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Stopping the Clock: Multilateral Development Banks Need to Give Nepal a Debt Pause

November 5th, 2026

By Rishikesh Ram Bhandary On August 26th, Nepal suffered from a devastating and unanticipated flood from a glacial rock collapse. Read more

November 5th, 2026

By Fahmida Khatun, Afrin Mahbub and Anindita Islam Climate change is already raising the cost and uncertainty of Bangladesh's trade, Read more

October 27th, 2026

By Geneva Costopulos As global economic leaders gathered in Bangkok for the 2026 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund Read more

October 23rd, 2026

By Vasudha Ramakrishna, written following a GDP Center funded Summer in the Field fellowship, and a follow-up to work in Read more

October 19th, 2026

The Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) is pleased to introduce the 2026-2027 cohort of pre- and post Read more

September 24th, 2026

By Rachel Thrasher and Tim Hirschel-Burns The United States’ new Agreements on Reciprocal Trade (ARTs) represent a novel form of Read more

September 22nd, 2026

By Marialuz Moreno Badia and Vikram Dixit Kumaraswamy Economists have increasingly turned to news coverage to gauge economic sentiment in Read more

September 21st, 2026

By Alex Clark In 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a halt to new public funding for coal plants abroad. Read more

September 14th, 2026

By Tim Hirschel-Burns This blog is part of a blog series on past large-scale international investment programs and the lessons Read more

September 10th, 2026

By Marina Zucker-Marques and Kevin P. Gallagher Last month, the world’s major central bankers converged upon Jackson Hole during a Read more