Now out in the Journal of Globalization and Development: A special issue on Greened Dependency and Development that explores the political economy of Latin America’s energy transition, guest edited by @barbarafritz Barbara Fritz, Martin Middelanis & José Carlos Orihuela

Explainer on most of the datasets out there on Chinas overseas economic activity: www.bu.edu/gdp/2025/11/...

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.

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. www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

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/...

“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...

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...

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...

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.

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!

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...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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...

Come lead our comms team: www.bu.edu/gdp/about-us...

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

Come join our team: hiring foe press/strategic communications www.bu.edu/gdp/about-us...

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

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:

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

African leaders calling for deep and comprehensive debt relief debt-leaders.org/about/statem...

Will the World Bank withstand Hegemonic Instability? Quoting our work www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/c...

In a new report, Chiara Mariotti, @rishirbhandary.bsky.social, @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social + Richard Kozul-Wright outline 6️⃣ policy recommendations for multilateral + national development bank cooperation to advance development + climate change priorities. Read more: www.bu.edu/gdp/2025/02/...

Ahead of the Finance in Common Summit, our nee report on how MDBs can ‘blend from the ground up’ through public-public partnerships @danielagabor.bsky.social @annpettifor.bsky.social

Escape from DC and come lead iur comms team on global development reseaech www.bu.edu/gdp/about-us...

My favorite development/international economist has long been @drodrik.bsky.social but i don’t think you have this one right. If done right there is not a trade off between combating climate change and economic growth www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/n...

Time to speak up about Africa’s debt crisis, new piece with @marinazucker.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/...

RIP Shane Hunt @BU_Tweets Economist who studied the Latin American frontier jstor.org/stable/2117032

Escape from Washington before it’s too late! Come join our communications team: www.bu.edu/gdp/about-us...

Escape from Washington before it’s too late! Come join our communications team: www.bu.edu/gdp/about-us...

Great work by Lagakos, Michalopoulos, and Voth on personal narratives from 1930s to ask what gives people meaning. Work and community top the list. Neither enters economists' understanding of well-being directly. A big blind spot in how we evaluate policy impacts. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2ej7c...

“The opportunity to vastly improve the life chances of millions of people across lower income countries is staring the government in the face. The government can pass new legislation to ensure banks and hedge funds #CancelTheDebt” - Heidi Chow

In my 2016 ‘The China Triangle’ I argued that LAC countries needed to ‘capitalize’ on the The China cycle by parking windfalls into SWFs, stabilization funds, and development banks to diversify when the cycle was over. Only Chile was prudent.Lithium may be the last chance on.ft.com/3WiOTVO

a good friend not on social said ‘um Global South countries demanding higher taxes for exploitative extractives are ‘terror tactics’ but taking Greenland is fine?!’The ‘terrifying’ crackdown on mining companies in Africa’s coup belt on.ft.com/4hdEeUn

Bravo FT: China may be the leader in green tech, but the more important race is the one the planet is running, against the clock, to curb climate change. If it is to win it, countries will need to find strategies to work with Beijing in green tech, while minimising the risks.

New article with @marinazucker.bsky.social and others on Africa’s chronic debt predicament. Time for HIPc 2.0: track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

History of Political Economy Project kicking off it’s workshop on ‘Neoliberalism’s Citadels and Chokepoints’ @quinnslobodian.com

Global South countries will witness evermore uncertainty in exchange rates and capital flows. Important to put in place capital flow regulations to stem the time—the lack thereof has already done too much damage since 2020 and worst could be yet to come

Honored to be named Non-resident senior fellow at UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research @UNUWIDER, sharing my page and first blog piece here: www.wider.unu.edu/expert/kevin...

My 2025 take for WIDER www.wider.unu.edu/publication/...

Net negative transfers on external public debt in middle and low-income countries continued in 2023. Public sectors in these countries paid more to creditors than they received in fresh funding. Multilaterals are providing net positive flows, while private creditors continue to drain resources.