Kevin P. Gallagher

About

Kevin P. Gallagher is a Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and serves as the Director of the Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center). His work focuses on advancing policy-relevant research aimed at promoting financial stability, human well-being, and environmental sustainability on a global scale. Gallagher has held prominent roles such as the Lead Expert on Multilateral Development Bank Reform to the Brazilian Presidency of the G20 and is involved in various initiatives related to climate policy, development, and international finance. He has contributed to efforts on climate, development, and economic policy through memberships in task forces and advisory committees, including the Task Force on Climate, Development and the IMF, and the Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery Project. Gallagher has also served as a visiting or adjunct professor at several prestigious institutions worldwide, including Johns Hopkins University, Tufts University, El Colegio de Mexico, Tsinghua University, and the Center for State and Society in Argentina. His research and publications primarily focus on economic development, trade and investment policy, international environmental policy, and Latin America, with notable works on China’s role in the global economy and sustainable development.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Economics
• Business
• Economic growth
• Finance
• Natural resource economics
• Development economics
• Biology
• Engineering
• International economics

Selected publications

• Whatever it takes? The global financial safety net, Covid-19, and developing countries

  World Development · 2020 · 101 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Financing carbon lock-in in developing countries: Bilateral financing for power generation technologies from China, Japan, and the United States

  Applied Energy · 2021 · 88 citations

  Power sector decarbonization requires a fundamental redirection of global finance from fossil fuel infrastructure towards low carbon technologies. Bilateral finance plays an important role in the global energy transition to non-fossil energy, but an understanding of its impact is limited. Here, for the first time, we compare the influence of overseas finance from the three largest economies – United States, China, and Japan – on power generation development beyond their borders and evaluate the…

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• Risks to global biodiversity and Indigenous lands from China’s overseas development finance

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2021 · 55 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Investor-state dispute settlement: obstructing a just energy transition

  Climate Policy · 2022-12-05 · 32 citations

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  Governments that revoke licenses and permits or take other measures to restrict the development of oil and gas in their territory will face claims from investors for compensation. When investors are foreign, they can seek compensation for ‘lost future profits’ in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), even if they had not commenced production. ISDS cases are likely to obstruct a just transition by chilling supply-side climate measures and diverting public funds away from climate change mitiga…

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• Leading sector and dual economy: how Indonesia and Malaysia mobilised Chinese capital in mineral processing

  Third World Quarterly · 2022-07-13 · 27 citations

  articleSenior author

  How do states pursue industrial policies in the context of China’s rise? Examining Indonesia and Malaysia’s mineral processing sectors, we argue that these countries illustrate two different pathways that states take to bolster their industrial policies. Indonesia has followed the leading sector strategy to increase domestic nickel processing capacity and decrease reliance on resource exports. Chinese firms and the Indonesian government built the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park to house nicke…

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Frequent coauthors

• Joseph E. Stiglitz

  110 shared

• José Antonio Ocampo

  Columbia University

  106 shared

• Dani Rodrik

  98 shared

• Gabriela Plump

  Translational Research Platform for Veterinary Biologicals (India)

  97 shared

• Arjun Jayadev

  97 shared

• Markus Advertisements

  Columbia University

  72 shared

• Usha Swarnam

  Translational Research Platform for Veterinary Biologicals (India)

  72 shared

• Rebecca Ray

  Center for Global Development

  45 shared

Education

• B.A.

  Northeastern University

• M.A.

  Tufts University

• Ph.D.

  Tufts University

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