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 GDP Center partnered with the United Nations Conference on […]
Janine Ferretti, Professor of the Practice of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, is in Madrid, Spain this week to present new research on climate change and development conducted by the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center. Ferretti will present GDP Center research showing that there is an investment opportunity upwards […]
Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently met with members of the Uganda National Population Council (NPC) to discuss the importance of the Demographic Dividend as it could apply to informing Ugandan policy and investment priorities that take account of the impact of […]
By Mahesh Karra HCI Working Paper 12, GDP Center, November 2019.
Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, presented preliminary findings at a meeting of the Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Safe Motherhood Initiative in Lilongwe, Malawi. The meeting was hosted by the Reproductive Health Directorate unit of the Malawi Ministry of Health. Karra presented […]
By Kevin P. Gallagher and Rebecca Ray Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Estudios China-México, November 2019.
On Thursday, November 7th, the GDP Center held a book launch for Sonia E. Rolland and David Trubek’s new book, Emerging Powers in the International Economic Order. The book launch consisted of an introduction of the book by Rolland, followed by commentary from Northeastern Professor, Dan Danielsen, and a video call from Richard Kozul-Wright, Director […]
Henrik Selin, Associate Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, published a recent Op-Ed on the challenges faced by the Paris Agreement after the withdrawal of the United States The Op-Ed, entitled “Can the Paris Agreement on climate change succeed without the US? 4 questions answered” was published in the The Conversation on November 12, 2019. From […]
Rebecca Ray, Postdoctoral Fellow at GEGI, was recently quote in a Clarin Politica article titled “La política internacional del kirchnerismo”. The article theories the future foreign policy of President-elect of the Argentina government, Alberto Fernandez, in trade relations with China. International experts indicate that relations between the two nations will increase, but that it will […]
Michele Ruta, Lead Economist in the Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment Global Practice of the World Bank Group, presented on the Belt and Road Initiative’s economics as part of the GDP Center’s GCI Colloquium. The presentation, titled “Belt and Road Economics: The social, environmental, and economics impacts,” began with an economic analysis of China’s BRI, looking at the […]