cabré, Kevin P. Gallagher, and Zhongshu Li recently published an article on renewable energy and opportunities for Chinese overseas investment in China & World Economy (CWE)  with a new correlating interactive database. According to the authors, there are three reasons that China is uniquely poised to lead renewable energy global investments:   China’s […]

Gallagher Publishes Op-Ed FT on China’s Climate Leadership

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, published a recent Op-Ed on China’s emerging leadership on energy and climate change. Gallagher’s Op-Ed, entitled “China Must Calibrate Overseas Lending Towards Paris Climate Goals,” was published in Financial Times on December 10, 2018.  From the […]

GDP Center Launches New Global China Initiative with over $1 Million in Support

With China poised to invest $1-4 trillion in massive infrastructure and energy projects across the globe over the next decade, policy-oriented research and monitoring is necessary to maximize the potential as well as mitigate the risks of the largest level of public investment since the post-World War II Marshall Plan. The Boston University Global Development […]

Klinger Named VP of Board of Eco-Fashion Enterprise Jhoole

Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and Associate Director of the Land Use & Livelihoods Initiative (LULI), was elected as Vice President of the Board for Jhoole, a fair-trade eco-fashion enterprise that works with women weavers and artisans in Maheshwar, India. The Sarees from this […]

Ethnolinguistic Concordance and the Provision of Postpartum IUD Counseling Services in Sri Lanka

Poor communication and a lack of mutual trust have long been cited as contributors to a weak patient-physician relationship and may contribute to the provision of ineffective medical care. In particular, interpersonal barriers resulting from linguistic, racial, ethnic or cultural differences between patients and providers may exacerbate disparities in utilization, care-seeking behavior and health experienced […]

Corporate Green Bonds

A recent development in corporate finance is the use of corporate green bonds, whose proceeds are committed to finance environmental and climate-friendly projects, such as renewable energy, green buildings or resource conservation. Despite being one of the latest innovations in contemporary finance, corporate green bonds are already exceedingly popular, with the corporate sector doubling their […]

Dependent Development and Its Limits: Romanian Capitalism after the Great Recession

While European Union (EU) membership offers more opportunities for convergence and limited economic volatility relative to the 1990s, it did not drastically weaken the causal generators of the developmental divide between Eastern and Western Europe. While most countries in the EU’s eastern part have followed a path of liberalism and hyper-integrationism, frustration with the effects […]

Development Finance Roadmap for G20 Summit 2018

All eyes turn to Argentina, the host of this year’s G20 Summit, as leaders from the 19 biggest economies around the world and the European Union prepare to meet on Thursday and Friday. Cumulatively, these nations account for 85% of the world GDP and ⅔ of the world population. This comes in succession of the […]

Ecological and Economic Benefits of Integrating Sheep into Viticulture Production

Balancing the production of agricultural goods, species conservation, and environmental integrity has become a critical concern for the twenty-first century. One potential option to preserve and improve the ecological intensification of agricultural systems is the integration of cropland with livestock grazing to achieve integrated crop and livestock systems. A journal article in Agronomy for Sustainable […]