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  Five Realistic Goals for Global Economic Governance in 2025

  By Tim Hirschel-Burns 2025 admittedly presents a dubious landscape for achieving substantive global economic governance reforms. The scale of needs Read more

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  Around the Halls: A Year in Review and Look Ahead to 2025

  The most notable milestone of 2024 was the 80th anniversary of the Bretton Woods institutions of the International Monetary Fund Read more

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  Advancing Climate Policy at the IMF

  While the macroeconomic significance of climate change has been understood in academic scholarship for a long time, policy engagement on Read more

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  Webinar Summary: China’s Global Energy Finance Database – Data Update, 2000-2023

  By Thang Ha On November 14, 2024, the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center hosted a webinar on the Read more

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  A Roadmap for Unlocking the Potential of Multilateral Development Banks Exists – and the G20 Just Endorsed It

  By Tim Hirschel-Burns and Rishikesh Ram Bhandary A $4 trillion financing gap to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Read more

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  Seminar Summary – Disease, Disparities, and Development: Evidence from Chagas Disease Control in Brazil

  By Naomi Frim-Abrams On November 20, 2024, the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) hosted Jon Denton-Schneider, Assistant Professor of Economics at Read more

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  Webinar Summary – Feminism in Public Debt: A Human Rights Approach

  By Praveena Bandara On November 7, 2024, the Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) hosted Marina Zucker-Marques, Senior Academic Read more

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  Acting in Parallel on Debt and Development before It is Too Costly and Too Late

  Emerging market and developed countries must meet their shared climate and development goals to avoid the catastrophic costs of inaction. Read more