Category: Opinion Articles

House Democrats Must Include Generic Licensing Provisions in H.R. 3 in Order to Deliver a Meaningful Check on Big Pharma’s Greed

By Brook K. Baker Health GAP (October 16, 2019)

Gallagher in FT on the challenges Kristalina Georgieva faces in the IMF

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, published a recent Op-Ed on the reforms new IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva must implement as she faces the challenges of the IMF. Gallagher’s Op-Ed, entitled “Kristalina Georgieva’s IMF challenge” […]

The “Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019”: What’s Good, What’s Bad, and What Must be Improved

By Brook K. Baker Health GAP (September 20, 2019)

For the Least Developed Countries Revitalizing Multilateralism is Life or Death

Daniel Gay and Kevin P. Gallagher

Assessing China’s most comprehensive response to the “debt trap”: the Belt and Road Debt Sustainability Framework

By Xinyue Ma. Panda Paw Dragon Claw, July 2019 GDP Center Researcher Xinyue Ma writes a new op-ed in the Panda Paw Dragon Claw blog arguing that debt financing along the #BeltandRoad is as much a “trap” for debtors as it is for China.

IDB meets quietly in Guayaquil after China dispute

Rebecca Ray Op-Ed, Dialogo Chino, July 2019

The fierce urgency of now: Toward a new multilateralism

Kevin P. Gallagher, Director of the GDP Center, recently published an Op-Ed, with UNCTAD Division on Globalization and Development Strategies (GDS) Director Richard Kozul-Wright, on the need for multilateral trade organizations to align with Sustainable Development and Paris Agreement goals. The Op-Ed, titled “The fierce urgency of now: Toward a new multilateralism”, was published on the Brookings blog “Future […]