Events
All Topics (March 6 through May 31)
Wednesday, March 8
- 8:00 AM
The Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center manages a suite of five interactive public databases that collectively track hundreds of billions of dollars in Chinese loans and investment to
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Monday, March 20
- 12:30 PM
Why does Sub-Saharan Africa continue to lag behind the rest of the world in infrastructure investment, and what can African governments do to attract investment?
Sub-Saharan Africa faces an energy
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Friday, March 24
- 9:30 AM
Global developments over the past several years have had a profound impact on the biggest challenges in human development. Recent findings from Human Capital Initiative (HCI) experts have revealed widening
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Wednesday, March 29
- 4:00 PM
Developing and emerging market economies have, in many ways, benefited from global trade and financial flows, but while the economic center of gravity has shifted towards emerging market economies, the
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Wednesday, April 5
- 2:00 PM
The term “gender mainstreaming” refers to the practice of assessing the impacts that a policy or action will have on both women and men and weighing both sets of impacts
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Tuesday, April 11
- 2:30 PM
Research from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) emphasizes the high costs of delaying climate action and investments toward building resilience. With two-thirds of low-income countries already in or at high
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Saturday, April 15
- 10:00 AM
As the World commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights its promises recede as the world struggles to deal with the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic,
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Friday, April 28
- 1:00 PM
The YSI Conference on Debt Sustainability hosted at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center on 28-30 April 2023 will discuss the key conceptual and policy themes for sovereign debt
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Tuesday, May 2
- 9:00 AM
A debt crisis is emerging in the Global South at the precise moment when substantial investment is needed to meet shared climate and development goals. Yet, the G20 Common Framework
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Thursday, May 4
- 2:00 PM
Beginning in the 1970s, China introduced a series of reforms to liberalize the country’s economy by reducing barriers and restrictions on international trade. Prior to the reforms, the government had
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Thursday, May 11
- 10:00 AM
After the Second World War demolished the old order, a group of economists and policymakers from across Latin America imagined a new global economy and launched an intellectual movement that
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Wednesday, May 24
- 9:00 AM
According to the International Monetary Fund, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is experiencing continued low economic growth amid a stalling COVID-19 recovery, rampant inflation, and the knock-on effects of
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