FSI researchers consider international development from a variety of angles. They analyze ideas such as how public action and good governance are cornerstones of economic prosperity in Mexico and how investments in high school education will improve China’s economy.
They are looking at novel technological interventions to improve rural livelihoods, like the development implications of solar power-generated crop growing in Northern Benin.
FSI academics also assess which political processes yield better access to public services, particularly in developing countries. With a focus on health care, researchers have studied the political incentives to embrace UNICEF’s child survival efforts and how a well-run anti-alcohol policy in Russia affected mortality rates.
FSI’s work on international development also includes training the next generation of leaders through pre- and post-doctoral fellowships as well as the Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program.
Does North Korea Have a National Security Strategy?
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Over the years, Kim Jong Il has pursued four inter-related goals that together might be considered as an implicit national security strategy:
- reviving the economy;
- buttressing domestic support at a time of leadership transition;
- widening North Korea's "diplomatic space" through 360-degree diplomacy; and
- shoring up the country´s aging military.
These goals are tightly linked but also involve significant trade-offs that may offer greater possibilities than ususally supposed for solving the issue of its nuclear weapons program.
Dr. John Merrill is the head of the Northeast Asia Division of U.S. State Department´s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and Adjunct Professor in the School of International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Korea: The Peninsular Origins of the War, 1945-50 and The Cheju-do Rebellion as well as numerous journal articles.
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John Merrill
Head of the Northeast Asia Division of U.S. State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Adjunct Professor in the School of International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
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The Cheapest Car in the World: Low-Cost Disruptive Innovation by Tata Motors
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About the event:
Last July, Tata Motors began selling the $2,500 Nano, the cheapest car in the world. Some argue that the impact of this automobile innovation may equal that of Ford's 1908 Model T in its creation of a new, low-income market.
However there remains a puzzle: Tata Motors has been producing imitative car models, lacking the technical prowess to develop new-to-the-world innovation. How has the company made innovative breakthroughs in spite of weak technological competence? Dr. Lim, as an expert on catching-up innovation, will explain the process and discuss the implications of the case for further understanding emerging innovation activities in developing countries.
About the speaker:
Chaisung Lim first developed his interest in technology issues as a management student, focusing on appropriate technology for developing countries. This led him to pursue issues on appropriate technology, firm level innovation and industrial competitiveness for his master and PhD theses and his career at the Korea Development Institute. His international research papers have concentrated on the management of technology for catching up at firm and national levels. He has participated in committees and project teams providing consultation on industrial and technology policies for the Korean and Turkish governments. He is currently a professor at the Miller School of MOT and Professor at the MOT/MBA program at Konkuk University, Seoul. He received the BA in Management at Sogang University, the Master's in Management at Seoul National University and the PhD in Technology Management at SPRU at the University of Sussex.
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Chaisung Lim
Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall, Room E-301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
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indlim77@stanford.edu
Visiting Scholar, 2009-2010
Chaisung Lim has focused his research on management of technology in catching up with advanced country firms in his capacity as leader of the Research Institute for Global Management of Technology for Catching Up (GMOT). He has participated in committees and project teams providing consultation on industrial and technology policies for the Korean and Turkish Governments. He is currently a Professor at the Miller School of MOT and the MOT/MBA program at Konkuk University, Seoul. He received the PhD in Technology Management at SPRU at the University of Sussex. He previously worked for the industrial analysis division of the Korea Development Institute, a leading think tank in Korea.
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Tong Ki Woo
Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall E301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
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tkwoo@stanford.edu
2009-10 visiting scholar
Dr. Woo, former president of Yeungnam University in Korea, is a 2009-2010 Fulbright Senior Research Schlar. He was a board member of Korean Council for University Education, and a member of Personnel and Policy Advisory Committee of the Civil Service Commisson of Korea.
He received a Ph.D. in Socio-Economic Planning from University of Tsukuba, Japan, an M.S. in Human Settlements Development from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, and a B.A. in Public Administration from Yeungnam University, Korea.
Globalization of Services Conference
Asia's generally dismal record up to 1990 as a provider of brand-name services, despite efforts by Japan and Korea in banking, retail and software, turned around in the 1990s with the rise of China and India. India, particularly, has made its name providing IT-enabled services. While the exports were initially confined to software programming and later call-centers, after 2000 the range and depth of work changed dramatically.
Fractured Militaries: Armed Forces and Transitions from Authoritarian Rule in Asia
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Under what conditions are autocratic regimes apt to break down when popular protests against them break out? Prof. Lee will showcase and explain the decisive role of armed forces in reinforcing or undermining the prolongation of authoritarian rule. He will offer a theoretical framework and illustrate it with two contrasting cases: the June 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, where the Chinese military suppressed protesters and safeguarded the regime; and the People Power revolt in Manila in February 1986, when the Philippine military swung its weight in favor of liberalization.
Terence Lee is associate editor of Armed Forces and Society. His writings have appeared in Asian Survey, Armed Forces and Society, Comparative Political Studies, and Foreign Policy. He studies civil-military relations, military organizations, and international security; other interests include Southeast Asian politics and political science theories. He was formerly an assistant professor in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and a postdoctoral fellow in the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard. His PhD and MA are in political science from the University of Washington, Seattle. Other degrees include a master’s in strategic studies from NTU and a University of Wisconsin-Madison BA (with Distinction) in political science and Southeast Asian Studies.
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Terence Lee
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
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National University of Singapore
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Inpatient treatment of diabetic patients in Asia: evidence from India, China, Thailand and Malaysia
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Aims The prevalence of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) has grown rapidly, but little is known about the drivers of inpatient spending in low- and middle-income countries. This study aims to compare the clinical presentation and expenditure on hospital admission for inpatients with a primary diagnosis of Type 2 DM in India, China, Thailand and Malaysia.
Methods We analysed data on adult, Type 2 DM patients admitted between 2005 and 2008 to five tertiary hospitals in the four countries, reporting expenditures relative to income per capita in 2007.
Results Hospital admission spending for diabetic inpatients with no complications ranged from 11 to 75% of per-capita income. Spending for patients with complications ranged from 6% to over 300% more than spending for patients without complications treated at the same hospital. Glycated haemoglobin was significantly higher for the uninsured patients, compared with insured patients, in India (8.6 vs. 8.1%), Hangzhou, China (9.0 vs. 8.1%), and Shandong, China (10.9 vs. 9.9%). When the hospital admission expenditures of the insured and uninsured patients were statistically different in India and China, the uninsured always spent less than the insured patients.
Conclusions With the rising prevalence of DM, households and health systems in these countries will face greater economic burdens. The returns to investment in preventing diabetic complications appear substantial. Countries with large out-of-pocket financing burdens such as India and China are associated with the widest gaps in resource use between insured and uninsured patients. This probably reflects both overuse by the insured and underuse by the uninsured.
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Japan's Quiet Revolution: Election 2009
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Japanese voters brought about a quiet revolution in the political life of the country in the August 30 election of the lower house of the parliament. In a historic election, Japanese voters brought to an end more than a half century of almost uninterrupted rule by the conservative Liberal Democratic Party. The opposition Democratic Party of Japan swept the election, gaining an overwhelming majority in the lower house to go with their coalition majority in the upper house. Three prominent scholars will analyze the election results, looking at how they fit into past developments, what it tells us about the evolution of Japan's political system and voter behavior, what this means for the emergence of competitive elections in Japan, and what the election may mean for the future of US-Japan relations.
Philippines Conference Room
Robert Weiner
Assistant Professor
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Naval Postgraduate School
Ethan Scheiner
Professor, Department of Political Science
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University of California, Davis
Kaoru (Kay) Shimizu
Assistant Professor
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Columbia University
Daniel C. Sneider
Associate Director for Research, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Reserach Center
Moderator
Stanford Unviersity
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