By Sarah Logan and Talia Smith On Wednesday 24th April 2013, the Asia Society hosted a lunch and discussion entitled Myanmar’s Economic Outlook: Prospects and Challenges. CGSD kindly sponsored our tickets for the function, as we will be spending the summer working in Myanmar as part of our summer field placements for our MDP program, [...]
The Earth Institute’s Haiti Research and Policy Program at the Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development hosted to Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe on April 22, 2013. The event was part of the Spring 2013 Haiti Dialogue Series and focused on articulating strategies for data-driven policy support. Following the program and a Columbia University World Leaders Forum event with the [...]
The Haiti Research and Policy Program continued its Spring 2013 Dialogue Series with Kimberly Green, president of the Green Family Foundation. This discussion explored the role of small foundations in supporting Haiti’s cultural vibrancy. According to Ms. Green, in the post-earthquake period, many foundations frequently present bleak outlooks on the country’s development challenges, framing the dire narratives that describe [...]
Leslie Pean, Former World Bank economist and advisor to the former prime minister of Haiti, joined Tatiana Wah, Director of CGSD’s Haiti programs and a panel for a roundtable discussion in February. The discussion was on the challenges of decentralization and local development financing in Haiti. Mr. Pean discussed the history of centralized power in [...]
As part of the Haiti Research and Policy Program’s Dialogue Series, Program Director Dr. Tatiana Wah welcomed author and journalist Jonathan M. Katz to discuss his new book, The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came To Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster, and his observations from two years of reporting on the [...]
This week the Earth Institute announced that beginning Oct. 1, the Center for Global Health and Economic Development (CGHED) will migrate its staff and projects to CGSD. “The merger of CGHED’s health, education and other development professionals with CGSD’s economic development team will strengthen the Earth Institute’s ability to undertake cross-sector research, education and policy projects,” [...]
The Earth Institute houses development expertise that spans sectors, agro-ecological zones, and nearly every region of the world, and we have been able to draw on this global experience and the lessons learned to provide innovative approaches to some of the world’s most complex development challenges. The Millennium Villages (MV) Model is an example of [...]
In early June, the Honduras Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation hosted Dr. Glenn Denning, Dr. Gordon McCord, and me to explore a partnership for the design of an integrated rural development project in several regions of the country. Over the course of our visit, what started as a municipal-level, “Millennium Village” style development [...]
By Kathy Zhang Often times, money isn’t enough. Timor-Leste, a small island country in Southeast Asia, recently “struck oil,” putting it in a unique position to accelerate its development and address the country’s extraordinary reality of widespread malnutrition. However, development planning can be undermined by a series of challenges, many stemming from a history of [...]
At the end of May, I visited Haiti with a team from CGSD and CEISIN to explore some of the current constraints and opportunities in the agriculture sector. The problems faced by Haitian farmers have been well documented; small land plots, limited access to agricultural inputs and improved technologies, disputed land tenure rights, degraded watersheds [...]