Op-Ed co-written by Dr Kate Grantham, Research Associate, Institute for the Study of International Development
鈥淐ollaborating with academics and other development professionals to publish and disseminate findings from such projects will also strengthen and validate NGO efforts. This article is one small contribution toward ensuring women鈥檚 NGOs get the credit and support they so richly deserve.鈥�
ISID releases a new policy brief by Professors Erik Kuhonta and Kazue Takamura, "Human Rights of Non-Status Migrants in Japan".聽 Read the full brief online.
The 黑料不打烊 Daily gave extensive coverage to the recent roundtable on ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.聽 .
To address security concerns, governments often implement trade
barriers and restrictions on the movement of goods and people. A new
study from the Occupied Palestinian Territories documents the negative
effects of these trade restrictions on the target economy, and their
implications for political violence. Amodio, Baccini and Di Maio (2017)
show that the import restrictions imposed by Israel on the West Bank
have a negative effect on industrial output and wages in those sectors
ISID is pleased to announce the release of a policy brief entitled "To eliminate deforestation in South America, reduce differences in regulations across regions and actors".聽 This brief was authored by R.D. Garrett, E.F. Lambin, and Y. le Polain de Waroux.
The Institute for the Study of International Development is pleased to announce the arrival on August 1st of Professor Yann le Polain de Waroux, jointly hired with the Department of Geography.聽 Professor le Polain de Waroux has a doctorate from the Universit茅 catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and most recently held a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University.聽 His research examines the role of people鈥檚 livelihood and land use choices as a nexus between social and environmental, and global and local dynamics in rural areas of the Global South.
