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Gallagher Speaks on CDP Panel on Multilateralism

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, spoke as part of a March 12, 2019 panel organized by the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at the United Nations.  Gallagher was joined […]

In Memoriam: Paul Streeten (1917-2019)

By: Peter Doeringer, Kevin P. Gallagher, Dilip Mookherjee and Gus Papanek Paul Streeten, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Boston University, passed away at the age of 101 at his home in Princeton, New Jersey on January 6, 2019. He was born in Austria in 1917, escaped to the UK at the start of the Second […]

JOB OPENING: Research Assistant for the Renewable Energy Targets Project

RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION: Renewable Energy Targets, a Global Estimate We are seeking a research assistant to join the Boston University Global Development Policy Center for the project Renewable Energy Targets, a Global Estimate. Project Description: The project Renewable Energy Targets, a Global Estimate seeks to quantify national renewable energy targets in the power sector globally, both in […]

GDP Center Releases 2019 China’s Global Energy Finance (CGEF) Database & Policy Brief

In 2018, overseas energy financing by China’s two global policy banks—the China Development Bank (CDB) and the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM) —was at its lowest level since 2013. The two global policy banks provided approximately $8.62 billion to foreign countries in financing for energy sector activity overseas in 2018, bringing the total since 2000 […]

GDP Center Hosts T20 Workshop and Public Panel

On February 28, 2019, the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a T20 workshop entitled ‘Toward G-20 Principles for International Monetary Fund (IMF) Reform.’  The T-20 is an official group of parallel global ‘think tanks’ to the G20 process. Japan hosts the 2019 G20 Summit and has formed a T20 Task Force on the International Financial Architecture […]

China-Latin America Finance Database 2019

The Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America and the World program and the Global China Initiative at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP) estimate that China’s policy banks, China Development Bank and China Eximbank, issued roughly $7.7 billion in loans to LAC governments and state-owned firms in 2018. See the newly-updated Dialogue-GDP Center China-Latin America Finance Database and […]

2019 China-Latin America Economic Bulletin

These are the findings of the 2019 China-Latin America Economic Bulletin, which brings together the most important annual trends for this burgeoning relationship in terms of trade, finance, and investment. In 2018, China-Latin America cooperation continued to deepen, though Chinese finance and investment in the region appears to have been relatively cautious in nature. These are […]

Hear What Our 2018 Fellows Have to Say About Summer in the Field

Take Your Research Abroad This Summer with 2019 Summer in the Field Fellowship “The Summer in the Field Program creates the opportunity, frame, and process through which students hungry for new experiences can easily and safely access them,” said Federico Pisani, an MA candidate at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and the […]

Capital Openness and Income Inequality: Smooth Sailing or Troubled Waters

In recent decades, rising inequalities in national income and wealth have been accompanied by inequality in living standards between developed and developing countries. A new book, “International Policy Rules and Inequality: Implications for Global Economic Governance” edited by Jose Antonio Ocampo, analyzes the question: to what extent are the rules that govern the global economy […]