GDP Center Co-Hosts 23rd NSE International Development Forum
The Global Development Policy (GDP) Center, an affiliated center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, co-hosted the 23rd New Structural Economics (NSE) International Development Forum in Beijing, China with colleagues at the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University on June 1, 2018.
The forum was entitled “Opportunities and Risks for Renewable Energy Finance in the Belt and Road Initiative and Beyond,” and featured simultaneous interpretation in Chinese and English. Justin Yifu Lin, Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics and Professor at Peking University, provided opening remarks.
GDP Center Director Kevin P. Gallagher chaired the opening session entitled the “Global Opportunities for Renewable Energy Finance.”
Members from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), the National Bank for the Foreign Trade (BANCOMEXT), the French Development Agency (AFD), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the OECD’s Development Co-operation Directorate, the Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific (ADFIAP), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the China New Energy and International Alliance (CNEIA), the China Development Bank, the China-Africa Development Fund, and Greenovation Hub participated in the forum.
The GDP Center is a university-wide research center in partnership with the Office of the Vice President and Associate Provost for Research and 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.