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Kevin Gallagher
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Director Boston University Global Development Policy Center www.bu.edu/gdp
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
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
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
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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...
China Finds Buyers for Surplus Solar: Africa’s Energy-Hungry Countries
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August 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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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...
China Finds Buyers for Surplus Solar: Africa’s Energy-Hungry Countries
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August 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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
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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.
July 16, 2025 at 4:32 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...
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
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
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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
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
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
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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/...
March 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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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/...
March 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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
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
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
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
Come join our team: hiring foe press/strategic communications www.bu.edu/gdp/about-us...
Careers | Global Development Policy Center
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March 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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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
February 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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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:
February 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Cobalt and other transition mineral countries should form a cartel to manage prices and jointly invest in the green structural transformation of their countries. Can’t do it alone. on.ft.com/3XlahKH DR Congo stops cobalt exports in attempt to halt sliding prices
DR Congo stops cobalt exports in attempt to halt sliding prices
World’s top producer of metal used in electric vehicle batteries moves to counteract ‘overabundance of supply’
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February 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM