As part of the Fall 2020 Global China Research Colloquium, Dr. Cecilia Springer will present on the environmental sustainability and China’s hydropower development in Southeast Asia. Dr. Springer is a Senior Researcher with the Global China Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center. STARTS: 9:00 am on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020 ENDS: 10:30 am on […]
On March 17, the Boston University Council approved a new policy for Visiting Faculty & Research Scholars, and on June 16 a related policy for Visiting Students. These policies will be applied to all new appointments starting on or after Tuesday, September 1. Policy highlights are as follows — Visiting Faculty & Research Scholars Criteria for Appointment: The […]
Many datasets involving human subjects contain sensitive information and require the protection of subject confidentiality. The protection of subject confidentiality can, however, limit access to the data, which in turn may limit the scope for valuable research. A common approach to addressing this issue is to create public use datasets that mask, or perturb, information […]
Join our dynamic team as a Policy Liaison at the GDP Center. Visit the BU Human Resources website to apply. POLICY LIAISON, Global Development Policy Center Tracking Code 1089 Job Description Reporting to the Director and Assistant Director of the Global Development Policy Center, the Policy Liaison for the Global Development Policy Center’s Global Economic […]
Kevin P. Gallagher, Director of the GDP Center and Professor of Global Development Policy, recently co-wrote an article calling on international financial institutions to adopt measures to give developing countries the space to fight and recover from covid-19. Gallagher co-wrote the article with Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies at the United Nations Conference […]
GDP Center affiliate faculty member Joseph Harris was recently featured in NPR’s “Universal Health Care Supports Thailand’s Coronavirus Strategy.” Posted on June 28, 2020, the podcast discusses how Thailand has been relatively successful at containing the spread of the coronavirus. To access the feature: https://n.pr/3ilysm8
Mahesh Karra, Associate Director of GDP Center’s Human Capital Initiative and Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School for Global Studies at Boston University, has been appointed as a Max Planck Sabbatical Award Laureate for 2020. The Max Planck Society launched the Max Planck Sabbatical Award in order to support scientists by awarding them research stays […]
Considerable polling has been conducted to better understand public opinion around the US government’s role in providing access to healthcare. Findings from these polls indicate much of the public consistently supports the idea that the federal government has a responsibility to ensure access to care. In response, policymakers have recently proposed plans that would extend […]
GCI Research Fellow Xinyue Ma and GDP Center Director Kevin P. Gallagher recently published an Op-Ed discussing China’s Overseas Development Finance in Global Energy. Overseas energy finance from China’s policy banks has been declining since 2017 due to a combination of demand and supply constraints. A rebound in 2020 is unlikely. To read more, access https://pandapawdragonclaw.blog/2020/05/24/losing-steam-chinas-overseas-development-finance-in-global-energy/.
In a new book published by the Asian Development Bank titled “Building the Future of Quality Infrastructure,” GDP Center Director Kevin P. Gallagher contributed two chapters on policy and institutional framework for delivering on sustainable infrastructure and on sustainable infrastructure to secure the natural capital of the Amazon. The book is published through a collaboration […]