GDP Center Launches National Climate Funds Tracker
The first-of-its-kind NCF Tracker identifies 46 funds across 39 countries, showing how these funds vary by host country, legal design, scope, mobilized finance, and the level of success in attracting resources from multilateral climate funds.
Mehrling Publishes Policy Brief on International Liquidity Provision
Professor Mehrling argues the international system is tiered, one that is a global dollar system, with the Fed operating as the de facto global central bank providing international lender of last resort support to the system.
Gallagher Publishes Op-Ed on Global Energy Financing
“Without private financial institutions buying into defunding coal energy production, we will not meet our global climate and development goals.”
Gallagher Co-Authors Policy Brief on Consequences of IMF Surcharges
“The IMF should suspend these surcharges immediately to give member states this breathing space, and to give the IMF the incentive to rethink its business model.”
GDP Center Joins Task Force on Climate, Development, and the IMF
Over the next 18 months, the Task Force will engage in and utilizes rigorous, empirical research to advance IMF policies that align international financial stability and growth with global climate goals
Gallagher and GDP Center Researchers Comment on China’s Foreign Coal Investment
Professor Gallagher offered comments on President Xi Jinping’s announcement that China will end its support for new coal power projects overseas in multiple global publications including Associated Press, Forbes, Quartz, The New York Times, The Independent, and Aljazeera.
Gallagher & GDP Center Researchers Publish Articles in “Nature“
“While the World Bank’s development projects are not without their risks to biodiversity and Indigenous communities, the approach to environmental and social risk management taken by China as the world’s largest bilateral lender has global ramifications.”
Karra Publishes Working Paper on Unmet Contraceptive Needs
“Under Karra’s methodology, measures of unmet need among different populations of women are on average five to six percentage points higher than the standard measures of unmet need that are currently used by the DHS.”
GDP Center Publishes Paper on Debt Relief & Green Development
Co-authored by the GDP Center, the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London, the report proposes an ambitious blueprint for designing debt relief to secure green, resilient and inclusive development.
GDP Center Launches New Paper on EU-MERCOSUR FTA
The EU-MERCOSUR free trade agreement would represent the largest trade deal for both blocs in terms of number of citizens involved, but is likely to be a step toward less productive, more unequal and more vulnerable economies in both blocs.
GDP Center Hosts Webinar on Debt Relief for Middle-Income Countries
The GDP Center, ISPI, and T20 National Coordinator and Chair, brought together varied proposals from MICs and the international community to address the MICs’ external debt challenges.
GDP Publishes Policy Brief on the Need for IMF Climate Strategy
The IMF has so far paid minimal and uneven attention to climate risks. If the IMF does not incorporate climate risks now, it won’t be able to change course for another 7-10 years.
GDP Center Hosts Book Launch for Women, Power, and Property
“New rights can make everyone better off, because they expand the pie of resources households have access to, if they enable daughters to negotiate.”
GDP Center Publishes Report on Sustainable Debt Relief
“By relieving the debts of the poor and releasing the money to address climate change, we can start to change our world.”
GDP Releases New Paper on AIIB
Global Development policy (GDP) Center released a new working paper on the AIIB and NDB’s first four years of operation.
Gallagher and GDP Center in Bloomberg Money on China’s Energy Lending
Prof. Kevin Gallagher says China is getting cautious about energy lending and don’t expect a bounce-back in 2020.
GDP Center Announces 2018 Summer in the Field Fellows
The Summer in the Field Research fellows participate in internship opportunities and field research related to the mission of the GDP Center.
Ban Ki-moon Speaks at GDP Center Inaugural Ceremony
Ban Ki-moon, the 8th Secretary-General of the U.N., spoke about the most pressing and immediate challenges in international development.
Klinger Presents Rare Earth Frontiers at GDP Center
Prof. Julie Klinger discussed her new book Rare Earth Frontiers at the GDP Center’s China Global Research Colloquium.
Gallagher to Lead New Global Development Policy Center
Kevin Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy at the Pardee School, will serve as the director of the Global Development Policy Center.