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, co-wrote a recent article on working toward a global Green New Deal. The Op-Ed, entitled “Treating the Morbidity of the Multilateral System: Toward a Global Green New Deal,” was published by OpenDemocracy on May […]
The Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) at the Global Development Policy Center and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently co-hosted a three-day workshop and seminar series exploring the environmental science, policy, and land use impacts of remote sensing in tropical forests. The series, convened by Pardee Center Faculty Associate and LULI Associate Director Professor Julie […]
We are proud to announce our Summer in the Field Research Fellows for 2019: Amelia Dangerfield, Emily Hammel, Jonathan D. Shaffer, Hiwote Solomon, Kehan Wang, and Zeying Wu. The Summer in the Field Program offers summer stipends up to $4,000 to qualified Masters and PhD students to participate in internship opportunities and field research related to […]
The Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted our second annual Washington, D.C. panel discussion featuring thought leaders of international economics and development, who discussed the current crisis of multilateralism and offered alternatives for a better future. The discussion, co-hosted by the GDP Center and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, featured María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the […]
The multilateral system is in crisis. After years of accentuating financial instability, inequality, and climate change, the system is now under attack on all fronts and may be pushed to the limit by the actions of the United States. In late 2018 and early 2019, the Boston University Global Development Policy Center partnered with the […]
World finance and development leaders coming to Washington this week for the annual Spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank will find a Washington hostile to multilateralism. Ahead of the meetings, the Global Economic Governance Initiative of Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center releases three new studies that highlight the current crisis in the multilateral […]
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor at Columbia University, presented the inaugural Paul Streeten Distinguished Lecture at the new WBUR CitySpace on March 29,2019. The event drew a full crowd on a sunny Friday afternoon. The Paul Streeten Distinguished Lecture in Global Development Policy celebrates the example and legacy of Professor Paul Streeten as an […]
By: Peter Doeringer, Kevin P. Gallagher, Dilip Mookherjee and Gus Papanek Paul Streeten, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Boston University, passed away at the age of 101 at his home in Princeton, New Jersey on January 6, 2019. He was born in Austria in 1917, escaped to the UK at the start of the Second […]
In 2018, overseas energy financing by China’s two global policy banks—the China Development Bank (CDB) and the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM) —was at its lowest level since 2013. The two global policy banks provided approximately $8.62 billion to foreign countries in financing for energy sector activity overseas in 2018, bringing the total since 2000 […]
The Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America and the World program and the Global China Initiative at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP) estimate that China’s policy banks, China Development Bank and China Eximbank, issued roughly $7.7 billion in loans to LAC governments and state-owned firms in 2018. See the newly-updated Dialogue-GDP Center China-Latin America Finance Database and […]