The world was unprepared for COVID-19, despite other recent coronavirus outbreaks and despite multiple warnings from the World Health Organization (WHO) and others. Although there was an initial sharing of research among scientists and an unleashing of significant public, charitable and private funding to develop, test and expand manufacturing capacity of new COVID-19-related medicines, vaccines […]
On April 22nd, 2021, members of the Boston University Global Development Policy Center’s Working Group on Trade and Access to Medicines called upon United States Trade Representative, Katherine Tai and the European Union Trade Commissioner, Valdis Dombrovskis with an urgent request to extend the transition period for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) under Article 66.1 of […]
By Michael Palmedo All United States Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) signed in the past 20 years have required trading partners to enact intellectual property (IP) laws that are stronger than those required by the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). In pharmaceutical markets, these “TRIPS-Plus” rules enhance the […]
By Maureen Heydt The 2020s were meant to be a decade of achieving shared sustainable development and climate goals, but instead began with a global pandemic, creating the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression and pushing upwards of 124 million people pushed into extreme poverty. 2020 was also one of the hottest years on […]
Climate and environmental breakdown demand urgent and coordinated action across borders. Such action requires new global norms and rules that allow national autonomy while converging toward shared goals to deliver rising living standards for all people without further damaging our ecosystems. This will only happen by confronting and contesting the furies of hyper-globalization: the beneficiaries […]
The Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center is a University-wide center in partnership with the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. The GDP Center’s mission is to advance policy-oriented research for financial stability, human well-being and environmental sustainability. The Global China Initiative (GCI) at the GDP Center maintains a suite of five interactive […]
The 65th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is currently taking place from March 15-26, 2021. Established in 1946, the CSW is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. During the Commission’s annual two-week session, representatives of UN Member States, […]
By Maria Santarelli As part of the Human Capital Spring Speaker Series, Dr. Kathleen Park was invited to speak about her forthcoming paper on migration status, labor stratification, and labor relations in the Arabian Gulf Region on February 17, 2021. Dr. Park is an Assistant Professor of Administrative Sciences at Boston University and has conducted […]
On Weds., Feb. 24, the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and the Inter-American Dialogue (IAD) hosted a webinar discussion to highlight new research on Chinese overseas development lending to both global energy projects and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The webinar covered updates to two different interactive databases, both with supporting policy materials: China-Latin […]
By Rebecca Ray, Zara C. Albright, and Kehan Wang 2020 was a possible inflection point in the economic relationship between Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and China. According to joint research from Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center and the Inter-American Dialogue, last year, for the first time since 2006, China didn’t offer any […]