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Apr 5 2019 | Posted In: Announcements, Center on Global Poverty and Development News
Center faculty affiliate Roz Naylor is one of three Stanford faculty elected as 2019 Ecological Society of America (ESA) Fellows.
Apr 3 2019 | Posted In: Center on Global Poverty and Development News
A recent case study by researchers including Center faculty affiliate Gretchen Daily demonstrates that Chinese farmers who took environmental concerns into account doubled their incomes and reduced reliance on a single harvest while also gaining environmental benefits from the land.
Mar 29 2019 | Posted In: Announcements, Center on Global Poverty and Development News
The 12th China Economics Summer Institute (CESI) will take place on August 17-18, 2019 at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. Papers must be submitted by May 6, 2019.
Mar 29 2019 | Posted In: In the News, Center on Global Poverty and Development News
Suicide rates increase in warmer temperatures, leading to concerns about an uptick in suicides as Earth continues to warm. But researchers offer some hope if greenhouse gases get under control.
Mar 21 2019 | Posted In: In the News, Center on Global Poverty and Development News
An estimated 210,000 girls may have “gone missing” due to China’s “Later, Longer, Fewer” campaign, a birth planning policy predating the One Child Policy, according to a new study published by the Center for Global Development and co-authored by Grant Miller, Director of the Stanford Center on... Read More
Mar 19 2019 | Posted In: Meet the Researchers
Meredith Startz is the inaugural postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford King Center on Global Development. In a Q&A with the Center, she shares some of her research experience.
Mar 19 2019 | Posted In: In the News, Center on Global Poverty and Development News
Stanford researchers explore how crop nutrition — zinc and iron, for instance — will respond to climate change and what that means for human health.
Mar 12 2019 | Posted In: Meet the Researchers, Center on Global Poverty and Development News
Sanjay Basu has dedicated much of his career to challenging common assumptions about health care and proposing new approaches to disease prevention and treatment, combining the fields of computer science, epidemiology, and economics.
Feb 22 2019 | Posted In: In the News, Center on Global Poverty and Development News
In a recent VoxDev article based on a 2018 working paper, economist and Center faculty affiliate Melanie Morten and her co-author Gharad Bryan put forth that "removing barriers to internal migration can boost a country’s productivity, albeit modestly and with heterogonous effects on original... Read More
Feb 1 2019 | Posted In: Announcements, Center on Global Poverty and Development News
You can now watch the full Speaker Series session featuring economist Michael Kremer, who discussed various innovatitve approaches to global development. Nicholas Bloom moderated the audience Q&A session that followed.
The Speaker Series features talks by distinguished scholars and policymakers... Read More
