By Ananya Agarwal Public servants worldwide face legal restrictions, to varying degrees, on their ability to leave the public sector to represent private interests for personal gain before the government in which they served. So-called “revolving door laws” often involve constraints on how a former official may interact with government (e.g., whether they can interact […]
By Claire Paul What happens when armed conflict and political turmoil coincide with a burgeoning market for international adoptions? How do poverty and state-sanctioned prejudice blur the line between consent and coercion? What is the human cost in the aftermath of the unsanctioned adoption industry that decimated the Guatemalan Indigenous population? In her new book, […]
Black individuals are more likely to report shorter sleep durations compared with white individuals, posing a potential public health problem given that short sleep is risk factor for many chronic and mental health conditions. Unequal exposure to police violence, a cardinal manifestation of structural racism, may be a contributor to racial disparities in sleep health. […]
By Maureen Heydt The Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) is pleased to announce the second cohort of Human Capital Initiative (HCI) Core Faculty Program. These seven full-time BU faculty members represent diverse departments across the University, including the Departments of Global Health and Epidemiology, Sociology, Economics, Health Sciences and the Pardee School […]
By Sayuri Kataoka Initial optimism regarding the potential of social media to act as “liberation technologies” has been tempered by the efficacy with which repressive regimes have exerted their control over such platforms. The efforts to limit citizen access to social media are widespread – whether through a ban on access to particular platforms, wholesale […]
Urban expansion in Africa offers opportunities for growth and development, but such growth will also present significant challenges to the planning, managing and financing of public infrastructure and services, particularly urban transportation systems. Inadequate transportation in African cities has a particularly disproportionate effect on women, who are likely to face additional social and structural barriers […]
By Richa Jindal Extreme poverty entraps over 719 million people worldwide who live on less than the cost of a cup of coffee in the United States. It is a complex and multifaceted state of living that deprives people of access to basic resources and opportunities. Often, escaping extreme poverty demands a significant amount of […]
By Richa Jindal Racism has a global historic root that has both been propagated in various forms. Often, people who propagate racism are situated in positions of power; their actions can therefore negatively impact vulnerable communities, which have suffered economically and socially by racial suppression. Historically, racism has also defined and dictated the socio-economic status […]
By Claire Paul From October 2-3, 2023, the French Development Agency (AFD), World Bank Development Group (DECGR), Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center), BU Institute for Economic Development (IED) and BU Human Resources Policy Institute (HRPI) jointly sponsored the 16th International Conference on Migration and Development, hosted at Boston University. The conference was […]
The prevailing view in political science and economics has been that women’s power in the Global North is greater than that in the Global South, where progress is viewed as slower and less impactful. Yet, across analytic levels, the developing world provides striking models of the assertion of women’s power, specifically the latest insight that […]