We use high resolution satellite data on the proportion of buildings in a 250x250 meter cell to study the evolution of human settlement in Ghana over a 40 year period. We find a strong increase in...
This case examines the environmental permitting process leading up to the construction of the Bui Dam, the second largest hydropower facility in Ghana.
Casey Maue, a PhD student in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources alogn with Woods Institute Senior Fellow, Erica Plambeck, spent time this spring examining the oil...
CDDRL undergraduate honors student, Belinda Tang, received the David M. Kennedy Prize for her research on quota systems for women in local governments in Lesotho.
The initiative recognizes that the complex challenges faced by the poor in developing economies are multifaceted and require the engagement of experts from a variety of academic disciplines.
The Global Development and Poverty Initiative Seminar Series kicks off the 2016 school year with a presentation of one of its most exciting and timely capacity-building projects, "Poverty...
Abstract: It is almost too obvious to state, but access to public services and the nature of governance varies hugely within countries, regions and cities.
Abstract: Election observation is central to democracy promotion efforts around the world, yet relatively little is known about observers' effects on electoral quality. Do election observers deter...
This project focuses on private and public sector strategies for promoting sustainable palm oil, with sustainability defined by environmental, social, and economic objectives.
As democracy has spread over the past three decades to a majority of the world's states, analytic attention has turned increasingly from explaining regime transitions to evaluating and explaining...
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Larry DiamondMosbacher Senior Fellow in Global DemocracySenior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Rosamond L. NaylorSenior FellowWilliam Wrigley Professor of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Senior Fellow and Founding Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment