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From Building Local Government Capacity to Improving Childhood Nutrition: Meet the 2024 Human Capital Initiative Core Faculty Members
By Maureen Heydt The Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) is pleased to announce the second cohort of Read more
Webinar Summary – A Crisis of Confidence? Reestablishing the Legitimacy of the International Monetary Fund and the Global Financial Safety Net
By Tim Hirschel-Burns On Tuesday, December 12th, the Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) hosted a webinar titled, Read more
GDP Center Round-up: 2023 Global China Database Updates
The Global China Initiative (GCI) manages a suite of five interactive public databases that collectively track hundreds of billions of dollars in Read more
GDP Center Round-Up: The 16th General Review of Quotas at the International Monetary Fund
By Sayuri Kataoka and Samantha Igo The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is scheduled to conclude its 16th General Review of Read more
Around the Halls: A Year in Review and Look Ahead to 2024
The year 2023 is coming to a close as emerging market and developing economies continue to experience economic headwinds in Read more
GDP Center Round-Up: Fall 2023 Global Economic Governance Initiative Book Talk Series
By Sayuri Kataoka and Claire Paul The Fall 2023 Global Economic Governance Book Talk Series convened five distinguished scholars with Read more
Seminar Summary – Social Media and Support for Dominant Political Incumbents: Evidence from Uganda
By Sayuri Kataoka Initial optimism regarding the potential of social media to act as “liberation technologies” has been tempered by Read more
Stops and Starts in Global Economic Governance Reform in 2023
By Tim Hirschel-Burns After several years characterized by a pandemic, multiple wars and mounting climate impacts that jolted the global Read more
Webinar Summary: China’s Global Energy Finance Database – Data Update
By Yudong (Nathan) Liu On November 16, 2023, the Boston University Global Development Policy Center hosted a webinar to accompany Read more
Inequities in Access to Crisis Finance for Low- and Middle-Income Countries Persist – Insights from the Updated Global Financial Safety Net Tracker
By Laurissa Mühlich, Barbara Fritz and William N. Kring Reform of the international financial architecture has become a pivotal issue, Read more