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Webinar Summary – Introducing the China Overseas Finance Inventory (COFI) Database
By Oyintarelado (Tarela) Moses On March 1, 2022, the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center joined a webinar hosted Read more

Chart of the Week: Shrinking Policy Space in International Trade Treaties
By Samantha Igo After two years of severe economic stress from the COVID-19 pandemic, economies are just beginning to recover Read more

Around the Halls: The State of Human Capital Development After Two Years of COVID-19
March 11, 2022 marks two years since the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. While the past Read more

Webinar Summary – Two Years of COVID-19: Reforming Multilateralism to Support Pandemic Policy Responses
By Özlem Ömer On Tuesday, March 1, the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a webinar to discuss Read more

Webinar Summary: Financing Tropical Conservation – Debt-for-Nature Proposals for Ecuador and China
By Rebecca Ray As part of the Spring 2022 Global China Research Colloquium, Carlos Larrea, Professor of Social Science at Read more

5 Design Features for a Transformational Resilience and Sustainability Trust at the IMF
By Samantha Igo Amid the social and economic stress of the COVID-19 pandemic, emerging market and developing countries have faced Read more

Webinar Summary – Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas
By Zara C. Albright On Thursday, February 17, 2022 the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted Dr. Stephen Read more

Chart of the Week: Tracking Female Political and Economic Exclusion Across the World
By Emanne Khan The global COVID-19 pandemic, now entering its second year, has upended nearly every aspect of daily life. Read more

Growing Momentum for Coal Phase-Down in the Global South: Lessons from Pakistan
By Rishikesh Ram Bhandary and Cecilia Han Springer Although Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced last year that China will no Read more

How Global Trade Rules Put the World at Risk for Financial Crisis
By Rachel Thrasher In the wake of the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis, there was a movement by the International Monetary Read more