The past two decades have witnessed China’s rise as the world’s leading provider of official development finance (ODF) for energy. However, the overwhelming majority of the Chinese ODF has flown to fossil fuels projects, with solar and wind power representing 2.6 percent the total for electric power worldwide and 1.1 percent of the total for […]
In the fall of 2013, Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a means to mobilize resources, strengthen connectivity links, leverage potential growth drivers and connect markets with a view to integrating more countries and regions into economic globalization and achieving shared prosperity through mutually beneficial cooperation. Aligning the BRI […]
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, was interviewed for a recent article examining whether developing countries should accept funding from China. Gallagher was quoted in a December 12, 2019 article in Financial Times entitled “Should Poor Countries Welcome Beijing’s Money?“ From 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 […]
By Rebecca Ray Global Americans, December 5, 2019
A new book, “Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon,” edited by Rebecca Ray, Kevin P. Gallagher and Cynthia A. Sanborn explores what development banks, governments and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon, and the pressures of a surging infrastructure and […]
By Kevin P. Gallagher and Rebecca Ray Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Estudios China-México, November 2019.
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 […]
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 […]