Category: Latin America and the Caribbean

GDP Center Releases 2019 China’s Global Energy Finance (CGEF) Database & Policy Brief

In 2018, overseas energy financing by China’s two global policy banks—the China Development Bank (CDB) and the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM) —was at its lowest level since 2013. The two global policy banks provided approximately $8.62 billion to foreign countries in financing for energy sector activity overseas in 2018, bringing the total since 2000 […]

China-Latin America Finance Database 2019

The Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America and the World program and the Global China Initiative at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP) estimate that China’s policy banks, China Development Bank and China Eximbank, issued roughly $7.7 billion in loans to LAC governments and state-owned firms in 2018. See the newly-updated Dialogue-GDP Center China-Latin America Finance Database and […]

2019 China-Latin America Economic Bulletin

These are the findings of the 2019 China-Latin America Economic Bulletin, which brings together the most important annual trends for this burgeoning relationship in terms of trade, finance, and investment. In 2018, China-Latin America cooperation continued to deepen, though Chinese finance and investment in the region appears to have been relatively cautious in nature. These are […]

Can South–South Cooperation Compete? The Development Bank of Latin America and the Islamic Development Bank

The last few decades have seen significant progress in multilateral institutions across the Global South. Southern-led multilateral development banks (MDBs) play a key role in harnessing global capital to finance the sectors most important to borrowers, especially infrastructure. Two prominent Southern MDBs, the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), […]

Gallagher Publishes Op-Ed FT on China’s Climate Leadership

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 […]

GDP Center Databases Featured in NY Times

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 […]

Moving the Green Belt and Road Initiative: From Words to Actions

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 […]

New Report: The Climate Implications of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

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. […]