Kevin Gallagher
@kevinpgallagher.bsky.social
Director Boston University Global Development Policy Center www.bu.edu/gdp
Explainer on most of the datasets out there on Chinas overseas economic activity: www.bu.edu/gdp/2025/11/...
How We Track China’s Overseas Development Finance: A Guide to GDP Center’s Four Flagship Databases | Global Development Policy Center
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November 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Explainer on most of the datasets out there on Chinas overseas economic activity: www.bu.edu/gdp/2025/11/...
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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.
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.
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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.
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...
China and the Global Economic Order
Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - China and the Global Economic Order
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October 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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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Book launch: "China and the Global Economic Order"
FPI Senior Fellow Gregory Chin and co-author Professor Kevin Gallagher discuss their new book with Professor David M. Lampton.
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October 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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.
www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
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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/...
Green Developmental Statecraft: The International Dimension of Green Structural Transformation in the Global South | Global Development Policy Center
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September 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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/...
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“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.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...
China Finds Buyers for Surplus Solar: Africa’s Energy-Hungry Countries
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August 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“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.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...
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Chinese solar exports to African countries are surging.
With insights from @ember-energy.org and @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...
With insights from @ember-energy.org and @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...
China Finds Buyers for Surplus Solar: Africa’s Energy-Hungry Countries
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August 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Chinese solar exports to African countries are surging.
With insights from @ember-energy.org and @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...
With insights from @ember-energy.org and @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...
Western protectionism China, and climate change chinaglobalsouth.com/analysis/chi...
The New Protectionism Toward China and Climate Change
By Kevin P. Gallagher For decades now, China has advanced a big push in both policy innovation and public investment to become the global leader in low carbon technology trade. While deploying these i...
chinaglobalsouth.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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...
Are Economists Architects or Auditors?
Ricardo Hausmann laments how the field’s appetite for imaginative problem-solving has given way to narrow, testable hypotheses.
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August 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Economists need to be more than program evaluators given that the program has no foundation: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/w...
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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.
What comes next?
👉 youtu.be/JosVGyBA3gQ 👀
@kevinpgallagher.bsky.social lays out 5 principles for a resilient future.
July 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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.
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...
The Case for a New Bretton Woods
How do we prepare for a world of constant shocks—climate disasters, financial crises, pandemics, conflict, and inequality?
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July 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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!
June 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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!
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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.
Getting Debt Sustainability Right in Developing Countries | by Kevin P. Gallagher, José Antonio Ocampo and Kunal Sen - Project Syndicate
Kevin P. Gallagher, José Antonio Ocampo and Kunal Sen explain why the current global financial architecture fails to meet low- and middle-income countries' needs.
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May 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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...
Getting Debt Sustainability Right in Developing Countries | by Kevin P. Gallagher, José Antonio Ocampo and Kunal Sen - Project Syndicate
Kevin P. Gallagher, José Antonio Ocampo and Kunal Sen explain why the current global financial architecture fails to meet low- and middle-income countries' needs.
www.project-syndicate.org
May 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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...
Restoring Multilaterism | Richard Kozul-Wright & Kevin Gallagher
A reformed global agenda built on public foundations
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April 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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/...
Developing countries locked out of low-carbon technology trade
More than 90% of all low-carbon technology trade is between high-income countries and China
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April 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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/...
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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/...
Read more: www.bu.edu/gdp/2024/07/...
March 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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/...
Read more: www.bu.edu/gdp/2024/07/...
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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/...
Read more: www.bu.edu/gdp/2025/03/...
March 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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/...
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
Home | Africa Power Consort
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March 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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...
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March 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The International Financial Architecture and Sustainable Prosperity. My new paper for @UNUWIDER www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...
Come lead our comms team: www.bu.edu/gdp/about-us...
Careers | Global Development Policy Center
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March 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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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.
March 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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
March 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Daniel Titelman, head of Economic Development division @eclac.bsky.social and @bualumni.bsky.social sharing roots of Latin America’s structural growth problems
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Careers | Global Development Policy Center
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March 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Come join our team: hiring foe press/strategic communications www.bu.edu/gdp/about-us...