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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

Blaydes Full Bio

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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Policy Briefs

Should Democracy Be Promoted or Demoted?

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Washington Quarterly, 2007

Journal Articles

Protective Resources and Long-Term Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorders

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Drug Alcohol Dependence, 2007

Working Papers

Capital Account Liberalization: Theory, Evidence, and Speculation

CDDRL Working Papers, 2007

Working Papers

Closing the Quality Gap: A Crtical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Vol. 6: Healthcare-Associated Infections

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Stanford-UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center, for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2007

Working Papers

Village Elections, Public Goods Investments and Pork Barrel Politics, Chinese-style

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2007

Journal Articles

How Globalization Went Bad

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Foreign Policy, 2007

Working Papers

Capital Account Liberalization, the Cost of Capital, and Economic Growth

CDDRL Working Papers, 2007

Working Papers

The Role of Agriculture in China's Development: Past Failures, Present Successes and Future Challenges

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2007

Journal Articles

Explaining Suicide Terrorism: A Review Essay

Security Studies, 2007

Journal Articles

Substance Use Disorder Treatment Programs in Switzerland and the USA: Program Characteristics and 1-Year Outcomes

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Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2007

Working Papers

Firm-Specific Information and the Efficiency of Investment

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2007

Journal Articles

Personal and Treatment-Related Predictors of Abstinence Self-Efficacy

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Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2007

Working Papers

Water price policy analysis in China: an experimental approach

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2007

Working Papers

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Vol. 5: Asthma

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Stanford-UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center, for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2007

Working Papers

Do Stock Market Liberalizations Cause Investment Booms?

CDDRL Working Papers, 2007

Journal Articles

The Emergence of Agricultural Commodity Markets in China

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China Economic Review, 2007

Journal Articles

Data withholding and the next generation of scientists: Results of a national survey

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Academic Medicine, 2006

Books

Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia: The Korean Experience

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Routledge, 2006

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Humanitarian Intervention and Relation Sovereignty

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Springer in "Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture: Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory", 2006

Journal Articles

Climbing the development ladder: Economic development and the evolution of occupations in rural China

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Journal of Development Studies, 2006

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Scientization: Making a World Safe for Organizing

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Cambridge University Press, in "Transnational Governance: Institutional Dynamics of Regulation", 2006

Journal Articles

Medium-term Integration Effects on Norwegian Agriculture: A Partial Equilibrium Analysis

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Food Economics, 2006

Journal Articles

Definition of Metabolic Syndrome in Preadolescent Girls

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Journal of Pediatrics, 2006

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An Official ATS Statement: Grading the Quality of Evidence and Strength of Recommendations in ATS Guidelines and Recommendations

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American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2006

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Worldwide Expansion and Change in the University

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transcript Verlag, in "Towards a Multiversity? Universities between Global Trends and National Traditions", 2006