Speaker: Laura Jaitman, Research Economist, Inter-American Development Bank About the talk: Latin America and the Caribbean is the most violent region on earth, with a homicide rate that is 4 times the global average. In this talk, first recent estimates of the economic cost of crime will be presented, and LAC high crime rates will […]

Speakers: Niharika Singh, Ph.D. Student Affiiate, & Zainab Qureshi, Senior Program Manager, Evidence for Policy Design Program About the Talk: Despite significant progress in enrollment and educational access, learning outcomes in Pakistan remain vastly substandard. At the same time, the country’s education landscape has changed dramatically with the mushrooming growth of low cost private schools, […]

Join us for a conversation with Francisco Lara Marquez MPP 2012, a Venezuelan lawyer and political activist. Marquez was a political prisoner in Venezuela and later forced into exile in the United States. Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations will moderate. This discussion is part of the Ash Center's Democracy in Hard Places Initiative.  Event organized […]

Speaker: Todd Moss, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. About the talk: Development policy has become increasingly intertwined with US national security, diplomacy, and economic policy. Yet the new administration has proposed severe budget cuts to USAID, State, and other relevant accounts. Where does development policy […]