After years of policy debate and advocacy, the World Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) have developed a series of policies commonly referred to as ‘Environmental and Social Safeguards’ (ESS) aimed at preventing and mitigating social and environmental harm related to loan projects. In response to global climate change and inequality, the World Bank […]
China began investing in overseas power projects in 2003, with investments accelerating in the years since. After a steady growth period from 2003-2013, the past four years have witnessed a substantial increase in the volume of Chinese investment. In a new working paper, Kevin P. Gallagher, Zhongsu Li and Denise Mauzerall provide the first estimates of […]
In just over a decade Chinese policy banks have emerged as global leaders in development finance in general and in finance for energy projects in developing country governments in particular. According to the China’s Global Energy Finance Database, between 2000 and 2017, the China Development Bank (CDB) and China Export-Import Bank (CHEXIM) provided $225.75 billion in […]
Mahesh Karra, Associate Director of the Global Development Policy Center’s Human Capital Initiative (HCI) and Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has been announced as a Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing 2018 Junior Faculty Fellow. The Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellows program was established […]
GDP Center Post-doctoral Fellow Rebecca Ray presented this week (September 24-27, 2018) at the 28th annual Coloquio Mexicano de Economía Matemática y Econometría (Mexican Colloquium on Mathematical Economics and Econometrics) hosted by the International Economics department of the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua in Hidalgo de Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico. She gave a plenary lecture, entitled “China […]
Change in land-use—the purposes and activities through which people interact with land and terrestrial ecosystems— is a key process of global environmental change. Understanding the dynamics of land-use change is central for designing strategies to address sustainability challenges and human-altered environments around the world. However, the theories about land-use changes are disconnected from each other; […]
Thank you to all who braved the rain for our inaugural open house event at Boston University, yesterday evening, on September 25, 2018. Our featured speaker Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies Dean Adil Najam presented as the lead author on the latest Pakistan National Human Development Report (NHDR) on Youth. Kevin Gallagher, Director of […]
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Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Latin American Geography entitled “New Geographies of China-Latin America Relations.“ The collection includes eleven articles that presents the latest findings from ethnographic and transnational research, with contributions from throughout the Americas. Klinger […]
Bangladesh is about to embark on a major transformation of its energy system. To meet the growing energy demand, the government plans to increase coal-fired power generation from 2 percent to 50 percent of the country’s total mix by 2041. Looking towards a development future with increased coal, what will be the socioeconomic, environmental and […]