On March 7, 2018, BU’s new Global Development Policy Center hosted a “Research Meeting on the Empirical Microeconomics of HIV.” Organized by BU School of Public Health professor Jacob Bor and Harsha Thirumurthy of the University of Pennsylvania, the meeting brought together thirty experts in HIV economics from around the world. The meeting was timed […]
Rachael Garrett, Associate Director of the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center is featured on the home page of bu.edu. The article, below, highlights Garrett’s work in Brazil, where cattle ranching, farming, and the growth of cities has led to the deforestation of 150,000 square miles of rainforest since […]
By Julie Klinger. Dialogo Chino, February 15, 2018
Kevin P. Gallagher quoted in article by Patrick Gillespie. CNN Money, February 14, 2018.
Kevin Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy and Director of the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University, was named as the co-chair of the T20 task force on International Financial Architecture for Stability and Development. The T20 is the research and policy advice network for the G20 summit. Co-chairs for the ten T20 task forces were named as G20 […]
A common argument for renewable energy is that it leads to job creation in the country or region where it is located. Yet this clean-energy boost to local employment could be at risk under World Trade Organization (WTO) rulings that prohibit favoritism for local producers. In a working paper for the Working Group on Trade, […]
In an effort to address chronic inequality, air pollution, and climate change in an integrative manner, many nations have deployed Local Content Requirements (LCRs). In the five years following the 2008 Financial Crisis, twenty such policies were put in place all over the world. These policies are justified on both economic and political grounds—by correcting […]
Over the last two decades, many governments have incorporated clauses in free trade agreements that commit treaty members to promoting good labor and environmental laws as well as outcomes. The logic is that countries should not gain competitive advantage in trade by undermining or failing to protect workers’ rights and the environment. The commitments typically […]
The inaugural workshop of the GDP Center in partnership with the Pardee School for Global Studies was held on September 15, 2017. The workshop was titled “BEYOND BRETTON WOODS: Complementarity and Competition in the International Economic Order.” The workshop brought together scholars who have been researching developmental financial arrangements in emerging market and developing countries to […]
On Wednesday June 7th, 2017, the Center for New Structural Economics at Peking University and Boston University co-hosted a joint workshop with the theme of “Development Banks and Green Energy: South-South Cooperation for Structural Transformation and Sustainable Development”—an invite-only event of the New Structural Economics International Development Forum. Development banks are poised to play a […]