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Kevin Gallagher
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Dr. Kevin Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where he directs the Global Development Policy Center. He is the author/co-author of six books: The China Triangle: Latin America’s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus, Ruling Capital: Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance; The Clash of Globalizations: Essays on Trade and Development Policy; The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization (with Roberto Porzecanski); The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico’s Silicon Valley (with Lyuba Zarsky); and Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond. Gallagher serves on the United Nations’ Committee for Development Policy and the T-20 Task Force on International Financial Architecture at the G-20. His is also the international team leader of the Greening the Belt and Road Task Force of the China Council for International Cooperation and Development. He previously served on the investment sub-committee of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy at the U.S. Department of State and on the National Advisory Committee on the North American Free Trade Agreement at the Environmental Protection Agency. Gallagher has been a visiting or adjunct professor at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico, Tsinghua University in China, and the Center for State and Society in Argentina.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently pledged to put climate change at the heart of its work. A laggard to date, the IMF has to catch up fast ... Read More
The IMF’s most important function is to provide emergency financing to countries in dire economic straits that are unable to pay their creditors. In ... Read More
The US can reverse its resistance to an SDR allocation, provide new bilateral financing, and comprehensive debt relief through pressure on the private ... Read More
In the past, the IMF infamously treated each crisis with a “one-size-fits-all” approach that conditioned new financing on fiscal austerity, but has ... Read More
To achieve a sustainable and stable global economy, international cooperation is key to addressing the cross-border challenges of pandemics and climate change. Read More
China's development banks provide as much financing to developing countries as the World Bank does, Boston University's Kevin Gallagher explains. Read More
Latin American financial ministers and central bankers will have a lot at stake and a lot to worry about at the upcoming spring meetings of the IMF and ... Read More
In an ongoing series examining the consequences of President Trump’s policies on the region, Kevin Gallagher looks at what this administration’s trade ... Read More
Latin America is experiencing its worst economic growth — projected to be negative this year – since the lost decade of the 1980s. At this crucial time, ... Read More