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Kevin Gallagher
@kevinpgallagher.bsky.social
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Director Boston University Global Development Policy Center www.bu.edu/gdp
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Kevin Gallagher @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social · 10d
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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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · Aug 26
“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.”
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China Finds Buyers for Surplus Solar: Africa’s Energy-Hungry Countries
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Somini Sengupta @sominisengupta.bsky.social · Aug 26
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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Kevin Gallagher @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social · Aug 13
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...
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Kevin Gallagher @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social · Aug 4
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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INET - Institute for New Economic Thinking @ineteconomics.bsky.social · Jul 16
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.
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Kevin Gallagher @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social · Jul 25
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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Kevin Gallagher @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social · Jun 21
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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Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · May 16
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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Kevin Gallagher @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social · May 17
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.
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Kevin Gallagher @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social · Apr 19
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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Kevin Gallagher @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social · Apr 18
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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Boston University Global Development Policy Center @gdp-center.bsky.social · Mar 14
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/...
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Boston University Global Development Policy Center @gdp-center.bsky.social · Mar 27
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/...
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Kevin Gallagher @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social · Mar 26
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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Kevin Gallagher @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social · Mar 21
The International Financial Architecture and Sustainable Prosperity. My new paper for @UNUWIDER www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...
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Kevin Gallagher @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social · Mar 11
Come lead our comms team: www.bu.edu/gdp/about-us...
Careers | Global Development Policy Center
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Boston University Global Development Policy Center @gdp-center.bsky.social · Mar 5
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.
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Kevin Gallagher @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social · Mar 4
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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Kevin Gallagher @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social · Mar 3
Come join our team: hiring foe press/strategic communications www.bu.edu/gdp/about-us...
Careers | Global Development Policy Center
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · Feb 24
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
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Boston University Global Development Policy Center @gdp-center.bsky.social · Feb 27
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:
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Kevin Gallagher @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social · Feb 27
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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Kevin Gallagher @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social · Feb 27
African leaders calling for deep and comprehensive debt relief debt-leaders.org/about/statem...
Statements — African Leaders Debt Relief Initiative
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Kevin Gallagher @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social · Feb 26
Will the World Bank withstand Hegemonic Instability? Quoting our work www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/c...
The World Bank Pivoted to Climate. That Now May Be a Problem.
The Trump administration’s deep cuts to clean-energy programs are raising concerns about U.S. commitments to the lender.
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