On Thursday, February 23rd, a diverse crowd of over 30 professors and graduate students gathered at Bar Basso in midtown Manhattan for the 4th AAG Development Geographies Specialty Group’s Pre-Conference. Seven presenters each delivered a seven-minute policy plea on issues ranging from land use and fair trade certification “on the ground” to the management of e-waste, Vietnam’s recent [...]
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DGSG pre-conference in New York City: successful pilot of a new interactive format
Posted in Development Theory, Health and Development, International Politics on February 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
New CGD working paper on health aid effectiveness ranks DFID highest, UN low
Posted in Health and Development, International Politics on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Building on the growing body of empirical literature on aid effectiveness–including two of my recent publications–Amanda Glassman and Denizhan Duran at the Center for Global Development just published an interesting working paper that achieves two things simultaneously: it provides an excellent overview of the dramatic increase of Development Assistance in Health (DAH) globally during the past [...]
Why don’t American cities burn?
Posted in Peace and Conflict, Urban Politics on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I recently attended UPenn Prof. Michael Katz’s book talk at the New America Foundation. In Why Don’t American Cities Burn, Katz offers a historical analysis of the systemic and social constraints to violent collective action by minorities in U.S. cities which, Katz argues, result from a set of profound economic and political transformations. Although I [...]
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