全球发展政策中心2024年度报告

Table of Contents LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR4 AT A GLANCE6 Mission & StrategyWho We AreBy the Numbers81016 FOSTERING A GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY AT BU18 Faculty Engagement20 Events23 ADVANCING SCHOLARLY RESEARCH THAT MATTERS ON GLOBALDEVELOPMENT POLICY26 Research InitiativesHuman Capital InitiativeGlobal Economic Governance InitiativeGlobal China InitiativeResearch Partners Around the WorldPublication Highlights283038445254 56 ENGAGING IN GLOBAL POLICY DIALOGUE AND STRATEGICCOMMUNICATIONS Policy Engagement and ImpactStrategic Communications6064 PROVIDING A ‘VIBRANT ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE’ THROUGHSTUDENT RESEARCH AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING66 BU Student EmployeesSummer in the Field Fellowship ProgramEconomics in Context Initiative697074 SOLIDIFYING THE LEGACY OF THE GDP CENTER76 FinanceFunders7880 THE YEAR AHEAD82 Letter from the Director Dear Friends of the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, I write to share with you another year of highlights from the BostonUniversity Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center). Founded in 2017 at Boston University (BU), the mission of the GDPCenter is to advance policy-oriented research for financial stabil-ity, human well-being and environmental sustainability across theglobe. We strive to fulfill this mission on five fronts: to foster a broadglobal development policy community of faculty, students and staff at BU; to advance interdisciplinary, scholarly knowledge by BU faculty and researchers;to engage in global policy dialogue and strategic communications; to provide experien-tial learning experiences for BU students and to build a global support base for success. I’m proud to share that we have continued to make headway in each area this year.Over the course of the year, the GDP Center hosted 47 events which drew an estimatedaudience of over 5,600 people at BU and around the world. The GDP Center published31 academic articles, 27 working papers and reports, 54 op-eds in leading opinion pagesand garnered 2,602 media hits, many from major international media outlets. We alsocontinued to provide experiential learning opportunities by employing 85 BU studentswith 51 graduate research assistants, 14 pre- and post-doctoral fellows, as well as sevenSummer in the Field Fellows and six Communications Fellows. In addition to adding seven new Core Faculty Members, the Human Capital Initiative(HCI) received funding to launch the African Program on Women’s EmpowermentResearch (POWER Consortium), with support from the William & Flora Hewlett Founda-tion. The POWER Consortium is a collaboration between US university-based researchcenters and African civil society networks working to advance rigorous policy researchand action on women’s empowerment in Africa. Additionally, Global China Initiative (GCI) researchers contributed to the design of Chi-na’s new Green Investment and Finance Partnership (GIFP), a platform to help Belt andRoad Initiative partner countries develop green projects and match them with Chinesefinanciers. The GIFP was unveiled at the Third Belt and Road Forum for InternationalCooperation in Beijing in October 2023, which GCI researchers attended. This summer, researchers with the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) havebeen serving as lead experts and advisors to the Brazilian Presidency of the Group of 20(G20) on reforming multilateral development banks to better address the 21st centurychallenges of financing for sustainable development. Center-wide, we have made progress on achieving the milestones and key performanceindicators set in our Strategic Plan, 2023-2028. We are looking forward to working withVice President and Associate Provostad interimfor Research, Thomas Bifano, and Deanof the Frederick S. Pardee School, Scott Taylor, on furthering the goals and ambitions ofour Strategic Plan. We have greatly enjoyed working with Gloria Waters and wish hermuch success in her new role as University provost and chief academic officer of BostonUniversity. The GDP Center has achieved significant growth in its seventh year of operations. InFY24, our total revenue stood at $9.0 million, comprising contributions from the follow-ing sources: $8.3 million from grants, $501,903 from the Office of Research, $150,000from the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, plus an additional $24,000 inadvance payment to fund the Summer in the Field Fellowship Program, $12,709 fromalumni gifts and $16,250 from royalties and income recovery. The GDP Center’s operat-ing expenditures in FY24 were $5.1 million, representing a 21.43 percent increase fromthe previous year. Throughout FY24, the GDP Center actively pursued funding opportunities, submitting20 proposals and securing 18 awards totaling $8.3 million. Two of the 20 proposals weregranted for FY25. Notably, Professor Rachel Brulé, HCI Associate Director and AssociateProfessor with the Pardee School, received a prestigious US National Science FoundationCareer Award for her proje