Dr. Susan Holcombe joined the Global Development Policy Center this week to discuss the subject of her latest co-edited volume, Practicing Development: Upending Assumptions for Positive Change. Dr. Holcombe, a Professor Emerita of the Practice at Brandeis University, said she was inspired to work on the book after realizing that narratives from the global north dominated […]
The multilateral system is in crisis. After years of accentuating financial instability, inequality, and climate change, the system is now under attack on all fronts and may be pushed to the limit by the actions of the United States. In late 2018 and early 2019, the GDP Center partnered with the United Nations Conference on […]
On Thursday, November 7th, the GDP Center held a book launch for Sonia E. Rolland and David Trubek’s new book, Emerging Powers in the International Economic Order. The book launch consisted of an introduction of the book by Rolland, followed by commentary from Northeastern Professor, Dan Danielsen, and a video call from Richard Kozul-Wright, Director […]
Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) established a working group of global scholars to identify the state of the current research, existing gaps in the data, and establishing a policy-oriented research agenda on trade treaties and access to medicines. The working group’s NEW report Rethinking Trade Treaties and Access to Medicines: Toward a Policy-Oriented Research Agenda synthesizes the state of […]
Gregory T. Chin, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, presented as part of the GDP Center’s Global China Research Colloquium on Monday, November 4th to a crowd of BU faculty, students, and staff. In his presentation, titled “The AIIB: Early Development, Innovations and Future Priorities,” Chin explained the reasoning for the […]
Yunnan Chen, a PhD Candidate at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, presented as part of the Global Policy Development Center’s GCI Research Colloquium. Her talk, titled “Railpolitik: Drivers and Challenges of Chinese Financed African Railways,” provided a case study concerning the construction of the first electrified railroad in Ethiopia. Chen presents a […]
The Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a lecture on Friday, October 18, 2019 with the President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Jin Liqun on multilateral approaches to development. For photos and more information about the talk, click here. Watch the live stream recording below:
featuring Yunnan Chen Episode 18, Belt and Road Podcast, September 30th 2019.
On episode 15, Erik Myxter-iino talks with Postdoctoral Fellow at the Global Development and Policy Center at Boston University Dr. Rebecca Ray. Rebecca is a co-author of a new report published in part by BU’s GDP center: China and the Amazon: Toward a Framework for Maximizing Benefits and Mitigating Risks of Infrastructure Development. In this episode, […]
featuring Xinyue Ma Episode 16, Belt and Road Podcast, September 2nd 2019.