In 1995, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) introduced mandatory pharmaceutical patenting to the developing world for the first time. Alongside the regulatory challenges that this produced, TRIPS explicitly permitted some flexibilities enabling countries to protect intellectual property in diverse ways. Subsequently, modern bilateral and regional free trade agreements contain additional […]
Leading up to and in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, there has been a significant amount of literature demonstrating how regulating cross-border financial flows helps prevent and mitigate financial crises. However, an increasing number of trade and investment treaties makes it difficult to regulate the inflow or outflow of capital to prevent and […]
RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION: Renewable Energy Targets, a Global Estimate We are seeking a research assistant to join the Boston University Global Development Policy Center for the project Renewable Energy Targets, a Global Estimate. Project Description: The project Renewable Energy Targets, a Global Estimate seeks to quantify national renewable energy targets in the power sector globally, both in […]
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 […]
Intellectual property rights (IPR) provisions have become a staple of modern free trade agreements since the 1995 Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which set minimum standards for IPR protection for World Trade Organization (WTO) members. Many recent bilateral and multilateral trade agreements increase the scope and coverage of IPR provisions and […]
During the Global Financial Crisis, certain financial markets temporarily dried up, and left some corporations and investors seeking new avenues for building wealth, both for themselves and for their shareholders. One such avenue is commonly called third-party funding (TPF), in which an individual or corporation outside of a legal dispute provides financing to one of […]
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 […]