By Oyintarelado (Tarela) Moses This week, the African Development Bank (AfDB) convenes its annual meetings in Accra, Ghana under the theme of Achieving Climate Resilience and a Just Energy Transition for Africa. As countries throughout the region experience the effects of climate change, from floods in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa to severe droughts in parts […]
By Kate Chi On Wednesday, May 18, Blake Alexander Simmons, Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University, joined the Spring 2022 Global China Research Colloquium to discuss forthcoming research on China’s overseas development finance portfolio and the risks posed to marine habitats, biodiversity and coastal communities. […]
By Vidhu Priya Mukundan This month, the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting will gather in-person for the first time in in Davos, Switzerland since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Forum’s aim of leading the world towards sustainability and inclusivity has been magnified by the pandemic, the causalities of which are still being […]
By Yudong (Nathan) Liu As part of the Spring 2022 Global China Research Colloquium, the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a virtual discussion with University of Indonesia researchers Albertus Hadi Pramono, Masita Dwi Mandini Manessa, Mochamad Indrawan and Dwi Amalia Sari on conducting a spatial environmental assessment of select Belt and Road […]
In 2020, the Chinese Loans to Africa (CLA) Database, managed by the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, recorded 11 new loan commitments worth $1.9 billion from Chinese lenders to African government borrowers. This low amount, not seen since the mid-2000s, is down 77 percent from 2019 volumes, when Chinese lenders signed 32 loan agreements […]
On Monday, March 28, 2022, China’s National Development and Reform Commission issued new guidelines on greening the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the ambitious multi-billion-dollar international push to better connect China to the rest of the world through trade and infrastructure. Through this venture, China is providing over 100 countries with funding they have long […]
For the second year in a row, the China-Latin America Finance Database, jointly managed by the Boston University Global Development Policy Center and the Inter-American Dialogue, recorded no new overseas finance commitments from China to Latin American governments or state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in 2021 through its two most active policy banks, the China Development Bank […]
Editor’s Note: The following is a testimony delivered by Dr. Cecilia Han Springer to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission hearing on ‘China’s Energy Plans and Practices’ on March 17, 2022. To Chairs Glas and Friedberg, to the Commission, good afternoon. My name is Cecilia Springer. I am the Assistant Director of the Global China Initiative at the […]
By Oyintarelado (Tarela) Moses On March 1, 2022, the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center joined a webinar hosted by the Word Resources Institute (WRI) to launch the China Overseas Finance Inventory (COFI) Database. WRI created the database in collaboration with the GDP Center, the China Africa Research Initiative at the Johns Hopkins University […]
By Rebecca Ray As part of the Spring 2022 Global China Research Colloquium, Carlos Larrea, Professor of Social Science at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar in Ecuador, shared his vision for a debt-for-nature swap between Ecuador and China, wherein portions of debt would be cancelled on the condition of allocating saved funds for conservation investments. […]