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<title>Trustee Chair Robert Knox Endows Professorship</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:42:37 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Robert and Jeanne Knox Foundation has given BU $2.5 million to create a professorship named for Robert Knox, with Jonathon Simon, a School of Public Health professor and chair of international health, the inaugural Robert A. Knox Professor. Simon, who leads BUâ€™s Center for Global Health and Development (CGHD), has spent a quarter century battling childhood illnesses and death in the developing world.]]></description>
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<title>Development That Works: Lunchtime Remarks by Dean Virginia Sapiro and Professor John R. Harris</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:18:08 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[More than 100 people convened at Boston University for Development That Works, an all-day conference that brought together leading scholars and practitioners to discuss development ideas that have the potential to lead to sustainable and effective growth worldwide.

The conference included a special lunchtime address by Virginia Sapiro, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, and a tribute to John R. Harris, a CAS professor of economics whose landmark 1970 paper on migration, unemployment, and development was recently selected as one of the top 20 papers published by the American Economic Review in the past 100 years.

Sponsored by the BU Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, in collaboration with the BU Global Development Program, the conference was organized by Kevin Gallagher, a CAS associate professor of international relations, Jonathon Simon, an SPH professor of international health and director of the BU Center for Global Health & Development, Dilip Mookherjee, a CAS professor of economics and director of the BU Institute for Economic Development, and Adil Najam, a CAS professor of international relations and director of the Pardee Center. Panel leaders discussed everything from global development policy to local programs that deliver education, health, and poverty alleviation services to rural villages in Africa and Asia.

Hosted by the Pardee Center for the Study of Longer-Range Future, in conjunction with the Boston University Global Development Program, on March 31, 2011.]]></description>
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<title>Development That Works: Economic Development</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:24:24 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[More than 100 people convened at Boston University for Development That Works, an all-day conference that brought together leading scholars and practitioners to discuss development ideas that have the potential to lead to sustainable and effective growth worldwide.

The fourth and final session brought together a panel of leading economists that examined evidence on economic development. Chaired by Dilip Mookherjee, a CAS professor of economics and director of the BU Institute for Economic Development, speakers included Abhijit V. Banerjee, a Ford Foundation international professor of economics and director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT; Mark Rosenzweig, a Frank Altschul professor of international economics and director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University; and Asim Ijaz Khwaja, a professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Panel members discussed the impact of development interventions and highlighted the need for deeper and more systematic enquiries on the matter.

Sponsored by the BU Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, in collaboration with the BU Global Development Program, the conference was organized by Mookherjee, Kevin Gallagher, a CAS associate professor of international relations, Jonathon Simon, an SPH professor of international health and director of the BU Center for Global Health & Development, and Adil Najam, a CAS professor of international relations and director of the Pardee Center. Panel leaders discussed everything from global development policy to local programs that deliver education, health, and poverty alleviation services to rural villages in Africa and Asia.

Hosted by the Pardee Center for the Study of Longer-Range Future, in conjunction with the Boston University Global Development Program, on March 31, 2011.]]></description>
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<title>Development That Works: Making Smart Investments</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:16:41 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[More than 100 people convened at Boston University for Development That Works, an all-day conference that brought together leading scholars and practitioners to discuss development ideas that have the potential to lead to sustainable and effective growth worldwide.

The second panel focused on investing in development that works. Chaired by Jonathon Simon, an SPH professor of international health and director of the BU Center for Global Health & Development, speakers included Nancy MacPherson, managing director of evaluation for the Rockefeller Foundation; Iqbal Z. Quadir, an MIT professor of development and entrepreneurship and founder and director of MITâ€™s Legatum Center; and Doug Balfour, chief executive officer of Geneva Global. Panel members discussed the types of qualities that are required to seed development through philanthropy, as well as enterprise and innovation.

Sponsored by the BU Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, in collaboration with the BU Global Development Program, the conference was organized by Simon, Kevin Gallagher, a CAS associate professor of international relations, Dilip Mookherjee, a CAS professor of economics and director of the BU Institute for Economic Development, and Adil Najam, a CAS professor of international relations and director of the Pardee Center. Panel leaders discussed everything from global development policy to local programs that deliver education, health, and poverty alleviation services to rural villages in Africa and Asia.

Hosted by the Pardee Center for the Study of Longer-Range Future, in conjunction with the Boston University Global Development Program, on March 31, 2011.]]></description>
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<title>Development That Works: Global Economic Governance</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:04:49 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[More than 100 people convened at Boston University for Development That Works, an all-day conference that brought together leading scholars and practitioners to discuss development ideas that have the potential to lead to sustainable and effective growth worldwide.

The first panel discussed issues relating to global economic governance. Chaired by Kevin Gallagher, a CAS associate professor of international relations, speakers included Robert Wade, a professor of political economy and development at the London School of Economics; Gerald Epstein, a professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Amar Bhattacharya, director of G-24. Topics focused on global economic institutions and ways that global economic architecture could affect global development as characterized by the rise of emerging economies amid the current financial crisis.

Sponsored by the BU Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, in collaboration with the BU Global Development Program, the conference was organized by Gallagher, Dilip Mookherjee, a CAS professor of economics and director of the BU Institute for Economic Development, Jonathon Simon, an SPH professor of international health and director of the BU Center for Global Health & Development, and Adil Najam, a CAS professor of international relations and director of the Pardee Center. Panel leaders discussed everything from global development policy to local programs that deliver education, health, and poverty alleviation services to rural villages in Africa and Asia.

Hosted by the Pardee Center for the Study of Longer-Range Future, in conjunction with the Boston University Global Development Program, on March 31, 2011.]]></description>
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<title>Development That Works: Social Enterprise</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:23:02 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[More than 100 people convened at Boston University for Development That Works, an all-day conference that brought together leading scholars and practitioners to discuss development ideas that have the potential to lead to sustainable and effective growth worldwide.

The third panel focused on social enterprise. Chaired by Adil Najam, a CAS professor of international relations and director of the Pardee Center, speakers included Una Ryan, chief executive officer of Diagnostics For All; Liam Brody, senior vice president of Root Capital; Kabir Kumar, a microfinance analyst for the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor; and Calestous Juma, a professor of international development and director of the Science, Technology & Globalization Project at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Panel members highlighted developments in a range of areas, including health care for the poor, environment, finance, telecommunication, and agriculture. 

Sponsored by the BU Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, in collaboration with the BU Global Development Program, the conference was organized by Najam, Kevin Gallagher, a CAS associate professor of international relations, Jonathon Simon, an SPH professor of international health and director of the BU Center for Global Health & Development, and Dilip Mookherjee, a CAS professor of economics and director of the BU Institute for Economic Development. Panel leaders discussed everything from global development policy to local programs that deliver education, health, and poverty alleviation services to rural villages in Africa and Asia.

Hosted by the Pardee Center for the Study of Longer-Range Future, in conjunction with the Boston University Global Development Program, on March 31, 2011.]]></description>
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<title>Good News from Africa: Session I</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:14:11 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The all-day conference Good News from Africa, part of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future Africa 2060 research program, brings together leading experts on Africa to present critical assessments of the continentâ€™s current trends in social, cultural, political, and economic development in four discussion panels. The first, on social development, is an analysis of the quality and number of peace studies programs in Africa, as well as discussions about cell phone emergence in Kenya and pesticide exposure in relation to the health of South African female workers. 

Hosted by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 16, 2010.]]></description>
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