Rising Powers Initiative

05/05/2021

RPI's Mahesh Karra will be presenting at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting this week.

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The registration rates and packages have been altered from previous years, please read through the following information carefully.There are three base registration rates:

04/28/2021

Congratulations to RPI's Jorge Heine for being appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of the newly launched journal of the Caribbean Studies Association, of which he is a past president.

04/28/2021

Min Ye was interviewed and quoted extensively in a report in China’s International Financial News. It analyzes Biden’s Infrastructure Bill and asks: Can the U.S learn from China on infrastructure development, and can China benefit and how?

上个月末，拜登公布了一项规模逾2.3万亿美元的基础设施计划。为了推动这一计划，拜登在多个场合，多次提及中国。美国基础设施修缮迫在眉睫，这是分歧不断的美国两党为数不多能够意见统一的问题。拜登时代，新一场基建...

04/27/2021

RPI's Jorge Heine is participating in a panel analyzing the emerging dynamics of the Indo-Pacific on April 29.

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04/26/2021

In a recent Voice of America news article, Jorge Heine says DEPA helps to fill a need made more urgent by the coronavirus pandemic, which "has accelerated the demand for digital services, both domestically and internationally."

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In a world replete with international economic and trade organizations — most of them best known by acronyms such as WTO, OECD, APEC, ITO, TPP and MERCOSUR — who needs one more? Apparently Canada, which is eagerly seeking to join Chile, New Zealand and Singapore in a new grouping known as the Di...

04/23/2021

RPI's Expert Affiliate, Min Ye, talks to fDi Intelligence's Seth O'Farrell in a podcast about how China’s economic policy was born of crisis, not desire for control.

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Boston University professor Min Ye discusses the history of the Belt and Road Initiative

04/22/2021

How have rising powers and nations around the world responded to ? This new open access edited volume by University of Michigan Press features important new work by RPI's Joseph Harris and many others such as Scott Greer, Kim Yi Dionne, Matthew Kavanagh, Elize Massard, and Emma Willoughby.


https://www.press.umich.edu/11927713?fbclid=IwAR0t2LtRYXFasGp6e0InokHJNlhWOgjfZyf9aSLPW7kaprvn8pZqt8nLTgo

COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures, or the economic consequences of shutdown. Coronavirus Politics identifies key threads in the global comparative...

04/22/2021

RPI's Kevin Gallagher co-wrote an op-ed recently titled, "G20’s Turn to Lead on Debt Relief for a Global Recovery".

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Since the outbreak of the pandemic, public debt surged from 103.8% to 120% on average in advanced economies and from 54% to 63.4% in developing countries, with significant differences among them. After the COVID-induced economic crisis, a new financial crisis may arise, wherever it comes from. Debt....

04/21/2021

Congratulations to RPI's who was recently awarded an NSF grant for a collaborative research project on "Detecting Accounts Involved in Influence Campaigns on Social Media".

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ABSTRACT The growing popularity of online social networks has opened the door to false information being disseminated by malicious actors. Hostile nation states are orchestrating disinformation campaigns in the United States with the goal of influencing public discourse or pushing talking points tha...

04/16/2021

RPI's Mahesh Karra and his student, Kexin Zhang, just published a research protocol paper and presented preliminary findings from this research project at the Health Economics Research Seminar at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).

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Background: To achieve informed choice within the framework of reproductive autonomy, family planning programs have begun to adopt user-centered approaches to service provision, which highlight the individual client as the focal point of interaction and key decision maker. However, little is known a...

04/16/2021

Join us on TODAY from 10:00-11:00 am ET for a discussion exploring the links between demography, politics, international security, and health among rising powers. The webinar, titled “Demographic Trends and the Making of a Superpower,” will feature Jennifer D. Sciubba (Stanley J. Buckman Professor of International Studies and Department Chair, Rhodes College), Joseph Harris (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University), and Mahesh Karra (Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University).

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The disproportionate size of the working-age population in most countries considered to be “rising powers” today provides opportunities for their own securit...

04/14/2021

How do rising powers develop international reputations in health policy? For some countries, social movements have played an important role. Important research by RPI's Joseph Harris explores the role of "professional movements" in this process in Thailand.

Explanations for the expansion of the welfare state have frequently centered on the importance of left-wing political parties and labor unions. Scholars have even pointed to the rare but growing significance of social democracy in the industrializing world. Yet, in the field of healthcare, labor uni...