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The G20 is now the G21! Exciting news as the African Union (AU) secures permanent #membership. Kudos to ASAP, Jeffery sachs, and others for championing this cause! 📷 Read the #policy brief here for more information: prepared-project.eu/g21/ #G21 #AfricaRising

Across the 🇺🇸US, 🇨🇳China, 🇮🇳India, 🇫🇷France, 🇩🇪Germany + 🇿🇦South Africa, what was the most common type of trade-related policy intervention used in response to COVID-19? A new Globalization and Health article IDs policy lessons for the global trade regime: gdpcenter.org/3PzeBCy

A new T20 South Africa policy brief ID's 🔑 challenges + shortcomings of IMF quota-based resources, funding + governance, with recommendations for balanced quota reform. Read more from William N. Kring, Haihong Gao, Rakesh Mohan + Marilou Uy: gdpcenter.org/45L0sId

"The climate crisis requires finding the optimal balance between rapid innovation and diffusion to protect the health and well-being of both individuals and the global community". This will require some policy experimentation. Nagesh Kumar, PhD Boston University Global Development Policy Center

Check out my conversation with my colleague Purvaja Modak Mathur about the Appellate Body crisis and what role G20 countries could play to resolve it. Boston University Global Development Policy Center Indo Pacific Circle

The global trade and investment regime has been in tension with climate policy-making almost from the beginning. Our new policy brief highlights ways forward to resolve the tension in favor of a Just Transition.

Drawing on a November 2022 workshop, a new policy brief from Rachel Thrasher + Yudong Liu IDs 3️⃣ 🔑 issues that must be addressed to put the global economy on course for achieving shared development + climate goals. Read more: gdpcenter.org/45W2SE4

Today, World Health Organization (WHO) member states are gathering to negotiate the text for a global pandemic agreement. Flexibilities around intellectual property protection must feature prominently in the agreed text, argues Boston University Global Development Policy Center’s Rachel Thrasher in this #opinion. devex.com/news/opinion-a…

Another country says good-bye to the outdated ECT. Unsurprisingly, the UK no longer wants to risk being sued for its climate action by fossil fuel firms. #NoECT Boston University Global Development Policy Center

While difficult to argue that only "harmful" fossil fuel subsidies are problematic from a climate and environmental perspective, today marks a great first step on tackling fossil fuel subsidies.

🚀 Upcoming panel: The Emerging Industrial Policy Landscape and Policy Space 🏭♻️ 🌍 with Ha-Joon Chang, Antonio Andreoni (Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation), Rachel Thrasher (Boston University), José Miguel Ahumada (University of Chile; former deputy foreign minister for trade negotiations, Chile)

🚀 From day 2 of SOAS University of London DLD Future Leaders Programme 9: 🌍✨ 🎤 First panel “Negotiating Policy Space – Practitioners’ views” with Yemi Dipeolu, Muhammad Irfan (trade negotiator, Pakistan), Duncan Green (LSE; formerly Oxfam), Liz May (DLD) 💬🌟📊

🚀 From day 2 of SOAS University of London DLD Future Leaders Programme 9: 🌍✨ 🎤 Second panel “Ecological Crisis and Policy Space” ♻️ with Antonio Andreoni (Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation), Jostein Hauge (University of Cambridge), Isabel Estevez (Roosevelt Institute) 💬📊

🚀 From day 2 of SOAS University of London DLD Future Leaders Programme 9: 🌍✨ 🎤 Third panel “Geopolitical Re-alignments and Policy Space” 🗺️♻️ with Richard Kozul-Wright, José Miguel Ahumada, Jostein Hauge, Rob Davies 💬📊

🚀 Kicking off Day 3 of SOAS University of London DLD Future Leaders Programme 9: 🌍✨ 🎤 First panel “Issues in Policy Space – Tariffs, Subsidies, and FDI regulations (TRIMS)” 🏭🏦 with Ha-Joon Chang (SOAS Economics), Muhammad Irfan, Yemi Dipeolu 💬📊

🚀 Upcoming panel: Issues in Policy Space – Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), Dispute Settlements and Procurement ⚖️📚 🌍 with Rob Davies, Rachel Thrasher, Isabel Estevez 💬📊