Kevin Gallagher, Director of the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, was interviewed for a recent article examining whether developing countries should accept funding from China. Gallagher was quoted in a December 12, 2019 article in Financial Times entitled “Should Poor Countries Welcome Beijing’s Money?“ From the […]
Jessica DiCarlo, PhD Candidate and GCI Research Fellow, presented her research titled “Railroaded: Land Politics Along the Laos-China Corridor” on Monday, December 2nd during the GDP Center’s last GCI Colloquium of Fall 2019. DiCarlo shared her case study of the land politics along the Laos-China Corridor. Her research focuses on the social and environmental impacts of land politics […]
Janine Ferretti, Professor of the Practice of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, is in Madrid, Spain this week to present new research on climate change and development conducted by the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center. Ferretti will present GDP Center research showing that there is an investment opportunity upwards […]
Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently met with members of the Uganda National Population Council (NPC) to discuss the importance of the Demographic Dividend as it could apply to informing Ugandan policy and investment priorities that take account of the impact of […]
By Mahesh Karra HCI Working Paper 12, GDP Center, November 2019.
By Kevin P. Gallagher and Rebecca Ray Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Estudios China-México, November 2019.
On Thursday, November 7th, the GDP Center held a book launch for Sonia E. Rolland and David Trubek’s new book, Emerging Powers in the International Economic Order. The book launch consisted of an introduction of the book by Rolland, followed by commentary from Northeastern Professor, Dan Danielsen, and a video call from Richard Kozul-Wright, Director […]
Henrik Selin, Associate Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, published a recent Op-Ed on the challenges faced by the Paris Agreement after the withdrawal of the United States The Op-Ed, entitled “Can the Paris Agreement on climate change succeed without the US? 4 questions answered” was published in the The Conversation on November 12, 2019. From […]
Developing countries need more fiscal revenue to build their infrastructure, achieve energy security and environmental sustainability, and provide social services necessary for human development. While trade and investment treaties have typically been assumed to be revenue-neutral, economic studies demonstrate that such is not the case. The legal literature has not given much consideration to this […]
Rebecca Ray, Postdoctoral Fellow at GEGI, was recently quote in a Clarin Politica article titled “La política internacional del kirchnerismo”. The article theories the future foreign policy of President-elect of the Argentina government, Alberto Fernandez, in trade relations with China. International experts indicate that relations between the two nations will increase, but that it will […]