International Development

Experts in health, education, governance, energy and social justice collaborate to learn how different levers of action can impact communities.

Research Spotlight

Causes of Indonesia’s Forest Fires

New research features a 30,000-village case study of the 2015 fire season on Sumatra and Kalimantan and asks which villages, for a given level of spatial fire risk, are more likely to have fire.

Fateful Decisions: Choices That Will Shape China's Future

Experts provide a cutting-edge analytic framework for understanding the decisions that will determine China's trajectory.

Do Immigrants Assimilate More Slowly Today Than in the Past?

Using millions of historical census records and modern birth certificates, new research documents that immigrants assimilated into U.S. society at similar rates in the past and present.

Featured Scholars

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Lisa Blaydes

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Associate Professor of Political Science

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Ertharin Cousin

Visiting Scholar at the Center on Food Security and the Environment

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Alberto Díaz-Cayeros

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Affiliated faculty, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law

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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

Journal Articles

CABG versus PCI for multivessel coronary artery disease - authors' reply

The Lancet, 2009

Books

Coping with Climate Risks in Indonesia Rice Agriculture: A Policy Perspective

Springer in "Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making", 2009

Journal Articles

Decade of the Brain, of the Mind – or of Reason? The IV. Preparatory Conference for A "Decade of Consciousness 2010-2020“

Berliner Debatte Initial. Zeitschrift für sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskurs. Herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Publizistik Berlin, 2009

Journal Articles

Switch from enfuvirtide to raltegravir in virologically suppressed HIV-1 infected patients: Effects on level of residual viremia and quality of life

Journal of Clinical Virology, 2009

Journal Articles

Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Vaccination Against Pandemic Influenza (H1N1) 2009

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2009

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Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Expanded Antiviral Prophylaxis and Adjuvanted Vaccination Strategies for an Influenza A (H5N1) Pandemic

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2009

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