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Scholarly Publications
Do Migrants Improve Their Hometowns? Remittances and Access to Public Services in Mexico, 1995-2000
April 2009
How do citizens in developing countries access public services?
Perspective Paper on Financial Instability
December 2004
A unique publication exploring the opportunities for addressing ten of the most serious challenges facing the world today: Climate Change, Communicable Diseases, Conflicts, Education, Financial...
Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles For Water and Power
August 2004
Big dams built for irrigation, power, water supply, and other purposes were among the most potent symbols of economic development for much of the twentieth century.
Other Publications
Water, Water Everywhere? Devolution and the Water Sector in Kenya's Counties
October 2019
As of 2009, at the time of Kenya’s last census, roughly half the population lacked access to clean water.
Weighing the Environment: Ghana's Bui Dam
September 2018
This case examines the environmental permitting process leading up to the construction of the Bui Dam, the second largest hydropower facility in Ghana.
Funding Coca Codo Sinclair: Correa's Bet on Sustainable Power in Ecuador
September 2018
This case is about Ecuador's decision to finance the country's largest hydropower plant: Coca Codo Sinclair.
News
Tackling development challenges in Africa, three social entrepreneurs join Stanford community
March 2013
In April, three social entrepreneurs working to advance social, economic, and political change in Africa will spend the spring quarter in residency at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the...
Conference proposes meaningful ways to advance health rights
November 2012
On October 30, the Program on Human Rights (PHR) at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) held a day-long conference to examine health and human rights.
In Kenyan slum, mobile phones pinpoint better water
October 2012
An innovative course at Stanford is designing mobile phone platforms that help improve living conditions in Kenya's largest slums.
Events
Human Trafficking: How Technology Can Be Used to Fight Back
January 31, 2014
AbstractIncreasingly, technology is being used to facilitate trafficking and other forms of child sexual exploitation.
Are Crowdsourced Maps the Future of Community Self-Governance? Food, Land, and Water
January 10, 2014
AbstractEarlier generations of radicals understood themselves to be in an ongoing battle against the privatization of land and water. They instrumentalized maps in the court system as a tool for...
Albie Sachs Workshop
June 27, 2013
The event will be a dialogue with Justice Sachs about contemporary human rights challenges in South Sfrica and the role South Africa plays in the region.
Projects
Second and Third Generation Rights in Africa
Background In policy and legal circles, human rights and human well-being are often referred to as "universal" concepts. The human rights outlined in the 1946 Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
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People
Michael Bennon Research Scholar, CDDRL Program Manager, Global Infrastructure Policy Research Initiative 
