Mahesh Karra, a core faculty member of the Human Capital Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center and an Assistant Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, attended the Population Association of America’s Annual Meeting last week in Denver, Colorado to present his research on measuring women’s labor force […]
Since the Chinese government announced the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, China has solidified its status as a leader in the international community. Through its financing of development projects, mostly through South-South cooperation, BRI has attracted considerable scrutiny. This attention comes from both developed and developing countries and focuses on how the Chinese […]
China has gradually become a global leader in outbound overseas investment in a manner that is triggering significant change in China and host countries alike. Similar to other successful paths to development, government-sponsored financial institutions have played a key role in China’s outbound investment. As a result, the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM) and China […]
Occupational segregation, defined as the tendency of men and women to work in different professions, continues to be a strong feature in labor markets around the world and has been widely found to contribute to gender wage differences. This trend highlights the importance of understanding the causes and consequences of differences in employment distributions by […]