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Kevin Gallagher

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Kevin Gallagher is professor of international relations at Boston University where he co-directs the Global Economic Governance Initiative. Follow him on Twitter @KevinPGallagher

January 2014

  • Mexico car vehicle factory

    Poverty matters blog
    How China crashed the Nafta party

    The negotiators of the ambitious and contentious 1994 free-trade deal failed to anticipate the rise in cheap imports from Asia, say Kevin P Gallagher and Enrique Dussel Peters

July 2013

  • MDG Chinese development banks

    Poverty matters blog
    China's development banks need to clean up their act

    Kevin Gallagher: Chinese cash is a welcome option for developing countries from Burma to Gabon, but projects must respect environmental and social concerns

May 2013

  • MDG Uruguay and China

    Poverty matters blog
    Latin America playing a risky game by welcoming in the Chinese dragon

    Kevin Gallagher: Chinese finance is more in tune with what Latin America wants, rather than what western development experts say it needs

April 2012

  • MDG : Brazil speculative capital flow : Stock traders in Sao Paulo

    Poverty matters blog
    Cross-border financial regulation is justified now more than ever

  • MDG : Jose Antonio Ocampo

    Poverty matters blog
    José Antonio Ocampo for (World Bank) president

March 2012

  • MDG : China in Brazil, South America

    Poverty matters blog
    Forget the received wisdom: Chinese finance in Latin America is a win-win

    Kevin Gallagher: China's commodity-backed loans are less lopsided than thought, but Latin America should beware commodity-led growth

November 2011

  • Nicolas Sarkozy G20

    double quotation markThe IMF must heed G20 decisions

    Kevin Gallagher
  • Greek prime minister George Papandreou

    double quotation markThe eurozone debt crisis and the G20

    Kevin Gallagher

October 2011

  • Chinese civil engineer in Nairobi

    Poverty matters blog
    double quotation markThe self-inflicted wound of US foreign aid cuts

    Kevin Gallagher and Katherine Koleski

    Kevin Gallagher and Katherine Koleski: Slashing aid may seem like a no-brainer for congressional budget-cutters, but aid isn't charity; it's business. Ask China

September 2011

  • President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks during a Rural Economic Forum

    double quotation markThe false promise of Obama's trade deals

    Kevin Gallagher and Timothy Wise

    Kevin Gallagher and Timothy Wise: '21st-century' trade deals proposed by the Obama administration won't help American workers – and will hurt foreign ones

July 2011

  • Barack Obama and George Bush at the White House

    double quotation markGOP bad faith on the debt ceiling

    Kevin Gallagher
  • athens syntagma greece

    double quotation markRestructuring Greece's debt crisis

    Kevin Gallagher

June 2011

  • Agustín Carstens, Mexico's central bank governor

    double quotation markWhy Agustín Carstens should not be next head of the IMF

    Kevin Gallagher

    Kevin Gallagher: Breaking Europe's monopoly over the IMF is fine, but Mexico's central banker is a disciple of failed Chicago School economics

May 2011

  • John Boehner shutdown averted 8 April 2011

    double quotation markWhy the US must raise its debt ceiling

    Kevin Gallagher

    Kevin Gallagher: The fragility of the US economy means that an ill-advised round of budget-cutting now could drag down global growth

April 2011

  • The IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn

    Poverty matters blog
    double quotation markThe IMF's welcome rethink on capital controls

    Kevin Gallagher and José Antonio Ocampo

    Kevin Gallagher and José Antonio Ocampo: During the global recession, many developing countries found capital controls a vital policy tool – a fact the IMF now recognises

March 2011

  • panama canal notes and queries

    Poverty matters blog
    double quotation markThe end of the 'Washington consensus'

    Kevin Gallagher

    Kevin Gallagher: For decades, the US was able to dominate Latin America with trade deals. Now China offers a new model of development

January 2011

  • World Bank IMF Spring Meetings

    Poverty matters blog
    double quotation markWhy global trade treaties need fixing

    Kevin Gallagher
  • China renewable energy solar

    Cif green
    double quotation markUS should exercise green power

    Kevin Gallagher

November 2010

  • Bjorn Lomborg

    Cif green
    double quotation markCancún and the new economics of climate change

    Kevin Gallagher and Frank Ackerman
  • US President Barack Obama (R) shakes han

    double quotation markHow the US can fix its QE2 problem

    Kevin Gallagher and Stephany Griffith-Jones
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