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Last month, he joined an all-star panel at the Asia Society to discuss the power of the arts to ignite change and create community in the Muslim world.
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Professor Douglas Almond’s research finds health insurance that allows longer hospital stays after childbirth does not lead to additional health benefits. His new paper was published in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
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From the Arab Spring to Kofi Annan to a record number of new endowed fellowships, SIPA's Annual Report shares highlights from the 2010 - 2011 academic year.
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Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, delivers SIPA’s Gabriel Silver Memorial Lecture in a joint presentation with the World Leaders Forum,
November 1, 6 p.m. Watch it live online
here.
Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship: City Strategies Summit with NYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg,
November 3, 8:30 a.m.
Political Stabilization: The Role of the U.S. Department of State, USAID, and the U.S. Military in Good Governance and Development,
November 3, 12:15 p.m.
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SIPA’s United Nations Studies Program celebrated UN Day with a discussion of “Every Woman Every Child,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's effort to improve the health of women and children around the globe.
Zara Rapoport (MIA ‘12) describes what makes the initiative so revolutionary.
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Kary Moss (MIA ’82), the first female executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, was inducted on October 27 into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame. On September 14, the State Bar of Michigan presented her with a 2011 Champion of Justice Award.
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Maria Victoria Murillo on the "cult of personality" surrounding late Argentine president Nestor Kirchner,
New York Times
José Antonio Ocampo: Capital controls should be standard tool, not last resort,
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Stuart Gottlieb writes “Risky Retreat from Iraq,”
NY Post
Joseph Stiglitz: European Union's framework is flawed,
Bloomberg
Jeffrey Sachs: World population: 7 billion,
CNN
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Lincoln Mitchell says “Occupy” looks forward, “Tea Party” backward,
U.S. News
Dorian Warren: What NBA stars and Occupy Wall Street protestors have in common,
Washington Post,
CNN
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Rodolfo de la Garza says immigrants “are a cultural threat but an economic gain, and Republicans are divided.”
The Hill
Michelle Chahine (MIA ’12) on the GOP primary debate: The Question Anderson Cooper Forgot to Ask,
The Huffington Post
Sylvia Hewlett: The Ticking Time Bomb of Eldercare,
Forbes
Michelle Moghtader (MIA ’12): 100 Million Fuel-Efficient Cookstoves by 2020, Is It Possible?
The Morningside Post, SIPA’s student-run blog
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Photo by Jonathan Roose (MIA '12) of the Tien Shan mountains near Almaty, Kazakhstan. Jonathan interned last summer for the Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia in Kazakhstan.
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