In a recent study, Rebecca Ray examined multilateral development banks (MDBs) and the power distribution of the countries that borrow from them. Access the full Appendix below to review supplementary materials.
By Kevin P. Gallagher & Rebecca Ray With the release of the new interactive China’s Overseas Development Finance (CODF) Database this past week, a number of analyses and takes have been offered on the data. In this post, we make three clarifying points on the scope and findings of our data: 1. What does it […]
By Maureen Heydt On Thursday, December 10, the Global Development Policy (GDP)Center hosted a webinar launch event for the new interactive China’s Overseas Development Finance (CODF) Database, featuring GDP Center Director Kevin P. Gallagher, Senior Academic Researcher Rebecca Ray, and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Blake Alexander Simmons. The CODF Database is the first global, harmonized, validated, and geolocated […]
By Rebecca Ray and Blake Alexander Simmons The China’s Overseas Development Finance Database is a geospatial dataset for analysis of China’s sovereign lending commitments and their proximity to Critical Habitats, National Protected Areas and Indigenous Peoples’ Lands. The database tracks lending commitments by China’s two major policy banks, the China Development Bank (CDB) and the […]
Chinese policy banks provided close to half a trillion dollars in development finance to foreign governments from 2008—2019. This new interactive database allows users to examine the geolocation of China’s overseas development projects and to explore their proximity to indigenous people’s lands, critical habitats, and national protected areas. The interactive China’s Overseas Development Finance Database […]
Ahead of the G20 summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia this week, our experts outline the top policy priorities of the moment. Below are recommendations related to trade agreements, bond purchases, IMF austerity, strengthening the global financial safety net, climate change, and more: G20 Needs to Reset Multilateralism As the COVID-19 pandemic rages into a second […]
In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008-9, the research department and flagship reports of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) suggested tight fiscal consolidation was inappropriate for developing nations undergoing economic stress. In this new working paper, Dr. Rebecca Ray, Dr. Kevin P. Gallagher, and Dr. William Kring evaluate the extent to which […]
In 2019, trade between China and Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) hit record figures, though the relationship between exports and imports has largely held steady from 2018. Infrastructure continued to form the backbone of the relationship, providing the majority of both development finance and investment. These are among findings of the China-Latin America Economic […]
A new book, “Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon,” edited by Rebecca Ray, Kevin P. Gallagher and Cynthia A. Sanborn explores what development banks, governments and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon, and the pressures of a surging infrastructure and […]
Since the turn of the 21st century, South America’s Western Andean nations have adopted some of the world’s most ambitious environmental and social protections surrounding infrastructure investment, including most notably the right to prior consultation for affected Indigenous communities. These reforms have been matched by the adoption of equally ambitious environmental and social safeguards (ESS) […]