Pardee Faculty Fellow Enrique Silva is quoted in SciDev.Net story Online tools ‘decentralizing disaster relief efforts,‘ about his work in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. The story is about a study of new geospatial technologies and Prof. Silva shares his experience using these new tools in emergency meetings with the Haitian government. Prof. Silva is […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce the next Pardee House Seminar, titled The New Global Agreement on Mercury: Will It Make a Difference? The seminar will take place on Monday, February 25, 2013 from noon to 1:30 p.m. Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin (International Relations, […]
The Financial Times has complied a top ten list for the most popular guest posts in 2012 on in its “beyondbricks” blog about emerging markets. Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin P. Gallagher’s March entry “Why Ocampo — Not Kim — should be next World Bank president,” was the second most popular on the publication last year. […]
2013 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program Application deadline: Friday, March 15, 2013 The Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows Program offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics aligned with the broad research interests of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. […]
Anthony Janetos has been named the new Director of the Pardee Center. He will succeed James McCann who has been Director ad interim since August 2011. Janetos is an expert in climate change policy and he will come to the Pardee Center from the Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland, where he has […]
2012 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Peng Huang gave a presentation on his research on inflation-linked bonds and worry-free investment at the 2012 World Finance & Banking Symposium at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Shanghai in China on December 17-18. Huang discussed the feasibility of introducing inflation-linked bonds in China and studied their role in helping […]
A new book titled The Future of South-South Economic Relations stemming from a Pardee Center 2010 conference of the same name was recently published by Zed Books. The book was edited by former Pardee Center Director Prof. Adil Najam (now Vice Chancellor of Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan) and Pardee Center Research Fellow […]
The Pardee Center has published the 26th paper in the Issues in Brief Series, “The IMF’s New View on Financial Globalization: A Critical Assessment,” by Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher. The paper is Prof. Gallagher’s assessment of the IMF’s new “institutional view” on capital account liberalization and the management of capital flows between countries announced in December […]
Three Pardee Center Faculty Fellows were joined by a former economic development official in New York City for a discussion on “The Urban Century: Local Challenges, Global Matters” during a Pardee House Seminar on Thursday, December 13. Paul McManus, director of Boston University’s Sustainable Neighborhood Lab project, moderated the panel, which included Prof. Nathan Phillips […]
Director ad interim James McCann led a four-person roundtable panel at the 18th International Conference on Ethiopian Studies in the city of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia on October 31-November 2nd. Panelists on the Roundtable included former Pardee Post-doctoral Fellow Heran Sereke-Brhan, Stefan Bruene, (Hamburg University and Intergovernmental Authority on Development), Masresha Fetene, Vice President for Research, (Addis […]