Category: Latin America and the Caribbean

Gallagher quoted in NYTimes on China’s influence in Latin America

Kevin P. Gallagher, Director of the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University, was interviewed for a recent article on China’s economic influence in Latin America.  Gallagher was quoted in a July 2018 article in The New York Times, entitled “From a Space Station in Argentina, China Expands Its Reach in Latin America.”  The article is nominally about the Chinese space […]

Ray publishes Op-Ed with lessons for development banks after megadam collapses in Colombia

#LoÚltimo Video capta el momento exacto de la emergencia en otro túnel de Hidroituango pic.twitter.com/9W2Qp1Vkgv — Noticias Caracol (@NCAntioquia) May 16, 2018 Rebecca Ray, a post-doctoral scholar at the GDP Center, published an Op-Ed, entitled “Colombia megadam collapse highlights need for comprehensive standards,” in response to the collapse of the Ituango dam (Hidroituango) this summer. […]

China-Latin America Economic Bulletin, 2018

In 2017, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) continued to strengthen economic ties with China, especially with respect to trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in extraction, infrastructure and to a lesser extent, manufacturing activities. Conversely, Chinese policy banks gave fewer loans to Latin American governments, according to the China-Latin America Finance Database, jointly administered […]

Why Latin America Nations Fail: Development Strategies in the Twenty-First Century

University of California Press (October 2017) Kevin P. Gallagher and Research Fellow Rebecca Ray chapter contribution. Book description: The question of development is a major topic in courses across the social sciences and history, particularly those focused on Latin America. Many scholars and instructors have tried to pinpoint, explain, and define the problem of underdevelopment […]

Standardizing Sustainable Development: A Comparison of Development Banks in the Americas

There is a sense of urgency in emerging market and developing countries, and Latin America in particular, for international development banks to generate a pipeline of infrastructure projects to reboot lagging economies and meet broader sustainable development goals. In meeting those goals, it is also important to ensure such efforts are socially inclusive and environmentally […]