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 […]
Birth spacing, or the length of time women wait after giving birth before becoming pregnant again, has important implications for both maternal and child health. In particular, birth intervals markedly shorter or longer than the recommended minimum of three years are associated with increased risk of maternal and child mortality and morbidity. Most of the […]
The GDP Center is grateful to announce that its’ Global China Initiative has received a new grant Carnegie Corporation of New York. This generous grant will allow GCI to expand its research, policy dialogues, and fellowship program on China and international economic institutions. Kevin Gallagher, Director of the GDP Center and Principal Investigator on the grant, notes […]
The GDP Center and UNCTAD welcome you to join us for a webinar on the economic response to the COVID-19 crisis. The panel features the following guests: Nelson Barbosa, Former Finance Minister of Brazil Stephanie Blankenburg, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, UNAIDS Haihong Gao, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute for World […]
Nitsan Chorev joined the Global Development Policy Center this week to start off the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) Speaker Series. Speaking about her latest book, “Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa,” the Brown University Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International Studies spoke about the relationship between […]
Dr. Susan Holcombe joined the Global Development Policy Center this week to discuss the subject of her latest co-edited volume, Practicing Development: Upending Assumptions for Positive Change. Dr. Holcombe, a Professor Emerita of the Practice at Brandeis University, said she was inspired to work on the book after realizing that narratives from the global north dominated […]
Cecilia Han Springer joined the Global Development Policy Center this past Wednesday to kick off the GDP Center’s Global China Initiative Speaker Series. In a talk titled “Exceptional Investments: Analyzing the Relative Environmental Performance of China’s Overseas Coal Plants,” Han Springer shared her work analyzing the energy sector, the portion of China’s One Belt One […]
Join our dynamic team as the Assistant Director of Finance and Administration at the GDP Center. Visit the BU Human Resources website to apply: http://bit.ly/2RdvKn2 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION, Global Development Policy Center Job Description Reporting to the director and assistant director of the Global Development Policy Center, the Assistant Director, Finance and Administration manages […]