United States | Senior Academic Researcher, Global Development Policy Center, Boston University
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Rebecca Ray is a senior research associate at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and an MA in international development from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Since 2013, she has focused her Global Development Policy Center research on Latin America, including the annual China-Latin America Economic Bulletin series, the book project China and Sustainable Development in Latin America: the Social and Environmental Dimension, and her current project, Safeguarding Sustainable Development in the Andean Amazon.
Ray was an event speaker at the Dialogue.
In 2023, China’s development finance institution (DFI) issued two loans totaling $1.3 billion to Brazil. Chinese DFI lending in 2023 was slightly higher than the $863 million issued by CDB and Ex-Im Bank in 2022. Despite this slight increase, China’s sovereign lending remains modest.
In the newest episode of The China-Global South Project Podcast, Margaret Myers, director of the Asia and Latin America Program at the Inter-American Dialogue, considered new trends in Chinese economic engagement with the LAC region.
Margaret Myers and Rebecca Ray wrote for The China Global South Project on Chinese Finance to LAC in 2022.
