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A Golden Opportunity: Selling a Small Share of the IMF’s Gold Reserves to Replenish the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) holds 90.5 million ounces of gold on its balance sheet, a legacy from its founding Read more

Webinar Summary – Climate, Development and International Financial Institutions: Perspectives from the Global South
By Samantha Igo On Tuesday, October 22, 2024, the Boston University Global Development Policy Center and Global Economy and Development Read more

Webinar Summary – The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet
By Yuan Liu On October 21, 2024, the Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) and BU Institute for Read more

‘Small’ Belt, ‘Beautiful’ Road: China’s Cautious Return to Global Energy Finance
A new update to the China’s Global Energy Finance (CGEF) Database, managed by the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, Read more

Seminar Summary — Reducing Emissions and Air Pollution from the Informal Sector: Evidence from Bangladesh
By Naomi Frim-Abrams On October 23, 2024, the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) hosted Nina Brooks, Core Faculty Member of HCI Read more

Lessons from the Past: The Impact of NAFTA on Mexico’s Export Specialization Pattern
By Praveena Bandara With Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing giants like Jetour announcing plans to establish EV assembly plants in Read more

Premature Specialization? The Export Re-specialization Pattern of Mexico
Since the early 1990s, Mexico has been on a path of increasing export re-specialization, the sequential shift in a country’s Read more

From Vicious to Virtuous: Understanding and Re-imagining the Relationships between Debt, Climate and Nature at COP16
By Rebecca Ray Representatives from governments and civil society from around the world are gathering in Cali, Colombia this month Read more

Stepping on the Scale: The G20 and Raising MDB Ambition for the 2030 Agenda and Beyond
By Maureen Heydt The global community is running out of time and falling behind on financing shared climate and development Read more

Energizing MDB Financing Capacity: Identifying and Filling Gaps to Raise Ambition for the 2030 Agenda and Beyond
The global community is running out of time and falling behind on financing shared climate and development goals, with Read more