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International Investment Pushes Past and Present, Part 3: Jubilee-Era Debt Relief
May 2026
What New Data Reveals About China-Africa Economic Ties
May 2026
China-Africa Economic Bulletin, 2026 Edition
May 2026
Event Summary: What Time Is It? A Cross-Cutting Conference on Historical Perspectives and Global Governance Reform
May 2026
How Can China’s Debt Sustainability Analysis Better Serve Global South’s Development Goals?
May 2026
Debt Sustainability with Chinese Characteristics: Norm Convergence and Its Limits in Sovereign Lending
May 2026
GDP Center Signs Partnership Agreement with Shanghai University of International Business and Economics
May 2026
Later Entrance into Primary School May Improve Education, Health and Economic Outcomes – Evidence from Lesotho
May 2026
Why Competitive Politics Can Pull Development Finance Away from Need
May 2026
Commodity-Price-Linked Bonds: Enhancing Debt Resilience in Commodity-Dependent Economies
April 2026
Disentangling Decision-Making: Chinese Infrastructure Finance in Africa
April 2026
Resurgence to Retirement: Global Insights on Transitioning Away from Coal
April 2026
From Paradigm Maintenance to Paradigm Shift: A Mood Change on Industrial Policy
April 2026
Impact in Action: GDP Center at the 2026 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings
April 2026
Climate Change and External Fragility: Lifeline Fund as a Financial Arrangement for V20 Countries
April 2026
Productive Finance for the Belt and Road Initiative: Reexamining China’s Debt Sustainability Framework
April 2026
Adjustment without Accumulation: Evidence on Capital Formation from IMF Programs
April 2026
Toward More Effective IMF Programs: Learning from the Evidence on Conditionality
April 2026
Cutting Trees to Balance Budgets: International Monetary Fund Programs are Associated with Increased Deforestation
April 2026
Patient Capital, Long-Term Orientation and Global Imbalances: A Rebuttal
March 2026
Greening the Steel and Cement Used in China’s Global Infrastructure Projects
March 2026
Weighing In: How Much Steel and Cement Go Into China’s Global Infrastructure Projects?
March 2026
Rising oil prices and developing country debt – the next shock is already here
March 2026
Zimbabwe’s Lithium Pivot: Promises and Pitfalls of Mining
March 2026
Leveraging Transition Mineral Extraction for Zimbabwe’s Socioeconomic Development: The Case of Lithium
March 2026
Carta de 220 economistas y juristas al presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, instando a tomar medidas sobre el arbitraje de inversión
March 2026
Letter from 220 Economists and Legal Scholars to Colombian President Gustavo Petro Calling for Action on ISDS
March 2026
Informality Is Africa’s Reality, And Its Policy Challenge: Takeaways from the ISHi – Africa Task Force
March 2026
From Resource Curse to Renewable Futures? Chinese Investment and a Just Transition in Latin America
March 2026
Can China Support a Just Energy Transition in Latin America? Policy Insights from a Working Paper Series
March 2026
Request for Proposals: Human Capital Initiative PhD Summer Fieldwork Fellowships
March 2026
Power Projects Face Climate “Double Whammy”
March 2026
Beyond Debt Reprofiling: China’s Role in Global South Development
March 2026
Geopolitics, Domestic Political Economy and the Rise of Localization Policies in the Global EV Industry
February 2026
Is Geopolitics Opening New Doors for EV Localization Worldwide?
February 2026
International Investment Pushes Past and Present, Part 2: South Korea
February 2026
The Human Capital Initiative Announces the Winners of the 2026 Collaborative Grant Award
February 2026
Development Finance at a Crossroads: Workshop Summary
February 2026
Global Financial Safety Net Tracker Database Methodology Guidebook, 2026
January 2026
USMCA and the Need for a “Second Story” of Mexican Wages and Household Incomes
January 2026
Geopolitics on the Rise, IMF on the Decline: Insights from the Updated Global Financial Safety Net Tracker
January 2026
What the EU’s New Compulsory Licensing Policy Signals for Global Health Governance and Flexibilities for Middle-Income Countries
January 2026
This Decade’s Best Chance to Get Debt Sustainability Right: Necessary Changes in the Review of the Debt Sustainability Framework for Low-Income Countries
January 2026
Carbon Price Equivalents of Non-Pricing Mitigation Policies: A Study of China
December 2025
Why Development Finance Falls Short—and How It Can Better Serve the Global South
December 2025
International Investment Pushes Past and Present, Part 1: The Marshall Plan
December 2025
Event Summary: ‘Small Island States in an Uncertain Global Economy’ – Reflections from a Conversation with the Prime Minister of Cabo Verde
December 2025
Green Growth or Commodity Dependence? The LAC-China Relationship in 2025
December 2025
Event Summary: ‘A Proposal for a Climate Bargain Based on Local Climate Damages’
December 2025
Can Carbon Taxes Close Latin America and the Caribbean’s Climate Finance Gap?
December 2025
China-Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Bulletin, 2025 Edition
November 2025
How Has China Helped the Green Transformation Along the Belt and Road: Four Channels
November 2025
Greening the Belt and Road with Four Underlying Mechanisms
November 2025
International Investment Pushes Past and Present: Introducing the Blog Series
November 2025
Chart of the Week: Debt Distress: The Hidden Barrier to Scaling Up Adaptation Finance
November 2025
How We Track China’s Overseas Development Finance: A Guide to GDP Center’s Four Flagship Databases
November 2025
Summer in the Field: Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Equity-Based Incentives in Performance-Based Financing (PBF) for Improved Maternal and Child Health Outcomes in Rwanda
November 2025
Summer in the Field: How Does Climate Change Affect Economic Productivity? A Global Perspective from 2000-2017
November 2025
Redefining Models for Global Green Cooperation: Lessons from China’s Emerging Partnerships
November 2025
Report on Compulsory Licensing Provisions in the National Patent Legislation of 15 Middle-Income Countries: A Content Analysis and Recommendations
November 2025
Selective Engagement and Strategic Retooling: Chinese Loans to Africa Database, 2000–2024
November 2025
Chart of the Week: How Much Should Multilateral Development Banks Contribute to the Baku to Belém Roadmap to $1.3 Trillion?
November 2025
The Land Gap: How Conservation Can Make Sovereign Debt Crises Less Common
November 2025
Defunding the Amazon: Mapping ISDS Risk from the Oil and Gas Sector in Amazonian Countries
November 2025
Desvendando o “Pecado Digital”: ForexTech e as Novas Fronteiras da Volatilidade Cambial
November 2025
Decoding “Digital Sin”: ForexTech and the New Frontiers of Currency Instability
November 2025
Financial Subordination Goes Digital: Assessing the Drivers of Brazil’s Exchange Rate Instability
November 2025
Is Carbon Tax the Answer to Climate Change Investment Needs in Latin America and the Caribbean?
November 2025
Celebrating the Working Group on Trade Treaties and Access to Medicines
November 2025
Meet the 2025 Global China Fellows
October 2025
Bangladesh’s Climate Risks and External Debt Tightrope: Safeguarding Sustainability Amid Transition
October 2025
Navigating Debt, Development And Disasters: Making Debt Sustainability Analyses Work for Bangladesh
October 2025
GDP Center Round-Up: 2025 International Monetary Fund/World Bank Group Annual Meetings
October 2025
Book Launch: China and the Global Economic Order
October 2025
Reviving Chinese Development Finance in the Global South
October 2025
The Road to 2030: What Role for Chinese Development Finance?
October 2025
Putting Development First: Climate Change and the International Financial Architecture
October 2025
IMF Lending Returns to Low Levels While the PBOC Continues as the Largest Provider of Currency Swaps: Insights from the Updated Global Financial Safety Net Tracker
September 2025
Green Developmental Statecraft: The International Dimension of Green Structural Transformation in the Global South
September 2025
Journal of Globalization and Development Special Issue – Task Force on Climate, Development and the IMF Round-Up
September 2025
Still Constraining Climate Policy: Assessing the Climate-Related Industrial Policy Landscape in Five Figures
September 2025
Green Industrial Policies: Opportunities and Obstacles in the Global Trade and Investment Regime
September 2025
The Role of Climate-Positive Policies in Unlocking Finance for Inclusive Green Industrialization in Africa
September 2025
The Impact of Climate-Related Investments on Fiscal and Debt Sustainability Across Africa
September 2025
Global Development Policy Center – Annual Report 2025
September 2025
Call for Papers: The Role of Special Drawing Rights for Global Stability and Sustainable Economic Transformation
August 2025
Reviving the Past or Risking the Future? Chinese-Financed Hydropower and the Fate of “Dinosaur Dams”
August 2025
Dinosaur Dams: The Historical Origins of Chinese Hydroelectric Projects and Their Environmental Implications
August 2025
India’s Climate Finance Requirements — Steel and Cement Overwhelm Power
August 2025
India’s Climate Finance Requirements: An Assessment
August 2025
V20 Debt Review: An Account of Debt in the Vulnerable Group of 20 — 3rd Edition
July 2025
GDP Center Round-up: 4th International Conference on Financing for Development
June 2025
Investing in Climate and Development: The Evolving Role of the International Financial and Tax Architectures
June 2025
Are Multilateral Development Banks Big Enough, and How Can We Tell?
June 2025
Multilateral Development Banks and Financing for Development: The Role of Resource Needs Reviews
June 2025
The Jubilee Report: A Blueprint for Tackling the Debt and Development Crises and Creating the Financial Foundations for a Sustainable People-Centered Global Economy
June 2025
Lighting Up Africa: Chinese Development Finance’s Impact on Energy Poverty
June 2025
Empowering Africa: The Impact of China’s Power Finance on Energy Poverty
June 2025
FAQs: What Can be Expected from the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development?
June 2025
The Cost of Inaction: Explaining Africa’s Debt Distress in 10 Charts — and Five Fixes for the G20
June 2025
Global Financial Safety Net Tracker Database Methodology Guidebook, 2025
June 2025
Peer-to-Peer Lending: China’s Overseas Development Finance Pivots to National and Regional Development Banks
June 2025
Development Finance and Critical Minerals: Opportunities for Supporting Sustainability and Inclusion through Patient Capital
June 2025
Excess US Deaths Before, During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
June 2025
How Mexico Can Design a USMCA Where Development Matters
June 2025
Cómo Puede México Formular un T-MEC Donde el Desarrollo También Cuenta
June 2025
Norms and Troubled Sovereign International Debt
May 2025
The Role of Ideas in Economic Policy: The Global Sovereign Debt Regime
May 2025
Debt Sustainability Analysis as if Development Really Mattered
May 2025
Ending the Era of Investor-State Dispute Settlement
May 2025
Reducing Emissions and Air Pollution from Informal Brick Kilns: Evidence from Bangladesh
May 2025
Diverting Development: The G20 and External Debt Service Burden in Africa
May 2025
Indigenous Languages and the Law: Exploring New Directions in Deportation History in Latin America – Q&A With Rachel Nolan
May 2025
Seminar Summary – The Inclusion Trap: Evidence from the Elite Civil Service
May 2025
Los cinco temas clave en el IV Foro China-CELAC
May 2025
Five Topics to Watch at the Fourth China-CELAC Forum
May 2025
Capitalizing on Low-Carbon Technology Trade for Developing Countries
May 2025
Developing Countries Locked Out of Low-Carbon Technology Trade
May 2025
Statement on the Passing of Pope Francis and His Legacy on Sovereign Debt
April 2025
No New Coal: A Shift in the Composition of China’s Overseas Power Plant Portfolio?
April 2025
PBOC Swap Lines and the IMF in the Global Financial Architecture: Competition or Cooperation?
April 2025
The Lender of First Resort? Chinese Swap Lines, the IMF and the Changing International Financial Architecture
April 2025
10 Charts to Illustrate a Structuralist Perspective of Developing Economies’ Debt
April 2025
Balance of Payments and Economic Policy in Developing Economies
April 2025
GDP Center Round-up: 2025 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings
April 2025
Back to the Future: How the Pre-OECD Global Tax Landscape Offers Lessons for Today
April 2025
The IMF’s 17th General Review of Quotas Needs a New Formula to Deliver on Development
April 2025
A Challenging Imperative: IMF Reform, the 17th Quota Review and Increasing Voice and Representation for Developing Countries
April 2025
What Role for the Resilience and Sustainability Trust in Creating Fiscal Space for Climate Vulnerable Countries?
April 2025
Strengthening the International Monetary Fund’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust to Promote a Just, Global Climate Transition: Early Evidence from Barbados and Jamaica
April 2025
Disaster-Triggered Financing Mechanisms Must Provide More Relief for Myanmar
April 2025
The Role of Government Guidance Funds in Financing Innovation in China
April 2025
Financing Technological Innovation in China: Neo-developmental Financial Statecraft through Government Guidance Funds
April 2025
The International Financial Architecture and Sustainable Prosperity
March 2025
Scaling Up Funding and Reforming Financial Institutions
March 2025
Seminar Summary – Queering Repression: How the Global Crackdown on Civil Society Affects LGBT+ NGO Foundings
March 2025
10 Ways Financing for Development has Changed in 10 years
March 2025
Mapping Global Financial Risks Under Climate Change
March 2025
Unmined Potential? Opportunities for Development Finance to Support Sustainability and Inclusion in Transition Mineral Supply Chains
March 2025
Digging Deeper: How Development Finance Can Unearth Sustainability in Transition Mineral Supply Chains
March 2025
Beyond Debt: The Case for Public Sector Net Worth
March 2025
Unlocking Synergies Between Multilateral Development Banks and National Development Banks
February 2025
Blending from the Ground Up: Multilateral and National Development Bank Collaboration to Scale Climate Finance
February 2025
The Potential Role of Panda Bonds in Development Finance
February 2025
What is in the Financing for Development Zero Draft, and What Does It Mean for Global Economic Governance Reform?
January 2025
The Political Economy of Variations in Energy Debt Financing by Two Chinese Policy Banks in Africa
January 2025
The Mosaic of Energy Debt Financing from Chinese Policy Banks in Africa: How and Why One Is Greener than the Other
January 2025
Five Realistic Goals for Global Economic Governance in 2025
December 2024
Around the Halls: A Year in Review and Look Ahead to 2025
December 2024
Advancing Climate Policy at the IMF
December 2024
Webinar Summary: China’s Global Energy Finance Database – Data Update, 2000-2023
December 2024
A Roadmap for Unlocking the Potential of Multilateral Development Banks Exists – and the G20 Just Endorsed It
December 2024
Seminar Summary – Disease, Disparities, and Development: Evidence from Chagas Disease Control in Brazil
December 2024
Webinar Summary – Feminism in Public Debt: A Human Rights Approach
December 2024
Acting in Parallel on Debt and Development before It is Too Costly and Too Late
November 2024
A One United Nations for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
November 2024
China’s Creditor Diversification in Africa: Impacts and Challenges of Infrastructure Debt-Financing by Chinese Commercial Creditors
November 2024
Better Understanding the Renminbi’s Internationalization
November 2024
Currency Internationalization, Payment Infrastructures and Central Banks: An Institutional Analysis of Renminbi Internationalization
November 2024
Political Coalitions for the Energy Transition? How Foreign Companies are Shaping Renewable Energy Policymaking in the Global South
November 2024
Chasing the Sun: The Political Economy of Solar Investment in the Global South
November 2024
FAQs: The Chinese Loans to Africa Database
November 2024
GDP Center Round-Up: 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29)
November 2024
A Golden Opportunity: Selling a Small Share of the IMF’s Gold Reserves to Replenish the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust
November 2024
Webinar Summary – Climate, Development and International Financial Institutions: Perspectives from the Global South
November 2024
Webinar Summary – The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet
November 2024
‘Small’ Belt, ‘Beautiful’ Road: China’s Cautious Return to Global Energy Finance
November 2024
Seminar Summary — Reducing Emissions and Air Pollution from the Informal Sector: Evidence from Bangladesh
October 2024
Lessons from the Past: The Impact of NAFTA on Mexico’s Export Specialization Pattern
October 2024
Premature Specialization? The Export Re-specialization Pattern of Mexico
October 2024
From Vicious to Virtuous: Understanding and Re-imagining the Relationships between Debt, Climate and Nature at COP16
October 2024
Stepping on the Scale: The G20 and Raising MDB Ambition for the 2030 Agenda and Beyond
October 2024
Energizing MDB Financing Capacity: Identifying and Filling Gaps to Raise Ambition for the 2030 Agenda and Beyond
October 2024
Development Beyond Debt: Why Financing Public Assets at Affordable Rates is Key
October 2024
GDP Center Round-Up: 2024 International Monetary Fund/World Bank Group Annual Meetings
October 2024
China, South-South Cooperation and Supporting Green Development
October 2024
Green Opening-up and South-South Cooperation
October 2024
Sustainable Trade and Sustainable Supply Chains
October 2024
Into the Woods: Understanding the Environmental Consequences of IMF Programs
October 2024
Trading Partners and Market Shapers: The Role of China in the Global Trade of Low-carbon Technologies
October 2024
GDP Center Round-Up: 2024 Summer in the Field Research Outcomes
October 2024
Summer in the Field: Why People Don’t Register Deaths in Ghana
October 2024
Back in Action: The Ninth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Sees Renewed Relations and Development Prospects
October 2024
Weighing the Costs and Benefits: Sustainability Premium for the Early Retirement of Coal Plants with Evidence from Indonesia
October 2024
Sustainability Premium for the Early Retirement of Coal Plants with Evidence from Indonesia
October 2024
Summer in the Field: Understanding Gendered Mobility in Urban Ethiopia – Insights from a Pilot Study
October 2024
Open Letter to the International Monetary Fund Board of Directors on the Need for Significant Reform of the Rate of Charge and Surcharge Policies
October 2024
Seminar Summary – The Politics of Exit: Emigration, Collective Action and Agrarian Reform in Mexico
October 2024
It’s the IMF’s Turn: An Evolution for Development and Climate Change Goals
October 2024
IMF 2030: A Transformative Action Agenda for Achieving Climate and Development Goals
October 2024
Summer in the Field: Understanding Gender Politics in the Context of Clientelism and Social Networks in Hyderabad, India
October 2024
Summer in the Field: Three Effective Ways to Use Routinely Collected Data to Evaluate Health Programs — Insights from Rwanda’s Mass Drug Administration Program
October 2024
Summer in the Field: Implementing Political Gender Quotas: Lessons from Mexico
October 2024
Summer in the Field: Show Me How You Move – Developing Methodology for Estimating Demand for Transportation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
October 2024
FAQs: What is the Debt Sustainability Framework for Low-Income Countries, and Why Does It Matter for Climate Action?
September 2024
Room to Grow: Integrating Climate Change in Debt Sustainability Analyses for Low-Income Countries
September 2024
From Surcharges to the Debt-Climate Nexus: A Think20 Policy Brief Roundup
September 2024
The FinTech Revolution: Bridging Geospatial Data Science, AI and Sustainability
September 2024
Webinar Summary: Chinese Loans to Africa Database – Data Update, 2000-2023
September 2024
The Dynamics of Women’s Political and Economic Empowerment: Q&A With Rachel Brulé
September 2024