Boston University Global Development Policy Center

🌐 The Global Financial Safety Net Tracker, produced with @FU_Berlin @UNCTAD + @HTW_Berlin, provides transparent data on the global financial safety net. Explore the updated database, which now exhibits the lending capacity of the GFSN through Dec. 2025: bu.edu/gdp/global-fin…

📅 One week away! Join us for the webinar "Greening the Steel + Cement Used in China's Global Infrastructure Projects" to explore how green procurement can drive decarbonization across China's overseas infrastructure footprints. Register now: gdpcenter.org/buycleanwebinar

🌍 Updated with 2024 data, the Chinese Loans to Africa Database documents over 1,319 loan commitments amounting to $180.87B from 🇨🇳 Chinese development finance institutions + others to African govs, state-owned enterprises + others. Explore the data: bu.edu/gdp/chinese-lo…

What are other policy trends observed in the global electric vehicle (EV) industry beyond tariffs? In a new working paper, Hanjie Wang points out the importance of shifting geopolitical dynamics in facilitating the adoption of localization policies: bu.edu/gdp/2026/02/13…

Because they have almost entirely avoided entering investment treaties w/ investor-state dispute settlement, 🇧🇷Brazil + 🇸🇷Suriname have no exposure to ISDS in their oil + gas sectors. A recent policy brief recommends countries follow this example: bu.edu/gdp/2025/11/10…

🇨🇳China's non-pricing mitigation measures from 2018-2023 achieved emissions cuts equivalent to a $10/ton carbon price, according to the latest research by He Xiaobei, @MJ_GreenFinance + Guo Fang. Read more in a recent technical paper: bu.edu/gdp/2025/12/18…

What is the future to development finance research? In a new blog featuring a recent workshop, Global China Fellow Tianyi Wu sees a way through building stronger networks + collaborations among scholars. Read more: bu.edu/gdp/2026/02/06…

As governments race to decarbonize economies, the electric vehicle (EV) sector has become one of the most competitive arenas of global industrial activity. In a recent blog, Hanjie Wang explores how geopolitics is reshaping the global EV world: bu.edu/gdp/2026/02/13…

In the latest entry of his blog series, @TimH_B outlines South Korea's 🇰🇷 post-war transformation as an example of how developing countries can successfully utilize external finance + domestic policy to meet development + climate needs. Read more: bu.edu/gdp/2026/02/12…

At #COP30 in 🇧🇷Brazil, the protection of the Amazon is a central theme. In a recent policy brief, @TimH_B, @Thrasher_Rachel + Fiorella Paredes provide a previously unavailable mapping of investor-state dispute settlement risk in the region. Read more: bu.edu/gdp/2025/11/10…

Latest data observes that Chinese lending to Africa 🌍 remained concentrated in transportation, energy transmission + other sectors with challenges in attracting private investment. Explore more findings in a recent policy brief: bu.edu/gdp/2025/11/13…

🇰🇷 South Korea has become a significant aid donor + importer of US goods. In his latest blog entry, @TimH_B examines the history of US economic assistance to South Korea, in addition to the country's domestic development reforms. Read more: bu.edu/gdp/2026/02/12…

🌍 Updated with 2024 data, the Chinese Loans to Africa Database documents over 1,319 loan commitments amounting to $180.87B from 🇨🇳 Chinese development finance institutions + others to African govs + others. Explore the recent data: bu.edu/gdp/chinese-lo…

In her latest working paper on global electric vehicle (EV) + localization policies, Hanjie Wang argues that the current geopolitical environment allows developing countries to pursue localization-led industrial strategies. Explore why this is important: bu.edu/gdp/2026/02/13…

"I think technology will lead us all to a better place, and I think it's created a lot of prosperity already." @EswarSPrasad highlighted how tech has the potential to both strengthen + hinder the global economic order during a talk on his new book, "The Doom Loop" at @BU_Tweets.

In a recent journal article, @Thrasher_Rachel, Praveena Bandara + co-authors outline 3️⃣ options for resolving the tension between green industrial policymaking + global trade rules. Read more: bu.edu/gdp/2025/09/19…

For several decades following WWII, South Korea 🇰🇷 received nearly as much US economic aid as all of Africa combined. @TimH_B explores the development implications of this large-scale international support in a new blog. Read more: bu.edu/gdp/2026/02/12…

How can 🇧🇩Bangladesh pursue climate action while managing its debt? A recent technical paper by @FahmidaKcpd + coauthors from @cpdbd1993 integrates climate change risks into the country's debt sustainability estimation. Read more: bu.edu/gdp/2025/10/16…

🎙️New Carbon Politics episode drops on March 28! In this episode, CSE's @upamanyudas05 speaks to @MarinaZucker from @GDP_Center on sovereign debt's impact on climate action and what are the avenues for debt relief for the Global South. Details in the poster 👇

Geopolitics acts as a catalyst, not as a replacement, of existing domestic development ambitions, Hanjie Wang writes in a new blog. Read more about geopolitics reshaping how + where the global electric vehicle (EV) industry is built: bu.edu/gdp/2026/02/13…