International Development

FSI researchers consider international development from a variety of angles. They analyze ideas such as how public action and good governance are cornerstones of economic prosperity in Mexico and how investments in high school education will improve China’s economy.

They are looking at novel technological interventions to improve rural livelihoods, like the development implications of solar power-generated crop growing in Northern Benin.

FSI academics also assess which political processes yield better access to public services, particularly in developing countries. With a focus on health care, researchers have studied the political incentives to embrace UNICEF’s child survival efforts and how a well-run anti-alcohol policy in Russia affected mortality rates.

FSI’s work on international development also includes training the next generation of leaders through pre- and post-doctoral fellowships as well as the Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program.

State-Level Electricity Reforms: Impacts on Technology, Institutions and Environment

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War in Iraq: Implications for Asia and U.S.-Asian Relations

Wednesday, April 9, 2003 | 11:30 AM -Wednesday, April 9, 2003 | 1:00 PM

How is the American-led war in Iraq affecting Asian countries and their relations with the United States? Is a clash of civilizations underway? Will Islamist rage in Southeast Asia spawn terrorist attacks on Americans there? Will Islamist parties in Indonesia be able to ride this wave of anger into power in the elections to be held in April 2004? Will the regime in North Korea take advantage of American preoccupations in Iraq and Afghanistan to escalate tensions in Northeast Asia? How will the economies of Southeast and Northeast Asia be affected by the conflict in Iraq? Will Washington's priority on ousting Saddam Hussein undermine its effort to stabilize Afghanistan? And what will the repercussions in Asia be if, against the expectation of many observers, the Iraq war turns out to be short and the seeds of Iraqi democracy are successfully sown?

Founders Room, 5th floor
Public Policy Institute of California
500 Washington Street, San Francisco

Robert Scalapino Professor Emeritus Panelist Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Theordore Eliot, Jr. Dean Emeritus Panelist Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Greg Fealy Visiting Professor Panelist School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Workshops

China's Progress toward Capital Account Convertibility

Tuesday, April 8, 2003 | 5:00 PM -Tuesday, April 8, 2003 | 6:00 PM

This is third Huang Lian Memorial Lecture at the Center for Economic Development and Policy Reform at Stanford University.

Conference Room A
Landau Economics Building
Stanford University

Lawrence J Lau Professor Speaker

Seminars

Science, politics, and the environment: a snapshot

Thursday, May 29, 2003 | 3:30 PM -Thursday, May 29, 2003 | 5:00 PM

Fourth Floor Conference Room - Encina Hall East

Donald Kennedy

CESP
Stanford University
Encina Hall E401
Stanford, CA 94305

1931 - 2020

President Emeritus of Stanford University

Bing Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Emeritus

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Donald Kennedy is the editor-in-chief of Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a CESP senior fellow by courtesy. His present research program entails policy on such trans-boundary environmental problems as: major land-use changes; economically-driven alterations in agricultural practice; global climate change; and the development of regulatory policies.

Kennedy has served on the faculty of Stanford University from 1960 to the present. From 1980 to 1992 he served as President of Stanford University. He was Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration from 1977-79. Previously at Stanford, he was as director of the Program in Human Biology from 1973-1977 and chair of the Department of Biology from 1964-1972.

Kennedy is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He served on the National Commission for Public Service and the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government, and as a founding director of the Health Effects Institute. He currently serves as a director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and as co-chair of the National Academies' Project on Science, Technology and Law. Kennedy received AB and PhD degrees in biology from Harvard University.

FSI Senior Fellow by courtesy

Donald Kennedy Professor Emeritus Speaker

Workshops