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.

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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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

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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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Books

WTO Compliance and Domestic Farm Policy Change

The Economic Impact of Public Support in Agriculture: An International Perspective; Studies in Productivity and Efficiency; Springer (New York), 2010

Books

Growing Pains

2010

Journal Articles

Culture, Sustainability and Medicine in the 21st Century. Re-Grounding the Focus of Medicine Amidst the Current "Global Systemic Shift“ and the Forces of the Market: Elements for a Contemporary Social Philosophy of Medicine

International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 2010

Abstracts

National Food Regulations and WTO Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement: Implications for Trade-Related Measures to Promote Healthy Diets

Trade, Food Diet and Health: Perspectives and Policy Options, Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, 2010

Journal Articles

Matching outpatient prosthetics order records in the VA National Prosthetics Patient Database (NPPD) to health care utilization databases

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 2010

Journal Articles

Designing an automated clinical decision support system to match clinical practice guidelines for opioid therapy for chronic pain

Implementation Science, 2010

Working Papers