Recent literature has emerged highlighting the importance of development banks for capitalist diversity in rich and developing countries alike. This literature merges the structuralist tradition in development studies and the political economy of development to look for analytical leverage outside the realm of conventional public financial institutions and a long-overlooked twin role of the banker […]
Each year, over 2.5 million children die within the first 28 days of birth, with three out of four of these neonatal deaths occurring in Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, many low- and middle-income countries are becoming increasingly exposed to adverse environmental stresses such as ambient fine particulate air pollution, which […]
By Julie Michelle Klinger LULI Working Paper, February 2019
In recent decades, the world’s largest development bank by total assets, the China Development Bank (CDB), has gained international reputation for lending massively to infrastructure projects inside and outside China. Although seemingly a typical story of state-led development, where the state channels preferential capital to selected projects, CDB, in fact, raises most of its funds […]
Energy is the lifeblood of the global economy, critical to all sectors of the economy including agriculture, transportation, waste collection, information technology and communications sources. In 2011, energy expenditures amounted to approximately 10 percent of the world gross domestic product (GDP), in which North America accounts for 20 percent, Europe for 25 percent and Japan […]
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 Boston University Global Development Policy Center partnered with the […]
By Julie Klinger, Joshua S.S. Muldavin, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Mladen Grgić, Juliet Lu, Oliver Schönweger, Kevin Woods, Michael Dwyer, and Thoumthone Vongvisouk. Territory, Politics, Governance, Volume 7, Issue 1, 2019.
By Julie Klinger and Joshua S.S. Muldavin. Territories, Politics, Governance, Volume 7, Issue 1, 2019.
Intellectual property (IP) provisions that were pursued by the United States (US) in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations generated widespread alarm. Subsequent leaks of composite drafts of the IP chapter showed ongoing resistance by most countries to many of the US proposals that would delay access to generic medicines. A journal article in Australian […]
In 2018, the United States (US), Canada and Mexico signed their ‘NAFTA 2.0’ agreement, referred to as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The new agreement was the first major trade treaty negotiated under the Trump administration’s unilateral imposition of tariffs to pressure other countries to accept provisions more favorable to US economic interests. The agreement […]