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 [...]
About.com and Good Generation posts on Kara’s and my World Development article
Posted in Health and Development, International Politics on January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A colleague (thanks, John!) just alerted me that Joanne Fritz, in a recent post on About.com, included a really neat discussion of Kara’s and my recent article in World Development as “Food For Thought“. Thien Nguyen-Trung also covered the piece and posted an excellent summary and comments on his blog, Good Generation.
Who Sets the Aid Agenda, and Why Does That Matter?
Posted in Health and Development, Urban Politics on December 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
AU staff writer Sally Acharya recently interviewed me for the American Magazine. The article provides a neat summary of my current research. Kudos and thanks to Sally!
Gary Gaile Development Geographies Pre-Conference in DC
Posted in Afghanistan, Development Theory, Health and Development, International Politics, Urban Politics on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Development Geographies Specialty Group of the AAG is delighted to present the “Gary Gaile Development Geographies Pre-Conference” in Washington, DC, a one-day event in April 2010 which is themed around innovative policies and approaches emerging at the interface of research and practice. Merging debate around cutting edge research and acute practical challenges, the format [...]
New Essay in Ethics & International Affairs
Posted in Development Theory, Health and Development on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Is more money for global health always good news? No, I am arguing in this lead essay in Ethics & International Affairs (Carnegie Council). Many of the problems that plague decision-making in global health assistance lie not in the global South but in the North, where the monetary flows originate and where most policies are [...]
Afghanistan: A Victory for Women – A Defeat of Democracy?
Posted in Afghanistan, Health and Development, International Politics, Peace and Conflict on July 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Afghan Ministry of Justice has presented a revised version of a new law regulating marital affairs for the country’s Shi’ite minority. Many of its previous medieval provisions have been scrapped. No longer does it prescribe the frequency of sexual activity that Shi’ite women in Afghanistan would have had to observe, thus practically legalizing domestic [...]
What Makes Global Health Political?
Posted in Development Theory, Health and Development on June 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Lawrence Gostin, in a recent scholarly op-ed in JAMA, has argued passionately that health inequality is deeply unethical. I fully agree. The question is how the current architecture of global health assistance can be changed so that it becomes more responsive to the unethical reality of global health disparities. I just finished an essay for [...]
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