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GDP Center Hosts Debt Swap Research Launch On February 3, 2021, the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center, an affiliated regional center at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted a webinar discussion and interactive demonstration of its latest research on opportunities for debt-for-climate and debt-for-nature swaps with China. The webinar included Kevin Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy and Director of the GDP Center, Senior Researcher Rebecca Ray, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Blake Alexander Simmons, as well as Professor Carlos Larr...

Jayita Sarkar Jayita Sarkar is assistant professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, and the founding director of the Global Decolonization Initiative. The Initiative houses the Nuclear Sites Project on the interconnectedness of systemic disenfranchisement in nuclear infrastructures across the world. Website: www.jayitasarkar.com Articles by Jayita Sarkar

Miller Explores Social Media’s Impact on Democracy Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published an article in  Hindustan Timeson social media and its impact on global politics. This is the seventh of Miller’s monthly columns in Hindustan Times. In the article, titled “The democratic dilemma posed by social media,” Miller discusses social media’s impact on the world and what the future might hold now that these platforms are so ubiquitous. From the Arab Spring to the Jan...

5 Min Read HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba must devalue and deregulate further after taking initial steps this year to restructure its ailing state-run economy and presumably pay off long overdue debt, according to western creditors, business partners and analysts. FILE PHOTO: Vintage cars drive on the seafront boulevard El Malecon in Havana, Cuba, December 29, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer Cuba devalued the peso this month from its decades-old official rate of par with the greenback to 24 pesos to the dollar. A dollar substitute called the convertible peso, fixed at the latter rate, was scrapped, as were ...

There is no ‘going back to normal’. Jan 25, 2021 · 11:30 pm Adil Najam, international relations professor at Boston University, interviewed 99 experts about what the post-pandemic future will bring. | Pardee Center/Boston University, CC BY-SA Back in March 2020, my colleagues at the Frederick S Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University thought that it might be useful to begin thinking about “the day after coronavirus”. For a research centre dedicated to longer-term thinking, it made sense to ask what our post-Covid-19 world m...