by Kiel Downey | Mar 24, 2017 | ROLC News
This week, ROLC Associate and Emeritus Faculty in the Department of History Dr. Ron Atkinson spoke at the World Bank’s Land and Poverty Conference 2017: Responsible Land Governance—Towards an Evidence-Based Approach. Dr. Atkinson, an African history expert whose...
by Kiel Downey | Mar 13, 2017 | Publication
We examine cross‐national variation in the global growth of commercial microfinance from 1998 to 2009 as a natural experiment to analyze the role of national institutions in shaping the ability of commercial enterprises to reach the global poor. Our results...
by Kiel Downey | Mar 13, 2017 | Publication
This article examines a national girls’ education program and its role in addressing gender inequality in the Indian state of Gujarat. In 2004, the Ministry of Education, Government of India, enacted the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyala (KGBV) program. As a...
by Kiel Downey | Mar 13, 2017 | Publication
Comparative findings from girls’ education projects in Gujarat, India, and Shaanxi, China, are used to explore two questions: How and under what conditions does schooling contribute to girls’ instrumental and intrinsic empowerment? What does it mean to become an...
by Kiel Downey | Mar 13, 2017 | Publication
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent responses by the U.S. federal government have raised fundamental questions about civil liberties in both domestic and international laws. As a result, the U.S. judiciary, out of its responsibility for...
