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The Great Financial Crisis: Einaudi Center organizes Lund Critical Debate

Posted on: 8/21/2009   Archived on: 9/16/2009 On September 15, 2009, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies presents the second Lund Critical Debate, “The Great Financial Crisis: What Caused it? What is Next?” at 5:00 p.m. in Call Auditorium in Kennedy Hall.

FALL SEMINAR SERIES OPENS SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Posted on: 7/28/2009   Archived on: 9/16/2009 Financing African Development: Economic and Humanitarian Aid and Sustainable Development in Africa

The Food and Financial Crises and their Impacts on Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Africa, MAY 1-2, 2009

Posted on: 4/27/2009   Archived on: 5/10/2009 Cornell’s Institute for African Development is hosting a symposium on “The Food and Financial Crises and their Impacts on Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Africa” on May 1-2, 2009 at the ILR Conference Center on the Cornell Campus. The symposium brings together leading academic experts and practitioners from Africa and around the globe in areas including applied economics, international relations, agricultural economics, food policy, nutritional science, law, food economics, and international development, to examine key issues emerging from these crises, share analyses and examine possible responses.

Mo Ibrahim to deliver Bartels World Affairs Lecture on Africa

Posted on: 4/26/2009   Archived on: 4/28/2009 Founder and Chairman of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Dr. Mo Ibrahim, will deliver the Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellowship Lecture on April 27, 2009, at 4:30pm in Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, on the Cornell University Campus. Ibrahim’s talk, “Africa Works – With Good Governance, Investment, and a Little Help from Our Friends,” is free and open to the public.

Democratization in Africa: What Africans expect from the Obama Administration

Posted on: 3/30/2009   Archived on: 4/10/2009 IAD Special Speaker Lecture
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
6:00pm
G-10 Biotech Building

The IAD Special Speaker Series established in 2002 brings distinguished African leaders or eminient persons to Cornell to bring awareness to the wider community of the myriad issues related to African development. The Series seeks to shape debate, influence policy direction, and broaden the breadth of discussion on Africa.

SUMMIT on INTERNATIONAL WOMENS ISSUES

Posted on: 3/3/2009   Archived on: 3/10/2009

Thomas Carothers to address the future for U.S. Democracy promotion under President Obama

Posted on: 2/12/2009   Archived on: 3/6/2009 Thomas Carothers, Vice President for studies and director of the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will give a lecture entitled, “What future of U.S. democracy promotion under President Obama” on Thursday, March 5th at 4:30 pm in G10 Biotechnology. The talk is part of the Einaudi Center’s Foreign Policy Initiative.

IAD Launches New Publication on Remittances

Posted on: 2/4/2009   Archived on: 3/16/2009 Cornell Institute for African Development is pleased to announce the publication of Africa’s Finances: The Contribution of Remittances. The book is the culmination of a symposium organized by the Institute which brought together an interdisciplinary group of experts in economics, finance, development, migration, and poverty alleviation to articulate issues and policies to be considered in the examination of remittances and Africa’s development.

Spring Seminars Begin 1/29

Posted on: 1/22/2009   Archived on: 1/30/2009