Center News
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Making work work for women
The inaugural Future of Work for Women Summit offered solutions to increase women's participation in the workforce.
May 28, 2025
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Political economist takes on role as new faculty director of the King Center
Stanford GSB Professor Katherine Casey seeks to improve democratic processes in developing countries.
September 05, 2024
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S3 sparks change maker conversations from around the world
The inaugural Stanford Sustainability Summit, S3, convened global climate innovators to forge new connections.
July 12, 2024
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Q&A with King Center Visitor Rema Hanna
Hanna describes her time at the King Center as a Noosheen Hashemi Visiting Professor.
April 17, 2024
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King Center initiative: Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change in the Global South
Climate adaptation efforts being carried out across the Global South will be collated to help shape future climate protection.
March 07, 2024
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King Center initiative: Climate Change and Political Mobilization in the Global South
New research will equip policymakers and scholars with data on how climate change is shaping politics in the Global South.
March 07, 2024
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October 23, 2023
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Stanford King Center on Global Development welcomes new faculty director
Katherine Casey, professor of political economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), will start in autumn 2024.
July 05, 2023
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October 31, 2022
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Beatriz Magaloni awarded the Stockholm Prize in Criminology
Faculty Affiliate Beatriz Magaloni provides important evidence that police organizations are vulnerable to populist demands for harsh police methods that violate the rule of law.
October 18, 2022
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King Center welcomes two Postdoctoral Fellows and five Predoctoral Research Fellows
The seven scholars will arrive at Stanford from Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Mauritius, Nigeria, and Sudan.
July 25, 2022
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2022 Global Development Photo Contest
Where are your summer plans taking you?
May 26, 2022
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Transforming India’s sanitation policy and practice
In a country of over a billion people with dense urban centers and sparse rural regions, how can the government prevent open defecation?
February 19, 2022
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King Center launches predoctoral program
The new two-year multidisciplinary program is designed to prepare individuals from low- and middle-income countries for careers in academic research focused on global development.
August 26, 2021
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Harnessing digital technologies to advance global precision health and development
A panel of experts discussed technology's vast potential to promote public health and its many challenges
July 16, 2021
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The COVID-19 vaccine era is here. What comes next is complicated.
In the third session of the Stanford China Economic Forum, top medical experts from Stanford and China convened to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic.
December 11, 2020
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A ‘very critical moment’: The future of U.S.-China ties under Biden
The question is top of mind for anyone who has followed the downward spiral of U.S.-China relations over the last four years: What happens once Joseph Biden Jr. becomes president?
November 20, 2020
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Business schools must also teach students to be role models in society, education leaders say
As the world contends with extraordinary disruption, education leaders from the U.S. and China shared how their schools are responding to these crises.
October 19, 2020
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Welcome to the new academic year
A letter from Faculty Director Pascaline Dupas
September 22, 2020
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New King Center faculty director talks future plans, research during COVID-19
Economist Pascaline Dupas spoke with The Stanford Daily about her plans for the King Center during her term as Faculty Director.
September 21, 2020
