Events

Monday, March 20

• 12:30 PM
  
  Green Energy in Africa

  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
  
  2023 Human Capital Initiative Research Symposium

  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
  
  The 2023 Paul Streeten Distinguished Lecture in Global Development Policy: The Blurred Contours of a New International Financial Order

  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
  
  Bureaucratic Representation and Gender Mainstreaming in International Organizations: Evidence from the World Bank

  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
  
  Debt Sustainability and the Cost of Climate Inaction

  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
  
  International Monetary Fund and World Bank Governance Reform: Enabling the International System to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century

  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
  
  YSI Conference on Debt Sustainability

  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
  
  Guaranteeing Sustainable Development: Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery

  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
  
  Early Childhood Conditions and Adolescent Mental Health

  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
  
  The World that Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era

  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
  
  At a Crossroads: China's Post-Pandemic Economic Relations with Latin America and the Caribbean

  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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