It is no surprise that calls to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) resonated with so many Americans. Numerous studies have documented the negative effects of NAFTA on certain groups, regions and the environment in the US, Mexico and Canada. However, the resulting United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) will not restore innovation, industrial jobs, […]
In 1995, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) introduced mandatory pharmaceutical patenting to the developing world for the first time. Alongside the regulatory challenges that this produced, TRIPS explicitly permitted some flexibilities enabling countries to protect intellectual property in diverse ways. Subsequently, modern bilateral and regional free trade agreements contain additional […]
Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and Associate Director of the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative at the GDP Center, was interviewed for a recent article on whether China can prevent the export of rare earth elements to the United States. Klinger was interviewed […]
Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Associate Director of the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative at the GDP Center at Boston University, was quoted in a recent article on whether China’s near-monopoly of rare earth elements gives it leverage over the United States. Klinger was interviewed […]
Kevin P. Gallagher, Director of the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, recently traveled to Tokyo and Beijing for a series of meetings and workshops on international finance and development. Gallagher participated in preparatory meetings in Tokyo from May 26-27, 2019 for the G20, […]
Recent literature has emerged highlighting the importance of development banks for capitalist diversity in rich and developing countries alike. This literature merges the structuralist tradition in development studies and the political economy of development to look for analytical leverage outside the realm of conventional public financial institutions and a long-overlooked twin role of the banker […]
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, published a recent journal article in the International Journal of Epidemiology. Karra’s article, entitled “Early-Life Exposure to Ambient Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: […]
Each year, over 2.5 million children die within the first 28 days of birth, with three out of four of these neonatal deaths occurring in Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, many low- and middle-income countries are becoming increasingly exposed to adverse environmental stresses such as ambient fine particulate air pollution, which […]
By Julie Michelle Klinger LULI Working Paper, February 2019
In recent decades, the world’s largest development bank by total assets, the China Development Bank (CDB), has gained international reputation for lending massively to infrastructure projects inside and outside China. Although seemingly a typical story of state-led development, where the state channels preferential capital to selected projects, CDB, in fact, raises most of its funds […]