What's New
May 15 2018 | Posted In: Announcements
The Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development is pleased to announce that three Stanford PhD students have been selected as Graduate Student Fellowship recipients for their work on global poverty and development.
May 7 2018 | Posted In: Student Profiles
Stanford students Jacqueline Wibowo and Sana Gujral talk about their recent whirlwind trip to India where they learned about the country's corporate governance.
Improving access to safe sanitation for the world’s urban poor, one container-based toilet at a time
May 1 2018 | Posted In: Impact Stories
A team led by Center faculty affiliate Jenna Davis created a container-based toilet that is being adopted in various countries where the urban poor lack access to safe sanitation.
May 1 2018 | Posted In: Announcements
The Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development is pleased to announce that six Stanford PhD students have been selected as Graduate Student Funding recipients for their work in international development.
Apr 23 2018 | Posted In: Impact Stories, Student Profiles
Stanford graduate student Sebastián Otero examines the effects of widespread privatization of higher education in Latin America.
Apr 13 2018 | Posted In: Announcements
You can now watch the full discussion between former U.S. ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual and former Mexican ambassador to the U.S. Arturo Sarukhan on April 9 at the Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development about the future of NAFTA and U.S.-Mexico relations.
Apr 11 2018 | Posted In: Impact Stories
The large-scale China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES) gathers high quality, in-depth data on firms and workers that has previously been lacking in the systematic study of issues impacting both employers and employees in China.
Apr 10 2018 | Posted In: In the News
Even with America’s threat to withdraw from NAFTA, changes to the trade pact are unlikely to come anytime soon, say two former diplomats with deep ties to Mexico.
Mar 29 2018 | Posted In: In the News
Economist Nicholas Bloom and his team revisit a management consulting intervention in India from nearly a decade ago to discover that it has had lasting effects. They discuss their findings on voxdev.org.
Mar 27 2018 | Posted In: In the News
A new study by Center affiliate and Graduate School of Business Associate Professor of Political Economy Saumitra Jha found that giving Israelis a short, though intensive, opportunity to trade stocks made them markedly more eager to negotiate a peace with Palestinians.
