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There's an eerie silence in Adamstown. Between the rows of sleek apartment buildings in this new housing development in suburban Dublin, buses meander the empty streets, searching in vain for passengers to take into the capital. On street corners, pedestrian crossing lights shine brightly, ready to guide residents through...
Now the farm is back. Fears of food shortages, a rethinking of antipoverty priorities and the crushing recession are causing a dramatic shift in world economic policy in favor of greater support for agriculture. Farmers like Thakare are being showered with more aid and investment by governments and development agencies...
But the Green Revolution became a victim of its own success. Food prices plunged by some 60% (when adjusted for inflation) by the late 1980s from their peak in the mid-1970s. Policymakers and aid workers turned their attention to the poor's other pressing needs, such as health care...
Claudia Goldin, professor of economics and director of the National Bureau of Economics Research’s Development of the American Economy program, comes from “a family of people who are not risk takers,” she said.
As a part of the Silk Road Project’s residency, the Graduate School of Education also hosted several roundtable discussions with professors, GSE students, and members of Project Zero, a School of Education initiative devoted to the study of the development of learning.