On Weds., Feb. 24, the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and the Inter-American Dialogue (IAD) hosted a webinar discussion to highlight new research on Chinese overseas development lending to both global energy projects and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The webinar covered updates to two different interactive databases, both with supporting policy materials: China-Latin […]
By Rebecca Ray, Zara C. Albright, and Kehan Wang 2020 was a possible inflection point in the economic relationship between Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and China. According to joint research from Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center and the Inter-American Dialogue, last year, for the first time since 2006, China didn’t offer any […]
Even before the COVID-19 crisis, it was clear the global economy needed a reset and a massive increase in public investment. In the last decade, it is no exaggeration to say that the leadership for this has come from the South – as Southern-owned development banks, infrastructure funds, foreign exchange reserve funds and sovereign wealth […]
The China’s Global Energy Finance Database, compiled and updated annually by Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center, is an interactive data project that exhibits financing for global energy projects by China’s two global policy banks—the China Development Bank (CDB) and the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM). In February 2021, the database was updated with 2020 […]
Job Description This is a newly created position to help convene and incubate a global Task Force on Financing a Green and Inclusive COVID-19 Recovery. The role’s primary focus is to assist in setting and implementing the strategic research and policy agenda for a portfolio of projects in Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) as directed […]
This is a newly created position to help convene and incubate a global Task Force on Financing a Green and Inclusive COVID-19 Recovery. This is a 12-month position with the potential of renewal. The Communications & Outreach Associate supports the operations for strategic communications and outreach programs for the task force. This role reports the […]
China’s vast construction of infrastructure around the world involves not only promises of transnational cooperation, connectivity, and national development, but also local dispossession. Indeed, construction requires large tracts of land, which often leads to the displacement of local people. In Laos, investments since the early-2000s have entailed land loss and questionable safeguard practices. Despite pressure […]
Since the late 1950s, the world has come to use the US dollar to an extent that justifies speaking of the dollar’s global domain. In a new journal article published in the Atlantic Economic Journal, Global Development Policy Center Non-Resident Senior Fellow Robert McCauley contends that the global role of the dollar remains large and suffers […]
By Yan Wang, Yinyin Xu and Kevin P. Gallagher On Jan. 10, 2021, China’s State Council Information Office issued a white paper entitled “China’s International Development Cooperation in the New Era” (WP2021, hereafter). This new white paper is the first of its kind since an earlier 2014 ‘White Paper on China’s Foreign Aid’ (WP2014), which […]
On Weds., Feb. 3, the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a webinar discussion and interactive demonstration of its latest research on opportunities debt-for-climate and debt-for-nature swaps with China. The research includes a journal article published in Science, a blog summary of the methodology and main findings, as well as an a new interactive tool […]