By Katie Gallogly-Swan On Monday, September 27, the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) hosted a webinar discussion to explore the future of US trade policy under the Biden administration. The discussion was moderated by the GDP Center Researcher Rachel Thrasher and featured Richard […]
By Katie Gallogly-Swan On Thursday, July 15, the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) hosted a webinar discussion to explore the recently announced “Build Back Better World’” (B3W) Partnership from the G7, billed as a “Green Marshall Plan” to generate improved access to financing […]
By Rebecca Ray The triple crisis of public health, the global economy, and climate change are looming for the world, but focusing their havoc on developing countries in particular. While low and middle-income countries (LMICs) have faced wave after wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic also made foreign capital and hard currency scarce, necessitating […]
Even before the COVID-19 crisis, it was clear the global economy needed a reset and a massive increase in public investment. In the last decade, it is no exaggeration to say that the leadership for this has come from the South – as Southern-owned development banks, infrastructure funds, foreign exchange reserve funds and sovereign wealth […]
By Maureen Heydt On Tuesday, Nov. 10, the Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) hosted a webinar to launch the new book from Henrik Selin, “Mercury Stories: Understanding Sustainability through a Volatile Element,” co-authored with Noelle Eckley Selin. The book is an interdisciplinary analysis of human interactions with mercury through history that sheds light on […]
By Maureen Heydt On Thursday, October 22, the Global Development Policy Center hosted a webinar launch event for the new interactive China’s Global Power (CGP) Database. The CGP Database is an interactive mapping of all overseas power plants financed through Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) and/or China’s two global policy banks, the China Development Bank […]