Category: GEGI

GDP Center Hosts Virtual China-West Dialogue

This past Friday, Colin Bradford and Ambassador Jorge Heine convened a virtual Global Development Policy Center workshop of the China-West Dialogue to discuss the future of global governance in the context of Covid-19 and other challenges, such as climate change. The virtual workshop was well attended and featured a keynote introduction by The Right Honourable […]

China-Latin America Economic Bulletin, 2020

In 2019, trade between China and Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) hit record figures, though the relationship between exports and imports has largely held steady from 2018. Infrastructure continued to form the backbone of the relationship, providing the majority of both development finance and investment.  These are among findings of the China-Latin America Economic […]

Access to Medicines Activism: Collaboration, Conflicts, and Complementarities

Activists, legal scholars and global health experts have worked with key global health institutions, leadings Indian generic medicines producers and a group of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to achieve remarkable success in lowering the price of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines in response to the global AIDS pandemic. The need for increased access to these medicines […]

China’s Global Energy Finance (CGEF) 2019

In 2019, overseas energy financing by China’s two policy banks with global operations, the China Development Bank (CDB) and the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM), was at its lowest level since 2008.  In a new policy brief, Xinyue Ma, Kevin P. Gallagher and Yanan Guo examine China’s global energy finance in 2019, using the China’s […]

Prudential Regulations for Greening the Financial System: Coping with Climate Disasters

Prudential Financial Regulators, Central Banks and Regulatory Authorities have increasingly come to recognize that they have a role to play in dealing with climate change, including climate disasters such as storms, tornadoes and tsunamis. Such events impact the economy by destroying physical assets, income opportunities, credit worthiness and the fiscal base. In turn, the financial […]

Comments and Suggested Additions

By Brook K. Baker Draft General Comment: Science and economic, social and cultural rights Art. 15: 15.1.b, 15.2, 15.3 and 15.4 (Jan. 28, 2020)  

Pharmaceutical Industry-led Partnerships Focused on Addressing the Global Burden of Non-communicable Diseases: A Review of Access Accelerated

Global health partnerships have been growing in popularity, with many of these partnerships led by biopharmaceutical companies focusing on non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Along the way, these partnerships have faced both internal and external challenges, from lack of clarity of partner’s roles and responsibilities to a lack of harmonization.  A journal article in Public Health  by […]