Category: News & Events

Director Kevin P. Gallagher Publishes Article on a New Multilateralism

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, co-wrote a recent article on working toward a new multilateralism for shared prosperity. Gallagher’s article, entitled “Towards A New Multilateralism for Shared Prosperity,” was published by The Bretton Woods Committee on May 8, 2019. The article […]

GDP Center Co-Hosts Seminar and Workshop Series on Remote Sensing in Tropical Forests

The Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) at the Global Development Policy Center  and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently co-hosted a three-day workshop and seminar series exploring the environmental science, policy, and land use impacts of remote sensing in tropical forests. The series, convened by Pardee Center Faculty Associate and LULI Associate Director Professor Julie […]

Gallagher Publishes Article on Trump’s Trade Policy

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, recently published a critique and alternative to United States President Donald Trump’s trade policy. Gallagher’s article, entitled “The Trade Strategy We Need,” was published in The American Prospect on October 24, 2018. From the text of […]

Recording of our 2nd Annual Washington, D.C. Panel Series

The Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted our second annual Washington, D.C. panel discussion featuring thought leaders of international economics and development, who discussed the current crisis of multilateralism and offered alternatives for a better future.  The discussion, co-hosted by the GDP Center and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, featured María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the […]

Julie Klinger Publishes Journal Article on Environmental Activism, Geological Survey, and Expansion of Satellite Networks in BRI

Julie Klinger, Associate Director of the Global Development Policy Center’s Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI), recently published a journal article environmental activism, geological survey, and the expansion of satellite networks in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the journal Territory, Politics, Governance on March 24, 2019. Klinger’s article, entitled “Environment, development, and security politics in the production […]

Julie Klinger Publishes Journal Article on Geopolitics and Outer Space

Julie Klinger, Associate Director of the Global Development Policy Center’s Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI), recently published a journal article on the intersection of environmental geopolitics and outer space in the journal Geopolitics on March 20, 2019. Klinger’s article, entitled “Environmental Geopolitics and Outer Space,” explores the concept of outer space through classical, critical, environmental, and feminist geopolitical theories […]

GDP Center Establishes Working Group on Trade Treaties & Access to Medicines

The recently established United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have put global health at the center of the global development agenda. While there have been decades of discussion on the trade regime and access to medicines, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) bring a renewed sense of importance and urgency to the debate. SDG goal number […]

Japan Foundation Partners with GDP Center for Global Finance Workshop

The Global Development Policy Center partnered with the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership on March 1st 2019 to host a workshop entitled “Leading by Design: Lessons from CMIM-AMRO for the Global Financial Safety Net.” The workshop included a variety of topics related to global financial safety, including Regional Financial Arrangements (RFAs), monetary and fiscal policy challenges, […]

GDP Center Hosts Public Lecture with Dean Naoyuki Yoshino

On March 1st, 2019, Dean Naoyuki Yoshino of the Asian Development Bank Institute visited the Global Development Policy Center to present on monetary and fiscal policy challenges in Japan. The public lecture, which took place at the Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies, built on the discussions from our February 28th T20 workshop and […]