The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published the 27th paper in the Issues In Brief series. “Water Resources Development: Engineering the Future of Global Health” by Pardee 2012 Graduate Summer Fellow Diana R. Gergel presents the oft-neglected correlation between the development of dams and reservoirs, and the increased […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher and Prof. José Antonio Ocampo wrote an op-ed in Economic & Political Weekly titled, IMF’s New View On Capital Controls. The PDF of his op-ed is available here. More of Prof. Gallagher’s work on capital flows is available as part of the Global Economic Governance Initiative project titled, Financial Reform and Economic Governance. […]
Director ad interim James McCann led a four-person roundtable panel sponsored by the Pardee Center at the 18th International Conference on Ethiopian Studies in the city of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia on October 31-November 2nd. This short film Ethiopia in Movement, made by award-winning Ethiopian filmmaker Aida Ashenafi captures the panelists in the heart of the […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center is pleased to announce the March Pardee House Seminar, titled Ecosystems, Culture, and Governance: A Systems View of Development. The seminar will take place Tuesday, March 26, 2013, from noon to 1:30pm. Pardee Faculty Fellow Les Kaufman (Biology, BU) will moderate and Pardee Faculty Fellow Susan Foster (School of Public Health, […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times published on March 6th titled, “Don’t trade away financial stability in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.” Prof. Gallagher writes about upcoming negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and why talks are stalled due to disagreements over capital account regulations. Prof. Gallagher is the Principle Investigator in the […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new Task Force Report titled Capital Account Regulations and the Trading System: A Compatibility Review. The report is the second publication of the Pardee Center Task Force on Regulating Capital Flows for Long-Run Development, and builds on the Task Force´s […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce that theoretical physicist Geoffrey West, Distinguished Professor and former President of the Santa Fe Institute, will deliver the annual Frederick S. Pardee Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, April 4 at 5 p.m. in the Trustee Ballroom at One Silber Way. […]
The Pardee House Seminar on Feb. 25 titled The New Global Agreement on Mercury: Will It Make a Difference? featured three panelists who attended some of the international negotiation sessions leading up to announcement of the new agreement in January. The three offered their perspectives on how effective the new agreement will be. Pardee Faculty […]
Frederick S. Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher is quoted extensively and his work is cited in a recent Associates Press article about China’s loans to Latin America and the Caribbean. The article is available here. In addition, Margret Meyers, Director of China and Latin American program, Inter-American Dialogue, is also quoted. She spoke at the Pardee House Seminar, […]
Pardee Center Research Fellows Janot Mendler de Suarez and Pablo Suarez were among the presenters during a three-hour session called “Creative and Participatory Methods in Climate Communication” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston on Feb. 17. During their presentation, the pair discussed the participatory games […]