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Raising the Standard: Environment and Social Regulations and Courting Chinese Investment in the Amazon Basin
By Yudong (Nathan) Liu Through the first two decades of this century, countries in the Amazon basin have developed strategies Read more

Do Written Contracts Work? Lessons from a Field Experiment in Malawi
By Laura Aquino Imagine you need to print your thesis or dissertation. You go to a print shop near Boston Read more

Netting Investment Flows: The Push and Pull Determinants of China’s Overseas Aquaculture Investment
By Laura Gormley Over the next decade, Chinese demand for imported seafood is projected to grow dramatically. China currently hosts Read more

Does User-Centered Counseling Have an Impact on Family Planning? Evidence from Malawi
By Yunus Kurt Family planning is a series of important decisions on when/if to have children, and it involves a Read more

Webinar Summary – Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose
By José Luis Reséndiz On Thursday, September 15, 2022, the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted Dr. Stefan Read more

Webinar Summary: The Future of Industrialization in a Post-Pandemic World
By Rebecca Ray On Tuesday, September 13, Dr. Justin Yifu Lin, Director of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Read more

In Debt Restructuring, is a “Haircut” Better than “Rescheduling?” New Research Shows They are Comparable Approaches
By Yan Wang and Ying Qian After nearly three years of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, the global economy Read more

The Road Before the World Trade Organization: Three Possible Pathways
By Rachel Thrasher From September 27-30, 2022, the World Trade Organization (WTO) will host its annual Public Forum, where WTO Read more

Mothers-in-Law, Friends and Husbands: Leveraging Social Connections to Improve Women’s Reproductive Autonomy in India
By Vidhu Priya Mukundan In 2020, the World Health Organization reported that out of the 1.9 billion women of reproductive Read more

Summer in the Field: Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equity in Meghalaya, India
By Anjali Kini Meghalaya, located in the Northeast of India, is one of the few still existing matrilineal societies in Read more