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International Development

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

Research Spotlight

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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.

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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.

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Featured Scholars

https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/people/lisa_blaydes

Lisa Blaydes

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Associate Professor of Political Science

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https://fse.fsi.stanford.edu/people/jennifer_burney

Jennifer Burney

Deputy Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Burney Full Bio

https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/people/alberto_d%C3%ADazcayeros

Alberto Díaz-Cayeros

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

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

Díaz-Cayeros Full Bio

prashant loyalka

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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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Publications

Journal Articles

Provider Payment Incentives: International Comparisons

International Journal of Healthcare Finance and Economics, 2009

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Pediatricians and health literacy: Descriptive results from a national survey

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Pediatrics, 2009

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Greater Transportation Energy and GHG Offsets from Bioelectricity Than Ethanol

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Science, 2009

Books

Biofuel Subsidies and the Green Box

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Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2009

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Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World

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Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Do markets respond to quality information? the case of fertility clinics

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Journal of Health Economics, 2009

Policy Briefs

REAP Brief #107: Barriers for the Rural Poor on the Road to College

2009

Books

Kleptocratic Interdependence: Trafficking, Corruption and the Marriage of Politics and Illicit Profits

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Brookings Institution Press in "Corruption, Global Security and World Order", Robert I. Rotberg, ed., 2009

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Soft Budget Constraints in China: Evidence from the Guangdong Hospital Industry

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International Journal of Healthcare Finance and Economics, 2009

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Parental misinterpretations of over-the-counter pediatric cough and cold medication labels

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Pediatrics, 2009

Working Papers

Design of Semantic Information Systems using a Model-based Approach

AAAI Spring Symposium, AAAI Press in "Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0", 2009

Books

Agriculture: The Dog that Didn't Bark?

World Bank and CEPR: Washington, 2009

Journal Articles

Human Resource Management Technology Diffusion through Global Supply Chains: Buyer-Directed Factory-Based Health Care in India

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World Development, 2009

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The influence of economic incentives and regulatory factors on the adoption of treatment technologies: A case study of technologies used to treat heart attacks

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Health Economics, 2009

Policy Briefs

REAP Brief #104: Are Compassionate Heart Scholars Compassionate? Smart? Confident?

2009

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Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan

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Harvard Business Review, 2009

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Effects of Externally Rated Job Demand and Control on Depression Diagnosis Claims in an Industrial Cohort

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American Journal of Epidemiology, 2009

Working Papers

Principal-Agent Problems in Health Care: Evidence from Prescribing Patterns of Private Providers in Vietnam

Asia Health Policy Program working paper #12, 2009

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Aging in America in the Twenty-first Century: Demographic Forecasts from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society

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The Milbank Quarterly, 2009

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Malnutrition in China's Rural Boarding Schools: the Case of Primary Schools in Shaanxi Province

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Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009

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Development Challenges, Tuition Barriers and High School Education in China

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Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009

Working Papers

Agricultural Lives of the Poor

Program on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University, 2009

Books

Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why We Should and How We Can

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009

Testimonies

Congressional Subcommittee Hearing on Reassessing the Evolving al-Qai'da Threat to the Homeland

House Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment, 2009

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Potential Impact of U.S. Biofuels on Regional Climate

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Geophysical Research Letters, 2009