To reinforce commitments to international cooperation and policy research for global change, the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center has officially signed a new international academic partnership with the Shanghai University of International Business and Economics (SUIBE), aimed to bridge academic collaboration and action for policy solutions across borders. Last month, Meibo Huang from SUIBE visited […]
In the United States, the long-time disparity in men’s and women’s average earnings extends across skill levels. To explain why the gender pay gap persists between men and women with similar educational backgrounds and skills, researchers have documented robust differences in risk preferences and overconfidence between men and women, with women exhibiting a greater degree […]
Throughout history, the chemical element mercury has had a variety of applications spanning medicine, manufacturing and more. While mercury has played a role in a number of scientific advances, exposure to mercury can also cause serious health complications that have led to a steady reduction in its use in consumer products. The element is also […]
Wildlife conservation and management (WCM) practices have been historically drawn from a wide variety of academic fields, yet practitioners have been slow to engage with emerging conversations about animals as complex beings, whose individuality and sociality influence their relationships with humans. In a new journal article published in Conservation Biology, Émilie Edelblutte, Roopa Krithivasan and […]
Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center is seeking a pre-doctoral and/or post-doctoral fellow for research projects on energy and climate change policy in the GDP Center’s Global China Initiative. The position offers the opportunity to work with a collaborative team of other pre- and post-doctoral researchers and leading experts, new databases, and interdisciplinary projects. The […]
On March 17, the Boston University Council approved a new policy for Visiting Faculty & Research Scholars, and on June 16 a related policy for Visiting Students. These policies will be applied to all new appointments starting on or after Tuesday, September 1. Policy highlights are as follows — Visiting Faculty & Research Scholars Criteria for Appointment: The […]
The Global Development Policy Center and the G-24 will be hosting jointly a Webinar on “Collective Action Clauses in Motion: Lessons and Challenges for Covid-19 Era Sovereign Debt Restructurings” on Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm EST. To register, click here: bit.ly/3iGX2gx
by John N. Bush and Rachel Thrasher. The article was published by Tax Notes International on July 27, 2020. The piece was also mentioned in the editor’s comments on the contents of the magazine. To learn more, click here: bit.ly/3jLIjCv
Kevin Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy and Director of the Global Development Policy Center at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed by Argentinian news website Infobae on the restructuring of the country’s foreign debt. Argentina’s biggest bondholders recently offered a proposal to restructure $65 billion in debt, which suggests a […]
It is a convention to say that the Eurozone architecture is ill-constructed and deficient. However, monetary architecture is not a well-defined term in monetary theory, and there is no consensus what the Eurozone architecture is beyond being a metaphor. By combining insights from the research strand of (critical) macro-finance, a study from Steffen Murau develops […]