On February 28, 2019, the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a T20 workshop entitled ‘Toward G-20 Principles for International Monetary Fund (IMF) Reform.’ The T-20 is an official group of parallel global ‘think tanks’ to the G20 process. Japan hosts the 2019 G20 Summit and has formed a T20 Task Force on the International Financial Architecture […]
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, hosted a Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ (AMA) about the state of international economic affairs between the U.S. and China and the general state of the world economy in December 2018. The Boston […]
Julie M. Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and Associate Director of the Land Use & Livelihoods Initiative at the GDP Center, co-edited a recently published special issue of the journal Territory, Politics, Governance with Joshua Muldavin, Professor in the Department of Geography at Sarah Lawrence College. The […]
Rachael Garrett, Associate Director of the GDP Center’s Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) and Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University, published an Op-Ed in the Conversation this week, entitled, “Strict Amazon protections made Brazilian farmers more productive, new research shows.” This Op-Ed, complements her latest journal article published […]
Thank you to all who braved the rain for our inaugural open house event at Boston University, yesterday evening, on September 25, 2018. Our featured speaker Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies Dean Adil Najam presented as the lead author on the latest Pakistan National Human Development Report (NHDR) on Youth. Kevin Gallagher, Director of […]
Rachael Garrett, Associate Director of the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) at the GDP Center and Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University, recently published the article “Transparency and sustainability in the global commodity supply chains” in the multidisciplinary journal World Development. Text from the article: Despite an explosion of […]
Boston University President Robert A. Brown and Provost Jean Morrison are pleased to invite you to Brighter Prospects or Rose Colored Glasses? New Views on the Global Economy. Financial leaders from across the world are convening in Washington to cautiously celebrate what the International Monetary Fund sees as “brighter prospects.” Amidst the return of synchronized […]
Jacob Bor, a core faculty member of the Human Capital Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center and an Assistant Professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health, has won an opportunity to give a lecture at the 2018 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Early-Stage Investigator Lecture. The event, which took place on March 19th […]
Julie Michelle Klinger has just been awarded the distinguished American Association for Geographers (AAG) Meridian Book Award for her outstanding debut book, Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes (Cornell University Press, 2017). “Clearly written and appealing to a wide, general audience, Rare Earth Frontiers lays bare the complex web of relationships involved in the […]
The 2017 update of the China’s Global Energy Finance (CGEF) Database shows China’s two global policy banks, the China Development Bank (CDB) and the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM), are becoming the largest sources of energy finance for governments across the world. The interactive database, managed by the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, tracks […]