GDP Center Researchers Miquel Muñoz Cabré, Kevin P. Gallagher, and Zhongshu Li recently published an article on renewable energy and opportunities for Chinese overseas investment in China & World Economy (CWE) with a new correlating interactive database. According to the authors, there are three reasons that China is uniquely poised to lead renewable energy global investments: China’s […]
Kevin Gallagher, Director of the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, published a recent Op-Ed on China’s emerging leadership on energy and climate change. Gallagher’s Op-Ed, entitled “China Must Calibrate Overseas Lending Towards Paris Climate Goals,” was published in Financial Times on December 10, 2018. From the […]
With China poised to invest $1-4 trillion in massive infrastructure and energy projects across the globe over the next decade, policy-oriented research and monitoring is necessary to maximize the potential as well as mitigate the risks of the largest level of public investment since the post-World War II Marshall Plan. The Boston University Global Development […]
Two databases developed at the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center were prominently featured by the New York Times as part of an interactive story on China’s vision for a global network of trade, investment and infrastructure: The China Global Energy Finance Database The China-Latin America Finance Database The article, entitled “China Rules: How China Became a Superpower,” was published by the New […]
The role of development finance institutions (DFIs) in low-income and emerging countries is fundamental to providing long-term capital for investments in climate mitigation and adaptation. There is growing awareness among DFIs of the need to factor climate change into the financial risk assessment of their portfolios and the importance of assessing the opportunities generated by […]
Over the past 15 years, China has become one of the largest investors in the world, with Chinese companies, commercial banks and policy banks making major inroads in every region of the globe. China also launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013 with the goal of catalyzing trillions of dollars of investments into […]
Since the Chinese government proposed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, Chinese investments have been rapidly increasing in BRI countries. The Chinese government’s $113 billion pledge in special funds for investments in 2013 suggests this trend will likely continue. The investment choices that Chinese financial institutions make surrounding power, transportation and other long-lasting […]
To download the report and accompanying blog piece from the WRI web page In a new report with the Washington-based World Resources Institute (WRI), researchers at the Global Development Policy Center find that China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is yet to be aligned with the low-carbon priorities included in BRI countries’ commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement. […]
Rebecca Ray, a postdoctoral fellow at the Global Development Policy Center, wrote a recent article about how the growth of China as a source of development finance for Latin America has changed the landscape and social governance of major development projects in the region. The article, entitled, “Chinese development finance and the Andean Amazonian infrastructure […]
By Rebecca Ray. Asia Dialogue, November 1 2018.