Research on South Asia
Audio: “Indonesia, an Unlikely Democracy”
In this Brookings Cafeteria Podcast, Jonathan Stromseth of Brookings interviews Tom Pepinsky of Cornell about Indonesia and its political system.
Read MoreAudio: “Achieving Inclusive Growth in Asia”
VoxDev’s Tim Phillips talks with Yasuyuki Sawada, the Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), about how the objectives and challenges of the ADB have changed in the past half-century as Asian economies have developed and altered how they interact with the rest of the world.
Read MorePodcast: Peace, Security, and the United Nations General Assembly
In this podcast from Brookings Cafeteria, Fred Dews interviews Brookings Foreign Policy Director Bruce Jones regarding how the state of security has changed over the past years and what the United Nations (UN) should be doing about it.
Read MorePodcast: “Multinational Enforcement of Labor Laws”
In this VoxDev talks, Laura Boudreau from Columbia Business School talks about a recent experiment she ran in Bangladesh with multinational buyers in the garment sector and how their involvement changed compliance with safety regulations on the part of Bangladeshi suppliers.
Read MorePodcast: “A Global Response to the Climate Crisis”
This podcast from the Brookings Cafeteria focuses on the climate crisis and the burden left on the rest of the world after the US withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Accords.
Read MoreCourse Text: “Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia”
Excerpts from this article have been assigned as required reading for a core CDE course, “Public Economics.”
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