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GDP Center hosts 2nd Annual Open House: Human Capital & Development

Thank you to all who joined us for our 2nd Annual Open House: Human Capital & Development at Boston University on Friday evening, September 20, 2019. Our core faculty of the newly launched Human Capital Initiative (HCI),  Mahesh Karra, Patricia Cortes, Jacob Bor, Samuel Bazzi, and Rachel Brulé, presented their latest research and spoke about […]

Garrett in Mongabay on Deforestation Programs in the Amazon

Rachael Garrett, assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University and Associate Director of the Global Development Policy Center’s Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative, recently commented on the challenges facing programs combating Deforestation.  Garrett was quoted in a Mongabay article on September 3, 2019 titled “Giant Norway pension fund weighs Brazil divestment over Amazon deforestation”.  From […]

Gallagher Teaches UNCTAD Summer School Course

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, taught a recent United Nations Conference on Trade and Development summer school course in Geneva, Switzerland on the crisis of multilateralism.  The school, which is co-sponsored with the Institute for New Economic Thinking, […]

The Co-Benefits of Stakeholder Engagement: Environmental and Social Safeguards, Infrastructure Investment, and Deforestation in the Andean Amazon, 2000-2015

Over the last 15 years, South America’s Western Andean nations have adopted some of the world’s most ambitious environmental and social protections surrounding infrastructure investment, most notably the right to prior consultation for affected indigenous communities. These reforms have been matched by the adoption of equally ambitious environmental and social safeguards (ESS) by the international […]

Lagarde’s resigning brings opportunity to reform IMF

Kevin P. Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and director of the Global Development Policy Center, and Haihong Gao of the Institute for World Economics and Politics (IWEP) at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, cited in the Global Times. 

Ray in Dialago Chino on concerns over construction of the Rurrenabaque-Riberalta highway across the Bolivian Amazon

Rebecca Ray, Postdoctoral Fellow at GEGI at Boston University, was interviewed for a recent article on the rising concerns on the impact of the Rurrenabaque-Riberalta highway construction bisecting the Bolivian Amazon. Ray was interviewed for a August 27, 2019 article in Dialago Chino entitled “Bolivian Amazon struggles to accommodate “country’s most contentious” road” From the text of […]

The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest

Rachel Garrett,Assistant Professor of the Human Dimensions of Global Change in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University, was interviewed for a recent article on the factors driving deforestation in the Amazon . Garrett was interviewed for a August 23, 2019 article in The Conversation entitled “The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest” From […]