Michele Ruta, Lead Economist in the Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment Global Practice of the World Bank Group, presented on the Belt and Road Initiative’s economics as part of the GDP Center’s GCI Colloquium. The presentation, titled “Belt and Road Economics: The social, environmental, and economics impacts,” began with an economic analysis of China’s BRI, looking at the […]
Lucy Hornby, a 2020 Harvard Neiman Fellow for Journalism and former Deputy Bureau Chief of the Financial Times in Beijing, presented “China’s BRI – A New Colonialism” to a crowd of BU faculty and students and fellow Neiman scholars on Monday, November 11th. Hornby presented a history of the Belt and Road Initiative in its initial stages, formerly […]
Gregory T. Chin, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, presented as part of the GDP Center’s Global China Research Colloquium on Monday, November 4th to a crowd of BU faculty, students, and staff. In his presentation, titled “The AIIB: Early Development, Innovations and Future Priorities,” Chin explained the reasoning for the […]
Yunnan Chen, a PhD Candidate at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, presented as part of the Global Policy Development Center’s GCI Research Colloquium. Her talk, titled “Railpolitik: Drivers and Challenges of Chinese Financed African Railways,” provided a case study concerning the construction of the first electrified railroad in Ethiopia. Chen presents a […]
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, published a recent Op-Ed with Matías Vernengo of Bucknell University on the IMF’s needed change of course regarding Argentina. The Op-Ed, entitled “The IMF’s second chance in Argentina” was published in the […]
Jorge Heine, research professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, commented on the cancellation of the APEC summit and COP25 climate meeting in Chile. The Op-Ed, entitled “Chilean ex-ambassador: cancellation of APEC an unfortunate policy”, and interview aired on October 30, 2019. From the text of the Op-Ed: Amid weeks-long protests, the Chilean government announced […]
Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from a few million dollars in the 1990s to $2.5 trillion in 2015, spurring economic growth and reducing between-country inequality in the host countries and regions. This concentration of Chinese investments in states and sectors with low investment grades has led China to be caricatured as a “bad […]
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, published a recent Op-Ed on the reforms new IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva must implement as she faces the challenges of the IMF. Gallagher’s Op-Ed, entitled “Kristalina Georgieva’s IMF challenge” […]
By Caroline Flammer GEGI Working Paper 33, October 2019.
By Caroline Flammer GEGI Working Paper 34, October 2019.