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.
Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall, Third Floor, Central Wing
Vinod Aggarwal is professor in the Department of Political Science, affiliated professor of Business and Public Policy in the Haas School of Business, and director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been at Berkeley since 1980, and from 1991-1994 was chairman of the Political Economy of Industrial Societies Program.He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Business and Politics. Dr. Aggarwal consults regularly with multinational corporations on strategic planning, trade policy, and international negotiations. In the public sector, he has been a consultant to the Mexican Government, the U.S. Department of Commerce, OECD, the Group of Thirty, IFAD, and the World Bank. In 1990, he was special adviser on Trade Negotiations to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in connection with the GATT Uruguay Round negotiations and has also served as an adviser to Dr. Fred Bergsten, chairman of the APEC Eminent Persons Group. In 1997, he won the Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award at the Haas School of Business. Professor Aggarwal's authored books include Liberal Protectionism, International Debt Threat, and Debt Games, and his edited volumes include Asia-Pacific Crossroads. He is currently completing a volume on American corporate market and nonmarket strategies in Asia. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. This seminar is part of the Shorenstein Forum's ongoing series, "The California-Asia Connection." Lunch will be served to those who RSVP to Debbie Warren at dawarren@stanford.edu or 650-723-2408 by Friday, January 31, 2003.
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Dr. Jen-Chang Chou is the former director of the Science Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, in San Francisco, as well as a distinguished nuclear physicist and government leader. Chou served from 1987 to 1992 as director of Taiwan's Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, and for more than nine years as the secretary general of Silicon Valley's Monte Jade Science and Technology Association. He is the author of 25 journal articles on nuclear science, accelerator applications, and nuclear applications, and he is a frequent contributor to Sino-Canadian American Science News Brief.
This lecture is part of a special series on Contemporary China hosted by Shorenstein APARC's Walter H. Shorenstein Forum.
Philippines Conference Room
This lecture is part of a special series on Contemporary China hosted by Shorenstein APARC's Walter H. Shorenstein Forum.
Philippines Conference Room, Third Floor, Encina Hall, Central Wing
This lecture is part of a special series on Contemporary China hosted by Shorenstein APARC's Walter H. Shorenstein Forum.
Philippines Conference Room
This lecture is part of a special series on Contemporary China hosted by Shorenstein APARC's Walter H. Shorenstein Forum.
Philippines Conference Room, Third Floor, Encina Hall, Central Wing
The recent growth in offshoring business processes is driven by the need for cost savings, but, because of the potential for both the quantity and quality of work that may be done overseas, has larger implications for the service economy in developed countries. This paper uses India as a case study to examine the business, knowledge-related, and technological considerations that drive the globalization of business process fulfillment. It also examines the industrial structure that is emerging in India for the work and draws conclusions about its future and its implications for service workers in developed countries.
This chapter first offers a theoretical framework to explain coexistence of nationalism and globalization by considering two interrelated processes: 1) nationalist appropriation of globalization and 2) intensification of ethnic identity in reaction to globalization process. It then presents empirical evidence to demonstrate how these processes have worked in Korean globalization at both official and popular levels.
Okimoto Conference Room, Encina Hall, Third Floor, East Wing
