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Regulatory or Market Pressures: What Promotes Environmental Grandstanding in Bangladesh?
Bangladesh has experienced high environmental degradation with rapid economic growth. In the first decade of industrialization, factories operated without environmental Read more
US Global Health Aid Policy and Family Planning in sub-Saharan Africa
In 2017, the Trump administration reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy (MCP) as the “Protecting Life in Global Health Read more
Funding Feasibility: Expanding Renewable Energy and Energy Access in the SADC Region with Regional Prefeasibility Facilities
By Tsitsi Musasike, Jiaqi Lu, Adjeikai Adjei, Kudakwashe Ndhlukula, Eugenia Masvikeni, Kevin P. Gallagher and Maipelo Stroh The 2024-2025 policy Read more
Interpersonal Violence Against Women and Maternity Care in Migori County, Kenya: Evidence From a Cross-Sectional Survey
In Kenya, interpersonal violence (IPV) is an issue of major public health concern, with 24 percent of Kenyan women reporting Read more
Evaluating Regional Prefeasibility Facilities: Expanding Renewable Energy and Energy Access in the SADC Region
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has one of the highest solar irradiation and great wind energy potential in sub-Saharan Read more
Going Green: Policy Opportunities and Challenges for Early Retirement of Overseas Chinese-Financed Coal Plants
Over the last two decades, Chinese banks and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have provided loans and technology for a large number Read more
Feeling the Stones: Chinese Development Finance to Latin America and the Caribbean, 2023
The Chinese Loans to Latin America and the Caribbean (CLLAC) Database, jointly managed by the Inter-American Dialogue and the Boston Read more
Bretton Woods Revisited: Creating a Monetary and Economic Order Fit for the 21st Century
Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference, the following institutions have prepared this statement: Institute for Economic Justice Read more
Debt, Development and Gender
Gender equality is a crucial component of successful development, yet austerity puts a disproportionate burden on women, increasing their economic Read more
The Offshore Dollar and US Policy
Dollar borrowing outside the United States has over generations grown to be very large, with US policy providing some inducement Read more