Lucy Hornby, a 2020 Harvard Neiman Fellow for Journalism and former Deputy Bureau Chief of the Financial Times in Beijing, presented “China’s BRI – A New Colonialism” to a crowd of BU faculty and students and fellow Neiman scholars on Monday, November 11th. Hornby presented a history of the Belt and Road Initiative in its initial stages, formerly […]
Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) established a working group of global scholars to identify the state of the current research, existing gaps in the data, and establishing a policy-oriented research agenda on trade treaties and access to medicines. The working group’s NEW report Rethinking Trade Treaties and Access to Medicines: Toward a Policy-Oriented Research Agenda synthesizes the state of […]
Gregory T. Chin, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, presented as part of the GDP Center’s Global China Research Colloquium on Monday, November 4th to a crowd of BU faculty, students, and staff. In his presentation, titled “The AIIB: Early Development, Innovations and Future Priorities,” Chin explained the reasoning for the […]
Kevin P. Gallagher, Director of the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, published a recent Op-Ed with Matías Vernengo of Bucknell University on the IMF’s needed change of course regarding Argentina. The Op-Ed, entitled “The IMF’s second chance in Argentina” was published in the […]
Jorge Heine, research professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, commented on the cancellation of the APEC summit and COP25 climate meeting in Chile. The Op-Ed, entitled “Chilean ex-ambassador: cancellation of APEC an unfortunate policy”, and interview aired on October 30, 2019. From the text of the Op-Ed: Amid weeks-long protests, the Chilean government announced […]
Kevin Gallagher, Director of the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, has been appointed co-chair of a special policy study on “Greening the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).” The study is sponsored by the China Council for International Cooperation and Development (CCICED), at China’s Ministry […]
The Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a lecture on Friday, October 18, 2019 with the President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Jin Liqun on multilateral approaches to development. For photos and more information about the talk, click here. Watch the live stream recording below:
Kevin Gallagher, Director of the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, published a recent Op-Ed on the reforms new IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva must implement as she faces the challenges of the IMF. Gallagher’s Op-Ed, entitled “Kristalina Georgieva’s IMF challenge” […]
What a difference a year makes. Last year at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, there was much discussion of the ‘brighter prospects’ of synchronized growth in the world economy. This year, as Kristalina Georgieva takes the helm as the new managing director of the IMF, there is widespread concern […]
By Caroline Flammer GEGI Working Paper 33, October 2019.