Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at Boston University, delivered a Junior Fellow Faculty Presentation at the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering on November 7, 2018. Karra delivered a talk entitled “Family Planning […]
Rachael Garrett, Associate Director of the GDP Center’s Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) and Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University, published an Op-Ed in the Conversation this week, entitled, “Strict Amazon protections made Brazilian farmers more productive, new research shows.” This Op-Ed, complements her latest journal article published […]
GDP Center Researchers Fei Yuan & Kevin P. Gallagher recently published an article on development banks and climate financing in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in Ecological Economics with a correlating interactive database. Access the free article here until Saturday, November 17, 2018. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) faces a $110 billion-dollar annual gap […]
On October 11-12, 2018, the BU GDP Center’s Human Capital Initiative (HCI) co-hosted the Population Health Science Research Workshop (PHS) with BU’s School of Public Health. Prof. Jacob Bor, HCI core faculty, convened the workshop with School of Public Health Dean Sandro Galea. Economists, epidemiologists, and social scientists from schools across the country presented work-in-progress […]
The Land Use & Livelihoods Initiative hosted a book discussion at the Global Development Policy Center on Thursday, October 18 with the authors of La Batea. La Batea is the fruit of a six-year collaboration between photographer Stephen Ferry and his sister, anthropologist Elizabeth Emma Ferry. Their book documents the struggles of gold mining communities […]
Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) at the Global Development Policy Center, received a one-year grant for $100,000 this week from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for his new Program on Women’s Empowerment Research (POWER). The goal of POWER is […]
Many thanks to the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office for co-hosting fascinating @GDPC_BU workshop on regional surveillance, and to @Japanfoundation Center for Global Partnership for its financial support! @BUPardeeSchool pic.twitter.com/UuJwuKTfmq — William Grimes (@WilliamWGrimes) October 4, 2018 The workshop, entitled “Scaling Up and Leveraging Regional Surveillance”, was sponsored by Boston University’s Global Development Policy (GDP) Center, the […]
In just over a decade Chinese policy banks have emerged as global leaders in development finance in general and in finance for energy projects in developing country governments in particular. According to the China’s Global Energy Finance Database, between 2000 and 2017, the China Development Bank (CDB) and China Export-Import Bank (CHEXIM) provided $225.75 billion in […]
Mahesh Karra, Associate Director of the Global Development Policy Center’s Human Capital Initiative (HCI) and Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has been announced as a Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing 2018 Junior Faculty Fellow. The Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellows program was established […]
GDP Center Post-doctoral Fellow Rebecca Ray presented this week (September 24-27, 2018) at the 28th annual Coloquio Mexicano de Economía Matemática y Econometría (Mexican Colloquium on Mathematical Economics and Econometrics) hosted by the International Economics department of the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua in Hidalgo de Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico. She gave a plenary lecture, entitled “China […]