By Rebecca Ray On Tuesday, September 13, Dr. Justin Yifu Lin, Director of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, joined the Fall 2022 Global China Research Colloquium to discuss the future of industrialization in a post-pandemic world. Industrialization has been a dominant goal for developing nations for much of the last century. […]
By Yan Wang and Ying Qian After nearly three years of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, the global economy is facing three overlapping crises: 1) the climate crisis, as shown by extreme weather disasters, 2) Russia’s war in Ukraine, which has led to energy and food prices to skyrocket and 3) capital outflows from […]
On August 19, 2022, China announced it would waive 23 interest-free loans (IFLs) with maturity by the end of 2021 for 17 unspecified African countries worth an unspecified total amount. While it is challenging to determine the exact amount of the cancelations due to lack of information, a new policy brief by the Boston University […]
By Anisa Saleh The matter of project sustainability is often prevalent in the field of global health. There are numerous well-funded donor projects with eventual end dates. Project sustainability and transitions to local agencies are not always thoroughly considered in the initial project planning process, but mostly closer to the end of a funding cycle. […]
The Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center is a university-wide research center in partnership with the Frederick S. Pardee School for Global Studies and the Office of Research at Boston University. In its fifth year of operation, the GDP Center is proud to present its 2022 Annual Report. The report provides an overview of the […]
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) launched by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in late 2013 has been the most studied Chinese policy in recent years and has been portrayed variously by different observers worldwide, as China’s great-power strategy, global infrastructure initiative or commercial projects. But how can one initiative be shown to have such varied […]
By James Sundquist The “Rise of China” is one of the great stories of this century. But how is this story told? Is the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) about South-South cooperation or debt-trap diplomacy? How much attention should be paid to China’s economic miracle and how much to its human rights violations? A new […]
Previous research by Rachel Brulé has demonstrated the powerful effects quotas for women in government can have on women’s property rights and economic standing. Women who assume elected office through quota systems can support their female constituents by advocating for gender equality in land reform and inheritance. Conversely, Brulé and colleagues have identified significant backlash […]
Studies have quantified excess mortality in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic relative to pre-COVID-19 US death rates. However, even before the pandemic, US residents died at younger ages than people in other wealthy nations, particularly from drug overdoses, suicides and cardiometabolic disorders. In a new working paper published in medRxiv, Jacob Bor and […]
The Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center is pleased to present the 2022 Summer in the Field Fellows. These four outstanding Boston University students are currently pursuing graduate degrees at different departments across the university, including the School of Public Health, the Pardee School of Global Studies and the Department of Economics. The GDP […]