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, recently published an Op-Ed in response to United States President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs and tax hikes. Gallagher’s Op-Ed, entitled “How Trump Should Think About China,” was published in The Globalist […]
Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) seeks applicants for both pre-and post-doctoral fellowships to work on its Global China Initiative (GCI). In addition to receiving support for dissertation and post-dissertation work, fellows will participate in the China initiative’s research projects, seminar series, and policy engagement activities. Successful candidates will have demonstrated experience and […]
By Jacob Bor. “How Police Killings Lead to Poor Mental Health in the Black Community”, NPR (All Things Considered), June 24, 2018.
GDP Center Postdoctoral Fellow Rebecca Ray is in Quito this week to speak at a joint workshop held by DAR , International Senior Lawyers Project, and Flacso Ecuador. She delivered her presentation titled, “China en América Latina: Implicaciones socio-ambientales de inversión en infraestructura (China in Latin America: Social and Environmental Dimensions of Infrastructure Investment)” on June 6, 2018. She […]
Rachael Garrett, Associate Director of the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) at the GDP Center and Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University, recently published the article “Transparency and sustainability in the global commodity supply chains” in the multidisciplinary journal World Development. Text from the article: Despite an explosion of […]
Mahesh Karra, Associate Director of the GDP Center Human Capital Initiative (HCI) and Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently published a study in the multidisciplinary open access journal PLOS One. The study, entitled “Causal Language and Strength of Inference in Academic and Media Articles Shared […]
William Kring, Assistant Director of the GDP Center, attended the May 17-18 2018 Joint RFA Research Seminar workshop held in Cartagena, Colombia with featured speaker, Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) core faculty member, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University William Grimes. The Research Seminar was held […]
In 2018, Samuel Bazzi, a core faculty member of the Human Capital Initiative and Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University, was selected to be a Faculty Research Fellow of the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His first working paper with NBER titled “The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions” investigates the implications of […]
Mahesh Karra, Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative and Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently published a study in the journal Work, Employment and Society entitled “Reframing the Measurement of Women’s Work in the Sub-Saharan African Context.” The study was co-authored by Jocelyn […]
GDPC Director Kevin Gallagher published an Op-Ed in the Hill on May 17, 2018 titled “BUILD Act must build in US values for global development projects.” Gallagher comments on the lack of accountability and transparency in new legislation to create a development bank in the U.S. From the text of the Op-Ed: In a welcome move, the U.S. is now looking to […]