Inequity in the distribution of wealth both within countries and among them and the need to support local economies “at the bottom of the pyramid” were recurring themes in a conversation about trade and development at the Pardee Center’s “Future Challenges” seminar on April 7. Thirty people participated in the second lunch time seminar in […]
The Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on May 27 hosted a special one-day workshop of Middle East scholars to discuss plans for a collabortive project looking at the future of the Middle East and South Asia in terms of the region’s economic, cultural and geopolitical significance in the global community. Boston University […]
The Pardee Center partners with the Global Health Initiative at Boston University and the BU School of Public Health to host the next Pardee House Seminar on June 11, 2008. The Seminar will feature leading public health experts from India and from BU.
The Pardee Center at Boston University will host the Secretariat of the Human Development Capability Association (HDCA), an “association that promotes research from many disciplines on problems related to impoverishment, justice, and well-being.” The secretariat had been hosted by the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University before this.
Pardee Center Research Fellow Kevin P. Gallagher appeared on Bloomberg Television’s "In Focus" program on May 5 in a segment discussing the U.S. presidential elections and the economic impacts of NAFTA in Mexico.
The Pardee Center at Boston University will support the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative’s (OPHI’s) summer workshop on “Measuring Freedoms” on May 28-30, 2008. Pardee Center Research Fellow Sujata Visaria will attend the conference.
Pardee Center Director, Prof. Adil Najam, spoke at a conference on “Muslim Giving in America: Tradition, Law and Politics.”
A Centripetal Theory of Democratic Governance by Pardee Center Fellows Strom Thacker and John Gerring will be published by Cambridge University Press at the end of June.
Prof. Henrik Selin, a Research Fellow at the Pardee Center, recently contributed an entry on “Global Warming and Public Policy” to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Boston University Pardee Center, spoke to a group of Ambassadors to the United Nations on “Climate Change, Development and Security” and then again at an event in the UN on “International Environmental Governance.”