Category: Events & Multimedia

GCI Colloquium: The AIIB – Early Development, Innovations & Future Priorities

Gregory T. Chin, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, presented as part of the GDP Center’s Global China Research Colloquium on Monday, November 4th to a crowd of BU faculty, students, and staff.  In his presentation, titled “The AIIB: Early Development, Innovations and Future Priorities,” Chin explained the reasoning for the […]

GCI Colloquium: Railpolitik – Drivers and Challenges of Chinese Financed African Railways

Yunnan Chen, a PhD Candidate at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, presented as part of the Global Policy Development Center’s GCI Research Colloquium. Her talk, titled “Railpolitik: Drivers and Challenges of Chinese Financed African Railways,” provided a case study concerning the construction of the first electrified railroad in Ethiopia. Chen presents a […]

GDP Center Hosts UNCTAD Trade and Development Report Launch

The Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted the October 22, 2019 launch of the the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 2019 Trade and Development Report.  Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, gave a presentation launching the report to the Boston University […]

Recording of our 2nd Annual Washington, D.C. Panel Series

The Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted our second annual Washington, D.C. panel discussion featuring thought leaders of international economics and development, who discussed the current crisis of multilateralism and offered alternatives for a better future.  The discussion, co-hosted by the GDP Center and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, featured María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the […]

GDP Center Co-Hosts AMRO Workshop on Regional Surveillance

Many thanks to the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office for co-hosting fascinating @GDPC_BU workshop on regional surveillance, and to @Japanfoundation Center for Global Partnership for its financial support! @BUPardeeSchool pic.twitter.com/UuJwuKTfmq — William Grimes (@WilliamWGrimes) October 4, 2018 The workshop, entitled “Scaling Up and Leveraging Regional Surveillance”, was sponsored by Boston University’s Global Development Policy (GDP) Center, the […]