Out Now: Volume 16, Issue 1 of Journal of Globalization and Development, edited by @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social and Jeronim Capaldo.
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(Graphic titled 'Fixed Price' in Jairo Alvarez and Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky’s article “Beyond Debt – Curatorial Note”)
Now out in the Journal of Globalization and Development:
A special issue on Greened Dependency and Development that explores the political economy of Latin America’s energy transition, guest edited by @barbarafritz Barbara Fritz, Martin Middelanis & José Carlos Orihuela
Explainer on most of the datasets out there on Chinas overseas economic activity: www.bu.edu/gdp/2025/11/...
Check our chart of the week! shorturl.at/l7xhx
COP’s key discussion: achieving the $1.3T climate finance goal.
For that, MDBs must play a bold role. Tripling MDB lending by 2030, per G20 Independent Expert Group, would put MDBs in the path to cover one-quarter of 1.3 T target by 2035.
New book released today with Greg Chin and OPEN ACCESS: China and the International Economic Order www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Please come if you are in DC for annuals: On Thursday, October 16, join JHU SAIS + the GDP Center for the launch 📚 of 'China and the Global Economic Order,' my new book w/Gregory T. Chin, published by Cambridge University Press in its Global China series.
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New report authored by over 20 current and ex officials from global South, IMF, WB, think tanks and academics: a call to action in Southern -led ‘Green developmental statecraft.’ www.bu.edu/gdp/2025/09/...
“Cheap imports can help underpin green industrialization in Africa and alleviate China’s overcapacity,” @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social said. “Africa doesn’t have time for geopolitical tensions, they just need cheap green power.”
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Chinese solar exports to African countries are surging.
With insights from @ember-energy.org and @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social
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Western protectionism China, and climate change chinaglobalsouth.com/analysis/chi...
Economists need to be more than program evaluators given that the program has no foundation: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/w...
The world we’ve built is interconnected—and vulnerable.
What comes next?
👉 youtu.be/JosVGyBA3gQ 👀
@kevinpgallagher.bsky.social lays out 5 principles for a resilient future.
Was great to sit with the folks at INET and discuss the need for urgent reform of the global financial architecture www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
Honored to be on the Pope’s commission for debt relief in this Jubilee year. Amidst this Kindleberger trap the Pope may be our only hope!
Only by embracing a new approach to developing-country debt will we unblock the investment flows that these countries so desperately need to kickstart growth, write @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social, et al.
The international financial architecture needs to enable countries to mobilize financing for development without perpetually teetering on debt distress: key moves for F4D in Seville. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...
Making Multilateralism Great Again! New piece with Richard Kozul-Wright www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/res...
Global South locked out of low carbon trade—our new database in @science.org @bentleyallan.bsky.social @drodrik.bsky.social @isabelestevez.bsky.social @glenpeters.bsky.social @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @leeharris.ft.com @katemac.bsky.social @adilnajam.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A new journal article by Solomon Owusu, @keyitang.bsky.social + Gideon Ndubuisi examines the impact of 🇨🇳Chinese foreign direct investment on low-carbon industrialization in Africa, within the context of China’s growing economic ties with the continent.
Read more: www.bu.edu/gdp/2024/07/...
In a new @unu-wider.bsky.social working paper, @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social lays out a framework for reforming the int'l financial architecture in order to achieve sustainable prosperity.
Read more: www.bu.edu/gdp/2025/03/...
Check out new web page for African Power Consortium that the @gdp-center.bsky.social is a partner in: www.africapowerconsortium.org
The International Financial Architecture and Sustainable Prosperity. My new paper for @UNUWIDER www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...
Happening now @bostonu.bsky.social, @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social offers opening remarks at an expert panel on green industrial policy in the Global South, co-sponsored with the BU Pardee School and ft'ing speakers from 🇿🇦South Africa, 🇧🇷Brazil + 🇮🇩Indonesia.
Daniel Titelman, head of Economic Development division @eclac.bsky.social and @bualumni.bsky.social sharing roots of Latin America’s structural growth problems
Come join our team: hiring foe press/strategic communications www.bu.edu/gdp/about-us...
Awesome new paper from Chiara Mariotti @rishirbhandary.bsky.social @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social Richard Kozul-Wright.
The blended finance agenda has focused on derisking int'l private capital, but multilateral development banks could work far more with another partner: *national* development banks
On Wed., Mar. 5, join us + @bupardeeschool.bsky.social for an expert panel on green industrial policy in the Global South ft'ing Marcos Chiliatto, Rob Davies, Elizabeth Thurbon, Julia Tijaja + Fiona Treganna, moderated by @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social:
