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, recently published the article “Transparency and sustainability in the global commodity supply chains” in the multidisciplinary journal World Development. Text from the article: Despite an explosion of […]
Mahesh Karra, Associate Director of the GDP Center Human Capital Initiative (HCI) and Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently published a study in the multidisciplinary open access journal PLOS One. The study, entitled “Causal Language and Strength of Inference in Academic and Media Articles Shared […]
William Kring, Assistant Director of the GDP Center, attended the May 17-18 2018 Joint RFA Research Seminar workshop held in Cartagena, Colombia with featured speaker, Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) core faculty member, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University William Grimes. The Research Seminar was held […]
Surveys that aim to measure the prevalence of women’s work across societies yield varying results. For example, in Ghana, surveys conducted by different groups estimate that anywhere from 59 percent to 85 percent of urban women are employed, but there is no consensus on the actual number. This variation can arise for many reasons, including […]
Meeting the ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement will require the United States and other major greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters to integrate climate change considerations into all relevant areas of economic policy. The United States, however, has conspicuously failed to do so with regard to international trade negotiations. International trade agreements tend to increase GHG […]
In 2018, Samuel Bazzi, a core faculty member of the Human Capital Initiative and Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University, was selected to be a Faculty Research Fellow of the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His first working paper with NBER titled “The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions” investigates the implications of […]
Mahesh Karra, Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative and Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently published a study in the journal Work, Employment and Society entitled “Reframing the Measurement of Women’s Work in the Sub-Saharan African Context.” The study was co-authored by Jocelyn […]
GDPC Director Kevin Gallagher published an Op-Ed in the Hill on May 17, 2018 titled “BUILD Act must build in US values for global development projects.” Gallagher comments on the lack of accountability and transparency in new legislation to create a development bank in the U.S. From the text of the Op-Ed: In a welcome move, the U.S. is now looking to […]
Outlooks to outcomes: Interdisciplinary approaches to land-based livelihoods and land use change. On May 4, 2018, the GDP Center hosted the inaugural Land Use & Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) workshop inviting 19 leading scholars and practitioners to engage in a series of productive discussions surrounding land-based livelihoods and land use change. Experts shared insights from research […]
To meet the targets of the Paris Agreement, the future of global economic policy must be inextricably linked to progressive considerations of climate change. A newly published article by Matthew C. Porterfield, Kevin P. Gallagher (BU GDPC Director) & Judith Claire Schachter establishes a strong causality between trade policy and climate change particularly in the United […]