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Faculty Weigh In On Priorities for Human Development

in Centers & Programs

What should the top policy priorities be for supporting human development in the year ahead?

Tagged: 2021, Child health, COVID-19, Development, GDP Center, Gender, Mahesh Karra, Rachel Brule

Janine Ferretti Appointed to World Bank Leadership Position

in Faculty News

Professor Ferretti will assume the role of VP, Office of Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) on or around January 1, 2021.

Tagged: 2020, Development, Environment, Faculty News, Janine Ferretti

Gallagher in FT on China’s Overseas Development

in In the Media

Prof. Kevin Gallagher wrote a recent letter to the editor of Financial Times on risk and reward in China’s overseas development plan.

Tagged: 2018, China, Development, Financial Times, In The Media, Kevin Gallagher, Letter to the Editor

Najam’s Research Headlines NHDR Launch in Pakistan

in Research

Dean Adil Najam was the lead author for the just-launched Pakistan National Human Development Report on Youth.

Tagged: 2018, Adil Najam, Development, Human Development, Human Development Report, Pakistan, research, youth, Youth bulge

Najam Interviewed by IIASA on Living in the Age of Adaptation

in In the Media, Research

Dean Adil Najam discusses his experience as a Young Scientists Summer Program Fellow at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Tagged: 2017, adaptation, Adil Najam, Climate Change, Development, IIASA, YPPS

Najam Interviewed on Climate and Development Policy

in In the Media

In developing countries development policy should be climate policy, says Adil Najam.

Tagged: 2017, adaptation, Adil Najam, Climate Change, Development, Soch Bichar, Sustainable Development

Najam Chairs South Asian Network of Environmental Economists

in General News, Research

Dean Adil Najam completes his tenure as Chair of the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics.

Tagged: 2016, Adil Najam, Development, Environmental Economics, Environmental Governance, Nepal, SANDEE, South Asia

Gallagher in FT: Insufficient Capital Controls

in In the Media

Kevin Gallagher discussed capital flows in a Jan. 27 article in the Financial Times.

Tagged: 2016, Development, Economics, Finance, Financial Times, gallagher, In The Media, Kevin Gallagher

Najam Talks Infrastructure at MIT

in Research

Adil Najam tells MIT conference why innovation must focus on the needs of the poor.

Tagged: 2015, Adil Najam, Climate Change, Development, Disasters, Infrastructure, Innovation, MIT, Poverty

Selin in The Conversation on SDGs: Unimpressed

in In the Media

Henrik Selin is unimpressed by the United Nation’s new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); there are too many of them, with too little focus.

Tagged: 2015, Development, Henrik Selin, SDGs, The Conversation, United Nations

Najam Explains Climate Change & Extreme Weather

in In the Media

1400 die in Pakistan heat wave. Adil Najam says it is bad governance, not cliamte change that killed them.

Tagged: 2015, adaptation, Adil Najam, Climate, Climate Change, Development, governance, najam, Pakistan, Weather، پاکستان، عادل نجم

Pardee School Dean Talks Health & Climate at BUMC

in Research

Pardee School Dean Adil Najam recently spent the day at the BU Medical Campus.

Tagged: 2015, Adil Najam, BUMC, Climate Change, Development, Human Security, Medical School

Dean Adil Najam Appointed to Prestigious UN Body

in General News, Research

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has tapped Dean Adil Najam of the BU Pardee School to serve a second term as a member of the prestigious UN Committee on Development Policy.

Tagged: 2015, Adil Najam, CDP, Development, United Nations

Alumni Spotlight: GDP Alums Create Food Security Index

in Alumni

Thanks to Global Development Policy alums from the Pardee School, non-governmental organizations studying hunger in the developing world will have a new tool at their disposal.

Tagged: 2015, Anne Short, Development, Food Security, GDP, Hunger, Malawi, Oxfam, Ryan Bartlett, Sarah McKeever, Sarah Sherman

Najam Elected Chair of South Asian Network of Environmental Economists

in General News, Research

Dean Adil Najam will serve as the new Chair of the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE).

Tagged: 2014, Adil Najam, Development, Economics, Environment, South Asia

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