Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law is housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Disease
Scholarly Publications
Global Welfare Regimes: A Cluster Analysis
January 2009
This paper tests the claim that a small number of distinct „welfare regimes,combining institutional patterns and social welfare outcomes, can be identifiedacross the developing world.
Hard Choices: Security, Democracy, and Regionalism in Southeast Asia
November 2008
Hard Choices offers a most rewarding perspective on how Southeast Asian states straddle the ongoing tensions among three rarely compatible goals—security, democracy, and regionalism.
Diseases And Development
September 2005
This paper examines two related questions: what effects do infectious diseases exert on growth and development, and are they quantitatively important?
Other Publications
New Day New Way: U.S. Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century
June 2008
U.S. foreign assistance—the rationale behind it, the amount we give, its orientation and organization—has changed dramatically in the last decade.
News
World Bank chief presents plan to end extreme poverty, prevent pandemic
November 2015
Stanford students belong to the first generation that could witness the end of extreme global poverty – in what would be one of humankind's greatest achievements – the head of the World Bank said...
Five foreign policy questions for Obama and Romney
October 2012
With the third and final debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney set to focus on foreign policy, researchers from the Freeman Spogli Institute ask the questions they want answered and...
Google.org's Megan Smith: 'liberation through interconnection'
January 2010
Megan Smith,Vice President, New Business Development and General Manager, Google.org., argued that greater interconnectedness achieved by information technology is a major liberating force in the...
Events
Contemporary Challenges in Global Public Health: A Discussion on How Health is an Integral Aspect of the Overall Development and Sustainability Landscape
May 2, 2014
For nearly 70 years, CARE has been serving individuals and families in the world's poorest communities.
Governance of Public Health in Mexico
April 10, 2014
Abstract: Around the world, public health interventions have dramatically changed the life chances of millions.
The Contested Corners of Asia: Subnational Conflict and International Development Assistance: A Report of The Asia Foundation
February 27, 2014
Abstract: Subnational conflict is the most widespread, enduring, and deadly form of conflict in Asia.
Projects
Indigenous Peoples Rights
This project seeks to promote the collaboration between the Center for Latin American Studies and the Program on Human Rights in conducting an interdisciplinary faculty/graduate student research...
English
People
