Can China implement debt-for-nature and debt-for-climate swaps to protect the environment and reduce global debt? Join Boston University’s Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and special guests Carlos Larrea and Shuang Li for a webinar discussion and interactive launch on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. As the triple crises of climate change, debt and COVID-19 converge and […]
In the new book “Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon,” authors Rebecca Ray, Kevin P. Gallagher, and Cynthia A. Sanborn explore what development banks, governments, and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon, and the pressures of surging infrastructure and the boom […]
By Yinan Zhang China has implemented a large fiscal stimulus in 2020 to counter the negative economic impact of COVID-19. Up to September 2020, the fiscal support amounted to $707 billion (roughly 4.8 trillion renminbi) through spending and revenue measures (above-the-line (ATL) measures) and another $198 billion in liquidity support. The health-sector related spending accounts […]
By Katie Gallogly-Swan On Friday, December 11, the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center co-hosted a webinar with the South Centre on ‘Guaranteeing Access to Medicines: Reforming Trade and Investment Treaties in the COVID-19 Era,’ featuring Carlos Correa, Executive Director of the South Centre; Mustaqeem de Gama, Counsellor at the South Africa World Trade Organization (WTO) […]
By Maria Santarelli On Friday December 11, the Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) hosted a webinar to launch the new book from Rachel Brulé, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, “Women, Power, and Property: the Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India.” The book investigates […]
By Yinan Zhang In the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak, China’s economic growth dipped into negative territory with a year-on-year growth of -6.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020, compared to growth rates above 6 percent in previous years. As the epidemic got under control within China and support measures were deployed allowing the […]
By Maria Santarelli It is widely known that pregnancy is a critical time in a person’s life, but less frequently acknowledged is the importance of adequate timing in between pregnancies. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a woman should wait at least 24 months after a live birth before getting pregnant again. Poorly spaced […]
In a new policy brief, Kevin P. Gallagher, William N. Kring, Barbara Fritz and Laurissa Mühlich discuss the precarious state of the global financial system and introduce a new interactive database to track short-term crisis finance. The world economy has gone into a free fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, policy-makers […]
Chinese policy banks provided close to half a trillion dollars in development finance to foreign governments from 2008—2019. This new interactive database allows users to examine the geolocation of China’s overseas development projects and to explore their proximity to indigenous people’s lands, critical habitats, and national protected areas. The interactive China’s Overseas Development Finance Database […]
The Capstone Course on Global Development brings together participants of M.A. Global Development Programs from the Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies and the Department of Economics to develop skills in development project work. The Capstone Course combines theoretical lectures with student-led research on real-world challenges. A group of student researchers investigated migration and […]