Thank you to all who braved the rain for our inaugural open house event at Boston University, yesterday evening, on September 25, 2018. Our featured speaker Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies Dean Adil Najam presented as the lead author on the latest Pakistan National Human Development Report (NHDR) on Youth. Kevin Gallagher, Director of […]
The Pardee School faculty is dedicated to improving the human condition through rigorous interdisciplinary education, path-breaking research and innovative initiatives to make a real-world difference in the critical challenges humanity faces. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. To apply, please follow the link below which will lead you to full details for the position. Professor of the […]
BU Today recently highlighted the experiences of our 2018 Summer in the Field Fellows, who spent the summer conducting field research related to our mission to advance policy-oriented research for financial stability, human well-being, and environmental sustainability across the globe. This is the inaugural year of our Summer in the Field Program. As a core part of our mission, we strive to provide […]
One student spent the summer researching family planning in rural India, another studied job wages on an Indonesian island, and a third designed an app to aid midwives in Myanmar. Meet the inaugural class of the BU Global Development Policy (GDP) Center Summer in the Field Fellows. The trio of grad students—Federico Pisani (GRS’20), Gedeon Lim […]
Kevin P. Gallagher, Director of the Global Development Policy Center and Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has been appointed as a member of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at the United Nations. The CDP members […]
Kevin P. Gallagher, Director of the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University, was interviewed for a recent article on China’s economic influence in Latin America. Gallagher was quoted in a July 2018 article in The New York Times, entitled “From a Space Station in Argentina, China Expands Its Reach in Latin America.” The article is nominally about the Chinese space […]
The international community needs to annually mobilize trillions of dollars in order to close infrastructure gaps and meet the goals and commitments of the Group of 20 (G20) and the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, (SDGs) and to date, private sector and national governments are falling far short of financing these goals. Development finance institutions […]
#LoÚltimo Video capta el momento exacto de la emergencia en otro túnel de Hidroituango pic.twitter.com/9W2Qp1Vkgv — Noticias Caracol (@NCAntioquia) May 16, 2018 Rebecca Ray, a post-doctoral scholar at the GDP Center, published an Op-Ed, entitled “Colombia megadam collapse highlights need for comprehensive standards,” in response to the collapse of the Ituango dam (Hidroituango) this summer. […]
Kevin Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy and Director of the Global Development Policy Center at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was quoted in a recent article on the economic relationship between China and Mexico. Gallagher was quoted in a July 5, 2018 article in Mexico Daily News entitled “Three Reasons Why It’s Time […]
Kevin P. Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Director of the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University, published his second Op-Ed this week in response to United States President Donald Trump’s recent tariff and trade negotiations. Gallagher anticipates the consequences these decisions have on a global scale. The Op-Ed, entitled […]