International Development

Experts in health, education, governance, energy and social justice collaborate to learn how different levers of action can impact communities.

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The Political Economy of Antipoverty Policies in Latin America

Alberto Díaz-Cayeros examines how conditional cash transfers have improved targeting in favor of the poor and become increasingly popular among politicians and policy makers, and whether these programs have shifted policy discretion away from political clientelism.

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Countering Brain Drain Through Circulation and Linkage: Illustrations and Lessons from China and India

A new framework uses the experiences of China and India to understand how circulation and transnational linkages are affecting the adverse impacts brain drain has on countries of different sizes, levels of development, and geographic regions.

Reimagining Aid

Mary-Collier Wilks investigates the intricate interplay between aid donors from Japan and the United States, their competing priorities, and their impact on women's health initiatives in Cambodia.

Featured Scholars

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Lisa Blaydes

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Associate Professor of Political Science

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Jennifer Burney

Deputy Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

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Alberto Díaz-Cayeros

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Affiliated faculty, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law

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Prashant Loyalka

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education

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Journal Articles

The Global Potential of Bioenergy on Abandoned Agricultural Lands

Environmental Science and Technology, 2008

Books

Proliferation of International Dispute Settlement Mechanisms: The Threat of Fragmentation vs. the Promise of a More Effective System? - Some Reflections from the Perspective of Investment Arbitration

Martinus Nijhoff Publishers in "International Law between Universalism and Fragmentation - Festschrift in Honour of Gerhard Hafner", J. Crawford/A. Pellet/I. Buffard/S. Wittich (eds.), 2008

Journal Articles

Genetically modified rice, yields, and pesticides: Assessing farm-level productivity effects in China

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2008

Journal Articles

Estimation of the carbon dioxide (CO2) fertilization effect using growth rate anomalies of CO2 and crop yields since 1961

Global Change Biology, 2008

Abstracts

Health Impact Assessment of Global Climate Change: Expanding upon Comparative Risk Assessment Approaches for Policy Making

Annual Reviews of Public Health, 2008

Working Papers