By Oyintarelado (Tarela) Moses On March 1, 2022, the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center joined a webinar hosted by the Word Resources Institute (WRI) to launch the China Overseas Finance Inventory (COFI) Database. WRI created the database in collaboration with the GDP Center, the China Africa Research Initiative at the Johns Hopkins University […]
China’s leadership is increasingly aware of the importance of environmental sustainability as a key factor in the success of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an initiative first raised publicly by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in 2013 for intercontinental development and economic cooperation. The BRI puts transportation and energy infrastructure among its top priority areas, […]
The 2022 update to the China’s Global Energy Finance Database, managed by the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, recorded no new energy development finance commitments in 2021 from China to foreign governments through its two most active policy banks, the China Development Bank (CDB) and the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM). This is the […]
By Natalie Ellis As the two-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic approaches, many people may be looking towards the future of returning to a “new normal.” However, one data group, the CoronaNet Research Project, will continue to look back at the apex of the pandemic in an effort to paint a complete picture of the […]
By William Kring As the more lethal and contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 spreads across the globe, concerns continue to mount about the duration of the global pandemic and its growing social and economic costs. Just last week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) trimmed its global economic growth forecast and cited rising debt levels and […]
China is now the world’s largest source of bilateral development finance and will likely continue to play a prominent role in sovereign lending through its multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). A new journal article published in Nature’s Scientific Data by a team of Boston University Global Development Policy Center researchers introduces major methodological enhancements […]
By: Paula Torrez-Ortiz The Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) within the Boston University Global Development Policy Center works to advance policy-relevant research on international financial, trade and development institutions that play a leading role in global economic governance. As part of this work, the GEGI research team has released four interactive research projects that serve […]
The Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center is a University-wide center in partnership with the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. The GDP Center’s mission is to advance policy-oriented research for financial stability, human well-being and environmental sustainability. The Global China Initiative (GCI) at the GDP Center maintains a suite of five interactive […]
Many datasets involving human subjects contain sensitive information and require the protection of subject confidentiality. The protection of subject confidentiality can, however, limit access to the data, which in turn may limit the scope for valuable research. A common approach to addressing this issue is to create public use datasets that mask, or perturb, information […]