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, has published a chapter on global inequality in a new book by Columbia University Press. The chapter, “Capital Openness and Income Inequality: Smooth Sailing or Troubled Waters,” is co-authored with Guillermo Lagarda and […]
GDP Center Faculty Steering Committee Member Caroline Flammer is co-organizing the upcoming United Nation’s Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Academic Network Conference, which runs alongside PRI in Person, the largest global conference on responsible investment. On behalf of Dr. Caroline Flammer, we are delighted to share the call for papers for the eleventh PRI Academic Network […]
Henrik Selin, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and GDP Center Core Faculty Member, co-wrote a recent Op-Ed examining carbon emissions from the cargo ships used in international shipping. Selin co-wrote the Op-Ed with GDP Center Administrator Rebecca Cowing. The Op-Ed, entitled “Cargo Ships […]
GDP Center Researchers Miquel Muñoz Cabré, Kevin P. Gallagher, and Zhongshu Li recently published an article on renewable energy and opportunities for Chinese overseas investment in China & World Economy (CWE) with a new correlating interactive database. According to the authors, there are three reasons that China is uniquely poised to lead renewable energy global investments: China’s […]
With China poised to invest $1-4 trillion in massive infrastructure and energy projects across the globe over the next decade, policy-oriented research and monitoring is necessary to maximize the potential as well as mitigate the risks of the largest level of public investment since the post-World War II Marshall Plan. The Boston University Global Development […]
All eyes turn to Argentina, the host of this year’s G20 Summit, as leaders from the 19 biggest economies around the world and the European Union prepare to meet on Thursday and Friday. Cumulatively, these nations account for 85% of the world GDP and ⅔ of the world population. This comes in succession of the […]
Anne Short Gianotti, Associate Director of the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) at the GDP Center and Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University, recently published the article “Pursuing productivity gains and risk reduction in a multi-hazard landscape: A case study from eastern Uganda” in the journal Land Use Policy. […]
Mahesh Karra, Associate Director of the Global Development Policy Center Human Capital Initiative (HCI) and Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, attended the 2018 International Conference on Family Planning held in Kigali, Rwanda from November 12-15, 2018. Dr. Karra led a session on […]
Projects implemented by multilateral development banks (MDBs) seek to support countries’ economic and social development. In most cases, aid is provided for investment projects that support development or implementation of medium-term economic and legal reforms. The literature on the effectiveness of these development projects has traditionally focused on ex-post analysis. While this is the appropriate […]
To download the report and accompanying blog piece from the WRI web page In a new report with the Washington-based World Resources Institute (WRI), researchers at the Global Development Policy Center find that China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is yet to be aligned with the low-carbon priorities included in BRI countries’ commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement. […]