By Maureen Heydt On Thursday, December 10, the Global Development Policy (GDP)Center hosted a webinar launch event for the new interactive China’s Overseas Development Finance (CODF) Database, featuring GDP Center Director Kevin P. Gallagher, Senior Academic Researcher Rebecca Ray, and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Blake Alexander Simmons. The CODF Database is the first global, harmonized, validated, and geolocated […]
By Katie Gallogly-Swan Winning more votes than any other presidential candidate in American history, Joe Biden has pledged to tackle the interlinked crises of COVID-19, economic recession, racial injustice, and climate breakdown. The incoming administration’s green stimulus plans would make the United States the world’s biggest investor in a low-carbon future, according to recent analysis […]
By Rebecca Ray and Blake Alexander Simmons The China’s Overseas Development Finance Database is a geospatial dataset for analysis of China’s sovereign lending commitments and their proximity to Critical Habitats, National Protected Areas and Indigenous Peoples’ Lands. The database tracks lending commitments by China’s two major policy banks, the China Development Bank (CDB) and the […]
Join Dr. Ulrich Volz for a discussion of the recent report, Climate Change and Sovereign Risk, prepared under the auspices of the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University of London; the Asian Development Bank Institute; the World Wide Fund for Nature Singapore; and Four Twenty Seven. The report examines the climate-related physical and […]
By Xia Li Physical climate risks, such as wildfire, heat, water stress, excess rainfall, sea level rise, hurricane and typhoons, are having impacts on firms across industries, from business interruptions to increased losses. California’s largest utility company Pacific Gas and Electric Company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2019 as climate change dramatically increases the risk […]
By Maureen Heydt On November 19, 2020, the Global Development Policy center hosted a webinar to discuss the findings of the new report ‘Expanding Renewable Energy for Access and Development: The Role of Development Finance Institutions in Southern Africa’, co-produced with the SADC Development Finance Resource Centre (SADC-DFRC), the SADC Centre for Renewable Energy and […]
As the COVID-19 pandemic induces public finance deterioration in many countries in the world, community health resilience and other social challenges, such as climate change and economic inequality, are making it imperative that countries receive enough support to invest in social infrastructure and sustainable growth. A new report from the Global Development Policy Center examines […]
A report launched today in a public webinar calls on the G20 to move beyond the Common Framework for Debt Treatments announced last week and require public and private creditors to provide a substantial debt cut to a broad set of low- and middle-income countries, in exchange for a commitment to use the fiscal space for […]
By Victoria Chonn Ching China’s overseas investments have grown considerably since the outset of this century, raising questions about the impact of Chinese investments on the investment landscape in many countries. Latin America is no exception. What is the influence of China’s investments in Latin America? More specifically, have Chinese investments been butting in Latin […]
In a new report, the Global Development Policy Center outlines an ambitious new proposal for comprehensive debt relief that includes the private sector and middle-income countries, in an effort to jump start a green and inclusive recovery from COVID-19. The report, summarized below, is produced in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung and the Centre […]