Category: News & Events

The Co-Benefits of Stakeholder Engagement: Environmental and Social Safeguards, Infrastructure Investment, and Deforestation in the Andean Amazon, 2000-2015

Since the turn of the 21st century, South America’s Western Andean nations have adopted some of the world’s most ambitious environmental and social protections surrounding infrastructure investment, including most notably the right to prior consultation for affected Indigenous communities. These reforms have been matched by the adoption of equally ambitious environmental and social safeguards (ESS) […]

Gallagher Teaches UNCTAD Summer School Course

Kevin P. Gallagher, Director of the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, taught a recent United Nations Conference on Trade and Development summer school course in Geneva, Switzerland on the crisis of multilateralism.  The school, which is co-sponsored with the Institute for New Economic Thinking, […]

Selin Launches NSF Project on Mercury in Artisanal Mining

Henrik Selin is part of a National Science Foundation-funded project on “Mercury Pollution and Human-Technical-Environmental Interactions in Artisanal Mining.” Selin is working on the project with a team including Noelle Selin, Steven Barrett and Ruth Goldstein. The project applies a social, technical and environmental systems perspective to analyze mercury use and human well-being with a focus on artisanal […]

Karra Publishes Journal Article on Postpartum IUD Counseling in Sri Lanka

Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, co-wrote a recently published journal article in International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.  Karra’s article, entitled “Ethnolinguistic Concordance and the Receipt of Postpartum IUD Counseling Services in Sri Lanka,” was published in International Perspectives on Sexual and […]

IDB Meets in Guayaquil, Ecuador amid China-US Tensions, Safeguard Revision

Leaders from across the Americas and beyond are gathering in Guayaquil, Ecuador today for the annual meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank. The meeting comes at a crucial juncture for the bank. As its leaders converge, the IDB is undertaking a major revision of its environmental and social safeguards, while also seeking to heal internal […]

Karra Publishes Article in International Journal of Epidemiology

Mahesh Karra, Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at the GDP Center and Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published a recent journal article in the International Journal of Epidemiology.  Karra’s article, entitled “Early-Life Exposure to Ambient Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: […]

Gallagher & Kozul-Wright Publish Op-Ed on a global Green New Deal

Kevin P. Gallagher, Director of the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, co-wrote a recent article on working toward a global Green New Deal. The Op-Ed, entitled “Treating the Morbidity of the Multilateral System: Toward a Global Green New Deal,” was published by OpenDemocracy on May […]