Category: Publications

Fragmentation and Mobilization: Domestic Politics of the Belt and Road in China

Rarely has a non-US policy program generated as much controversy as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Five years later, the BRI is by far the most watched foreign policy initiative that China has projected on the world stage, yet its roots and effects have been and will be continuously shaped by China’s internal political […]

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), […]

Beyond the Article: Exploring China’s Trillion Dollar Renewable Energy Opportunity

GDP Center Researchers Miquel Muñoz Cabré, Kevin P. Gallagher, and Zhongshu Li recently published an article on renewable energy and opportunities for Chinese overseas investment in China & World Economy (CWE)  with a new correlating interactive database. According to the authors, there are three reasons that China is uniquely poised to lead renewable energy global investments:   China’s […]

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 […]

Climate Transition Risk and Development Finance: A Carbon Risk Assessment of China’s Overseas Energy Portfolios

The role of development finance institutions (DFIs) in low-income and emerging countries is fundamental to providing long-term capital for investments in climate mitigation and adaptation. There is growing awareness among DFIs of the need to factor climate change into the financial risk assessment of their portfolios and the importance of assessing the opportunities generated by […]

Renewable Energy: The Trillion Dollar Opportunity for Chinese Overseas Investment

Over the past 15 years, China has become one of the largest investors in the world, with Chinese companies, commercial banks and policy banks making  major  inroads  in  every  region of the globe. China also launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013 with the goal of catalyzing trillions of dollars of investments into […]