Author: Mugdha Gurram

GEGI Speaker Series: Nitsan Chorev on the Pharmaceutical Industry and Foreign Aid

Nitsan Chorev joined the Global Development Policy Center this week to start off the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) Speaker Series. Speaking about her latest book, “Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa,” the Brown University Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International Studies spoke about the relationship between […]

Practicing Development: Managing Ambiguity & Contradiction with Dr. Susan Holcombe

Dr. Susan Holcombe joined the Global Development Policy Center this week to discuss the subject of her latest co-edited volume, Practicing Development: Upending Assumptions for Positive Change. Dr. Holcombe, a Professor Emerita of the Practice at Brandeis University, said she was inspired to work on the book after realizing that narratives from the global north dominated […]

GCI Colloquium: Cecilia Han Springer on China’s Overseas Coal Plants

Cecilia Han Springer joined the Global Development Policy Center this past Wednesday to kick off the GDP Center’s Global China Initiative Speaker Series. In a talk titled “Exceptional Investments: Analyzing the Relative Environmental Performance of China’s Overseas Coal Plants,” Han Springer shared her work analyzing the energy sector, the portion of China’s One Belt One […]