Author: lattrell

Greening Development Lending in the Americas: Trends and Determinants

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) faces a $110 billion annual gap in financing for climate change. Development finance institutions (DFIs) have a unique role to play in closing this financing gap through correcting key market and government failures and by crowding in private sector economic activity. DFIs have also been asked to play an […]

New GDP Center Research & Interactive Data on Development Banks in Latin America

GDP Center Researchers Fei Yuan & Kevin P. Gallagher recently published an article on development banks and climate financing in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in Ecological Economics with a correlating interactive database. Access the free article here until Saturday, November 17, 2018.   Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) faces a $110 billion-dollar annual gap […]

HCI Hosts 3rd Annual Population Health Science Research Workshop

On October 11-12, 2018, the BU GDP Center’s Human Capital Initiative (HCI) co-hosted the Population Health Science Research Workshop (PHS) with BU’s School of Public Health. Prof. Jacob Bor, HCI core faculty, convened the workshop with School of Public Health Dean Sandro Galea. Economists, epidemiologists, and social scientists from schools across the country presented work-in-progress […]

Klinger Interviewed by CNBC on China’s Supply of Neodymium

Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Associate Director of the Land Use & Livelihoods Initiative at the GDP Center, was interviewed for a recent article on China’s supply of neodymium — a rare metal used in technology such as headphones, cellphones and cars. Klinger was quoted in an October […]

LULI Hosts La Batea Book Discussion at the GDP Center

The Land Use & Livelihoods Initiative hosted a book discussion at the Global Development Policy Center on Thursday, October 18 with the authors of La Batea. La Batea is the fruit of a six-year collaboration between photographer Stephen Ferry and his sister, anthropologist Elizabeth Emma Ferry. Their book documents the struggles of gold mining communities […]

GDP Center Co-Hosts AMRO Workshop on Regional Surveillance

Many thanks to the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office for co-hosting fascinating @GDPC_BU workshop on regional surveillance, and to @Japanfoundation Center for Global Partnership for its financial support! @BUPardeeSchool pic.twitter.com/UuJwuKTfmq — William Grimes (@WilliamWGrimes) October 4, 2018 The workshop, entitled “Scaling Up and Leveraging Regional Surveillance”, was sponsored by Boston University’s Global Development Policy (GDP) Center, the […]

LULI Associate Director receives NSF grant for research on the politics of urban and suburban wildlife management

Anne Short Gianotti, Associate Director of the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) at the GDP Center and Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University, has been awarded $375,000 for the project “Deer in the Suburbs: A Comparative Study of the Mobilization and Mutation of Wildlife Management Strategies.” Along with collaborator John […]