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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

Working Papers

Political and Economic Influences on the Future World Market for Natural Gas

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2005

Policy Briefs

Preventing Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Terrorism: Essential Steps to Reduce the Availability of Nuclear-Explosive Materials

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CISAC/PS&GS, 2005

Working Papers

Market Emergence and the Rise and Fall of Backyard Hog Production in China

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2005

Working Papers

Baker Institute World Gas Trade Model, The

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2005

Journal Articles

Invariance and Inconsistency in Utility Ratings

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Medical Decision Making, 2005

Working Papers

Indian Federalism and the Conduct of Foreign Policy in Border States: State Participation and Central Accommodation

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Shorenstein APARC, 2005

Journal Articles

Listening to Patients: Cultural and Linguistic Barriers to Health Care Access

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Family Medicine, 2005

Journal Articles

The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: The Twentieth Century United States

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Demography, 2005

Working Papers

Experience with Independent Power Projects (IPPs) in Developing Countries: Interim Report, The

Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #39, 2005

Journal Articles

A Herd Mentality in the Design of International Environmental Agreements?

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Global Environmental Politics, 2005

Working Papers

Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2005

Working Papers

Politics, Markets, and the Shift to Gas: Insights from Seven Historical Case Studies

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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #35, 2005

Working Papers

Chronic Disease Burden and the Interaction of Education, Fertility and Growth

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2005

Working Papers

Baseline for carbon emissions in the Indian and Chinese power sectors: implications for international carbon trading

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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #34, 2005

Journal Articles

Rebuilding Weak States

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Foreign Affairs, 2005

Journal Articles

Combining Field Surveys, Remote Sensing and Regression Trees to Understand Yield Variations in an Irrigated Wheat Landscape

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Agronomy Journal, 2005

Newsletters

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, winter 2005 issue

CHP/PCOR, 2005

Working Papers

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Vol. 3: Hypertension Care

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Stanford-UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center, for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2005

Journal Articles

Patterns of Corporate Restructuring in China: Political Constraints on Privatization

China Journal, 2005

Journal Articles

Hybrid Maize - A maize simulation model that combines two crop modeling approaches

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Field Crops Research, 2004

Books

The Vicious Cycle of Inequality in Latin America

University of California Press, in "What Justice? Whose Justice?", 2004

Books

America the Vulnerable: How our Government is Failing to Protect us from Terrorism

HarperCollins, 2004

Journal Articles

An Unaddressed Issue of Agricultural Terrorism: A Case Study on Feed Security

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Journal of Animal Science, 2004

Books

America's Role in Asia in 2004: An Overview

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The Asia Foundation, 2004

Books

Promoting Real Reform in Africa

Lynne Rienner Publishers in "Democratic Reform in Africa: The Quality of Progress", E. Gyimah-Boadi, ed., 2004