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Network for Youth Agency: A Program Evaluation
BACKGROUNDCharacterized as a notorious case study of urban violence in Latin America, Rio de Janeiro slums (known as favelas) have long been home to dangerous drug factions.
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Youth with Hope Program
BACKGROUND Youth with Hope is the first large-scale vocational training program implemented in Mexico.
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Improving Teacher Quality in Mexico
Teaching is a core element of the educational process and a significant body of literature demonstrates that good teachers matter a lot for improving student academic achievement.
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The Incidence of Criminal Activity Near Schools in Mexico
The consequences of organized crime related violence for education are tragic.
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Traditional Governance, Citizen Engagement and Local Public Goods: Evidence from Mexico
In developing countries authority is often wielded unevenly. Tribes, clans, religious groups and other traditional leaders control zones of governance outside of the reach of the state.
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Human Rights Education
In partnership with the Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies (ICA) and the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), the Program on Human Rights ...
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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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Globalization and Human Rights
Since World War II, a major element of globalization has involved the expansion of human rights norms, rules, and institutions. This broad movement represents a dramatic shift from earlier...
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Program on Human Rights
Funded in 2009, the Program on Human Rights (PHR) is a unique intersection of the social sciences and public-policy formation and implementation.
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People
Pascaline Dupas Senior Fellow Professor, Economics, Senior Fellow, SIEPR, Director, Stanford King Center on Global Development 
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford Impact Labs (SIL), affiliated with PovGov at CDDRL 
