Author: lattrell

Gallagher publishes Op-Ed about Trump’s trade policies

Kevin P. Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Director of the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University, published his second Op-Ed this week in response to United States President Donald Trump’s recent tariff and trade negotiations. Gallagher anticipates the consequences these decisions have on a global scale. The Op-Ed, entitled […]

Gallagher publishes Op-Ed about Donald Trump & learning from China’s example

Kevin P. Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Director of the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University, recently published an Op-Ed in response to United States President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs and tax hikes. Gallagher’s Op-Ed, entitled “How Trump Should Think About China,” was published in The Globalist […]

Now Accepting: Applications for Global China Initiative Fellowship Program

Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) seeks applicants for both pre-and post-doctoral fellowships to work on its Global China Initiative (GCI). In addition to receiving support for dissertation and post-dissertation work, fellows will participate in the China initiative’s research projects, seminar series, and policy engagement activities. Successful candidates will have demonstrated experience and […]

Karra Presents at 2018 Global Food+ Symposium

Mahesh Karra, Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at the GDP Center  and Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, gave a February 16, 2018 talk at the Global Food+ Symposium held at Tufts University. Karra’s talk was entitled “Long Run Effects of Early Childhood Growth […]

Grimes Speaks at Symposium on Global Financial System

William Grimes, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and GEGI core faculty member at the GDP Center, recently traveled to Guangzhou, China to participate in the “Symposium on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for China and the United States,” sponsored by the […]

GDP Center Co-Hosts 23rd NSE International Development Forum in Beijing, China

The GDP Center co-hosted the 23rd New Structural Economics (NSE) International Development Forum in Beijing, China with colleagues at the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. The forum titled “Opportunities and Risks for Renewable Energy Finance in the Belt and Road Initiative and Beyond” took place on Friday, June 1, 2018. Simultaneous interpretation […]

Sucharita Gopal presents in India on China’s foreign investment in energy

Sucharita Gopal, Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University and GDP Center Faculty Steering Committee Member, presented in Goa, India at the 12th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) in late May 2018. Gopal presented on her shared research with Global Development Policy Center Director Kevin Gallagher. Her presentation titled, “Mapping China’s Foreign Direct […]

Postdoctoral Fellow Rebecca Ray presents on international investment trends in Latin America

GDP Center Postdoctoral Fellow Rebecca Ray is in Quito this week to speak at a joint workshop held by DAR , International Senior Lawyers Project, and Flacso Ecuador. She delivered her presentation titled, “China en América Latina: Implicaciones socio-ambientales de inversión en infraestructura (China in Latin America: Social and Environmental Dimensions of Infrastructure Investment)” on June 6, 2018. She […]

Garrett publishes study to inform agricultural and climate policy

Rachael Garrett, Associate Director of the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) at the GDP Center and Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University, published an article in the open access journal Environmental Research Letters.  The study, entitled “Tradeoffs in the quest for climate smart agricultural intensification in Mato Grasso, […]