By Tianyi Wu Development finance is at a critical inflection point: many low- and middle-income countries are facing mounting pressures just as traditional donors and creditors are retrenching, even though infrastructure needs and the demand for reliable financing of basic public services remain pressing. To examine this issue, the GDP Center hosted the “Development Finance […]
By Rebecca Ray In 2024, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) had a record trade deficit with China, amounting to 1.4 percent of regional GDP. At the same time, the region’s exports to China re showing signs of shifting down the value chain, as the top five LAC-China exports are now raw materials with no […]
By Molly Breen-Aronson On Thursday, October 23, Michael Greenstone, Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and Director of the Energy Policy Institute and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth at the University of Chicago, presented the 2025 Paul Streeten Distinguished Lecture in Global Development Policy. Professor Greenstone’s lecture shared a methodology for estimating […]