By Luma Ramos Worldwide, nations face challenges to finance stable, inclusive, and green structural transformation. Even before the COVID-19 crisis, economies had to create strategies and mobilize resources to fill the existing investment gap. Over the past decade, financial institutions in the Global South have pushed to channel their resources to meet their own needs. […]
Join Dr. Ulrich Volz for a discussion of the recent report, Climate Change and Sovereign Risk, prepared under the auspices of the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University of London; the Asian Development Bank Institute; the World Wide Fund for Nature Singapore; and Four Twenty Seven. The report examines the climate-related physical and […]
As part of the Fall 2020 Global Economic Governance Seminar Series, Zhongxia Jin will present on China and the International Monetary System. Dr. Jin is the Executive Director for China at the International Monetary Fund. STARTS: 9:00 am on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020 ENDS: 10:00 am on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020 LOCATION: Via Zoom REGISTRATION: https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Lf7XEAyiQ7afCnnxm__Vcg Zhongxia […]
Greening the Recovery in Time of Debt Distress A global debt crisis is looming. Even before COVID-19 swept the world, the International Monetary Fund deemed global public debt burden a high risk for the majority of developing countries – noting that half of the lower-income countries were ‘at high risk of or already in debt […]
The Global Development Policy Center at BU and the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G-24) hosted on August 18, 2020, a webinar entitled, “Collective Action Clauses in Motion: Lessons and Challenges for Covid-19 Era Sovereign Debt Restructurings.” The event featured a panel of renowned international legal and economic experts who […]
On March 17, the Boston University Council approved a new policy for Visiting Faculty & Research Scholars, and on June 16 a related policy for Visiting Students. These policies will be applied to all new appointments starting on or after Tuesday, September 1. Policy highlights are as follows — Visiting Faculty & Research Scholars Criteria for Appointment: The […]
Jessica DiCarlo, PhD Candidate and GCI Research Fellow, presented her research titled “Railroaded: Land Politics Along the Laos-China Corridor” on Monday, December 2nd during the GDP Center’s last GCI Colloquium of Fall 2019. DiCarlo shared her case study of the land politics along the Laos-China Corridor. Her research focuses on the social and environmental impacts of land politics […]
The multilateral system is in crisis. After years of accentuating financial instability, inequality, and climate change, the system is now under attack on all fronts and may be pushed to the limit by the actions of the United States. In late 2018 and early 2019, the GDP Center partnered with the United Nations Conference on […]
Michele Ruta, Lead Economist in the Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment Global Practice of the World Bank Group, presented on the Belt and Road Initiative’s economics as part of the GDP Center’s GCI Colloquium. The presentation, titled “Belt and Road Economics: The social, environmental, and economics impacts,” began with an economic analysis of China’s BRI, looking at the […]
Lucy Hornby, a 2020 Harvard Neiman Fellow for Journalism and former Deputy Bureau Chief of the Financial Times in Beijing, presented “China’s BRI – A New Colonialism” to a crowd of BU faculty and students and fellow Neiman scholars on Monday, November 11th. Hornby presented a history of the Belt and Road Initiative in its initial stages, formerly […]