BU Today recently highlighted the experiences of our 2018 Summer in the Field Fellows, who spent the summer conducting field research related to our mission to advance policy-oriented research for financial stability, human well-being, and environmental sustainability across the globe. This is the inaugural year of our Summer in the Field Program. As a core part of our mission, we strive to provide […]
Kevin P. Gallagher, Director of the Global Development Policy Center and Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has been appointed as a member of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at the United Nations. The CDP members […]
By Gus Greenstein on August 1, 2018 Mongabay article reported on the interdisciplinary, multi-year project co-published by the GDP Center & the Center for China and Asia-Pacific Studies at Universidad del Pacífico on development finance institutions (DFIs) in the Andean Amazon. Chinese / Western financing of roads, dams led to major Andes Amazon deforestation
Kevin P. Gallagher, Director of the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University, was interviewed for a recent article on China’s economic influence in Latin America. Gallagher was quoted in a July 2018 article in The New York Times, entitled “From a Space Station in Argentina, China Expands Its Reach in Latin America.” The article is nominally about the Chinese space […]
In the past decades, China has massively financed infrastructure projects overseas, building railways, bridges, power plants and ports around the world. The enormous amount of capital outflow has drawn much attention from international investors, mass media, policymakers and academics, especially after the announcement of the Belt and Road Initiative and the establishment of the Asian […]
The international community needs to annually mobilize trillions of dollars in order to close infrastructure gaps and meet the goals and commitments of the Group of 20 (G20) and the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, (SDGs) and to date, private sector and national governments are falling far short of financing these goals. Development finance institutions […]
#LoÚltimo Video capta el momento exacto de la emergencia en otro túnel de Hidroituango pic.twitter.com/9W2Qp1Vkgv — Noticias Caracol (@NCAntioquia) May 16, 2018 Rebecca Ray, a post-doctoral scholar at the GDP Center, published an Op-Ed, entitled “Colombia megadam collapse highlights need for comprehensive standards,” in response to the collapse of the Ituango dam (Hidroituango) this summer. […]
Kevin Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy and Director of the Global Development Policy Center at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was quoted in a recent article on the economic relationship between China and Mexico. Gallagher was quoted in a July 5, 2018 article in Mexico Daily News entitled “Three Reasons Why It’s Time […]
By Kevin P. Gallagher. Published in The Conversation, July 6 2018, and in My Plainview, July 7 2018.
By Kevin P. Gallagher. Published in The Hill, May 2018.