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May 2008
May 1	CID Special Event "The Role of the Private Sector in Economic Development; The Case Study of Rwanda" Speaker: Michael Fairbanks, Co- Founder, The SEVEN Fund, and former Chairman of OTF Group 6:30 - 8:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
May 5	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) "Self-selection Patterns in Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Role of Migration Networks" Speaker: Hillel Rapoport, Lecturer, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
May 6	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Evolving Norms on R&D for New Medicines: Evidence and Hypotheses: A Research Design" Suerie Moon, pre-doctoral fellow, Sustainability Science Program and doctoral candidate, Public Policy Program, HKS - and - "The Natural Face of Conflict: Resources and the Politics of Identity in Africa's New Wars" Ann Laudati, Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science in the Sustainability Science Program 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
May 6	Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series "Incentives for Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Multi-functional Landscapes: A Pentagon of Research Questions for the World Agroforestry Centre" Brent Swallow, Principal Economist at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Nairobi and Global Coordinator of the ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Lunch provided Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS RSVP Requested by May 2: maryanne_baumgartner@harvard.edu Contact: CID Events
May 7	Economic Development Lunch Series Speakers: Jean Lee, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University and Sandra Sequeira, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: Dina Pomeranz
May 13	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Think Locally, Act Globally: New Challenges to Environmental Governance" Marcel Bursztyn, Giorgio Ruffolo Research Fellow in Sustainability Science, Fulbright Visiting Senior Scholar, and Director, Center for Sustainable Development, University of Brasilia - and - "What Next After Privatization of Maasai Group Ranches? Early Results of Focus Group Discussions" Esther Mwangi, Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science and Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
May 14	CID Special Event Speaker: Princess Zahra Aga Khan, Agha Khan Development Network 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS RSVP Required: CID Events
May 14	Economic Development Lunch Series Speaker: Dina Pomeranz, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM note location change RG20, Ground Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: Dina Pomeranz
May 21	Economic Development Lunch Series Speaker: Winnie Fung, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: Dina Pomeranz
May 27	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar Year in Review Speakers: William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, Co-director, Sustainability Science Program and Nancy Dickson, Senior Researcher and Co-director, Sustainability Science Program 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
May 28	Economic Development Lunch Series Speakers: Eliana Carranza, Doctoral Candidate, Political Economy & Government, Harvard University and Martin Kanz, Doctoral Candidate, Political Economy & Government, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: Dina Pomeranz
April 2008
Apr 1	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Do Protected Areas Encourage Forest Fragmentation?" Kate Emans Sims, doctoral fellow, Sustainability Science Program and Environmental Economics Program and doctoral candidate, Program in Political Economy and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Economics Department, and Government Department, Harvard University - and - "The Social Dimensions of Productivity in Teams: Evidence from Kenya's Commercial Agriculture Sector" Jessica Leino, Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science and doctoral candidate, Economics Department, University of California at Berkeley 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Apr 2	Economic Development Lunch Series Speakers: Ngoc Anh Tran, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Apr 3-6	14th Annual International Development Conference (IDC 2008) Generating Ideas for a Better World
Apr 4	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Sovereign Debt Crises in the Developing World" Speaker: Alexandre Jeanneret, CID Fellow; Ph.D. Candidate in Finance, Swiss Finance Institute 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Apr 7	CID Special Event Empowerment Lab Meeting 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Invitation Only Contact: CID Events
Apr 8	Application Deadline for Sustainability Science Water and Development Student Research Fellowship (for Harvard PhD Candidates) To support Harvard PhD candidates from any discipline conducting research on issues at the intersection of water and development.
Apr 8	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Biofuel Production, Community Development and Private Sector Engagement: What could other Countries Learn from Brazil?" Daniele Cesano, Giorgio Ruffolo Research Fellow in Sustainability, Founder, CO2nnect, and capacity building coordinator, SouthSouthNorth - and - "Institutional Innovations in Global Health" Nicole Szlez�k, doctoral fellow, Sustainability Science Program and doctoral candidate, Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Apr 9	Economic Development Lunch Series Speakers: Deepa Dhume, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University and Sharon Barnhardt, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Apr 11	Second Round Application Deadline for Harvard International Development Internship Fund (HIDIF) Funds summer internships for first-year HKS students.
Apr 11	Application Deadline for HKS-EGAP Mexico Program Student Research Grants For field research in Mexico on issues relevant to public policy and international development
Apr 11	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar CID Sponsored PAE/SYPA Presentations (click for full titles) Speakers from the 2008 class: Mawadda Damon and Laura Rudert Andres Echeverry Kassahun Melesse Veronica Minaya Adrian Mucalov Semil Shah Rupert Simons Yuko Watanabe 11:45 AM - 2:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Apr 14	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) Speaker TBA 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Apr 14	CID Special Event Panel on Transnational Philanthropy and Poverty Reduction Panelists: Steven Lawry (Moderator) - Senior Research Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations Barry Gaberman - Chairman, BoardSource Sheela Patel - Founder and Director, Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC) Lant Pritchett - Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, HKS 4:00 - 6:00 PM Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor, Littauer Building, HKS Sponsored with the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations Contact: CID Events
Apr 15	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Impact of the Petroleum Sector on the Resilience of the Niger Delta Social-Ecological System" Michael Burns, Giorgio Ruffolo Research Fellow and project manager, Sustainability Science Programme, South Africa�s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - and - "Social Networks and the Challenge of Learning for Sustainability" Adam Henry, Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science and doctoral candidate, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Davis 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Apr 16	Economic Development Lunch Series Speakers: Oeindrila Dube, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Apr 18	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Voices of Moderate Palestinian Youth Leaders" Speakers: Ahmad Omeir Linda Abu Elhalaweh Amani Samara Mohammed Zaid Al-Kilany Yazan Alnabulsi Su�ad Soboh 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Apr 21	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) Speaker: Eric Verhoogen, Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Apr 21-26	Executive Education Program "New Thinking on Growth and Development Policy" Taught by: Ricardo Hausmann, Director, CID and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, HKS; Rohini Pande, Mohamed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, HKS; Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, HKS; Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation Professor of Economics, MIT; Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, HKS; Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT; and Charles Sabel, Professor of Law and Social Science, Columbia Law School Contact: Rebecca Coyne for more information about this program Contact: Marcela Escobari for inquiries about future programs
Apr 22	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Learning in Networks and Technology Diffusion: Preliminary Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya" Lorenzo Casaburi, Giorgio Ruffolo Pre-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science and doctoral candidate, Economics Department, Harvard University - and - "Allocation of Incentives for the Private Provision of Public Goods: Woodlot Promotion in Malawi" Kelsey Jack, Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science and doctoral candidate, Public Policy Program, HKS 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Apr 23	Economic Development Lunch Series Speakers: Daniel Carvalho, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University and Philipp Schnabl, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Apr 24	CID Special Event: Belfer Center & Center for International Development Directors' Lunch Speaker: Robert Orr, Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Planning and Policy Coordination, United Nations 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM, Lunch served Belfer Center Library, 3rd Floor, Belfer Building, HKS Sponsored with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs RSVP: Belfer Center
Apr 25	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Yaks for Development: Social Entrepreneurship in China on the Rise" Speakers: Marie So and Carol Chyau, Ventures for Development 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Apr 28	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) Speaker: Asim Khwaja, Associate Professor of Public Policy, HKS 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Apr 28	CID Special Event "Liberty at a Juncture: Student Organizing and Political Change" Speakers: Yon Goicoechea and Geraldine Alvarez, Venezuelan Student Movement 7:00 - 9:00 PM Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor, Littauer Building, HKS RSVP required: http://studentsinmovement.eventbrite.com/ Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Contact: CID Events
Apr 29	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Why? Because...Reflections on Causality in Development Programs" Fred Carden, Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program and Director, Evaluation Unit, International Development Research Centre - and - "What is the Worth of Mangroves in the Niger Delta?" Godstime James, Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science and doctoral candidate, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program, University of Missouri at Kansas City 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Apr 30	Economic Development Lunch Series Speaker: Michael Faye, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: Dina Pomeranz

March 2008
Mar 1	Application Deadline for Faculty Grants in Sustainability Science Contact: sustsci_grants@ksg.harvard.edu
Mar 1	Application Deadline for Vicki Norberg-Bohm Fellowship (For HKS Doctoral Candidates) To support Kennedy School of Government PhD candidates conducting early exploratory research on energy or environmental issues
Mar 3	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) Speaker: Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
March 4	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Legitimizing and Strengthening Deliberation to Address Environmental Conflicts: The Case of Community Protests at the Tintaya Copper Mine in Peru" Isabelle Anguelovski, doctoral candidate, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Mar 5	Economic Development Lunch Series "On the Determinants of School Choice: Structural Estimates and Simulations for Chile" Speaker: Andres Hernando, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Mar 7	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Expanding the Vision of Microfinance: A Replicable Model of a Way Forward in Africa" Speaker: Dana Dakin, Founder and President, WomensTrust Inc. 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Mar 10	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) Speaker: Matt Andrews, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
March 11	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Who Purchases Flood Insurance?" Carolyn Kousky, doctoral fellow, Sustainability Science Program and doctoral candidate, Public Policy Program, HKS 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Mar 12	Economic Development Lunch Series Speaker: Stefan Hunt, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Mar 14	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Productivity Effects on Mexican Manufacturing Employment Before and After NAFTA" Speaker: Rene Cabral Torres, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Monterrey Institute of Technology 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Mar 14	CID Special Event "World Economic Challenges in the Era of Globalization" Co-sponsored by the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East Central Europe Speaker: H.E. Christopher F. Egan, U.S. Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (HKS MPA '05) 3:00 - 4:30 PM Neustadt Classroom, Ground Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Reception to follow in the Collins Family Rotunda, Taubman Building Contact: CID Events
Mar 17	First Round Application Deadline for Harvard International Development Internship Fund (HIDIF) Funds summer internships for first-year HKS students.
Mar 17	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) Speaker: Filipe Campante, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
March 18	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Motivation to Engage in Social Learning about Sustainability" Krister Andersson, Giorgio Ruffolo Research Fellow in Sustainability Science and assistant professor in environmental policy, University of Colorado at Boulder - and - "Green Chemistry - An International Perspective" Kira Matus, Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science and doctoral candidate, Public Policy Program, HKS 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Mar 19	Economic Development Lunch Series Speakers: Dan Fetter, Doctoral Candidate, Political Economy & Government, Harvard University and Anjali Adukia, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Mar 24-Mar 30	SPRING BREAK
Mar 31	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) "International Policy Cooperation and the IMF" Speaker: Manmohan S. Kumar, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University and Visiting Fellow, HKS 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Mar 31	Goodbye Party for Liz Nuñez Please join us as we wish Liz well on her way to GSAS! 4:00 - 5:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS

February 2008
Feb 1	Application Deadline for Fellowships in Sustainability Science Contact: sustsci_grants@ksg.harvard.edu
Feb 4	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) Speaker: Pol Antras, Professor of Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 5	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Overview of Spring Plans for the Sustainability Science Program and Discussion of Critical Readings in Sustainability Science Seminar" William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, Co-director, Sustainability Science Program and Nancy Dickson, Senior Researcher and Co-director, Sustainability Science Program 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Feb 6	Economic Development Lunch Series Speaker: Ryan Bubb, PhD Candidate, Political Economy and Government, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Feb 8	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society" Speaker: Alnoor Ebrahim, Visiting Associate Professor of Public Policy, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, KSG 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 8	Application Deadline for WorldTeach Summer Internships Applications for undergraduates due no later than 5:00 PM Contact: info@worldteach.org
Feb 11	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) World Economic Forum Mexico Brainstorm 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 12	CID Special Event sponsored by CID and the MPA/ID Program �Perceptions or Fundamentals: Which Counts More in Financial Markets?� Speaker: Nehad Chowdhury, Portfolio Manager, Emerging Markets Team, BlueBay Asset Management 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 12	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Adaptive Management of Human-Environment Systems" Jan Sendzimir, Research Fellow, Sustainability Science in the Sustainability Science Program 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Feb 13	Economic Development Lunch Series Speakers: Amrita Ahuja, Doctoral Candidate, Business Economics, Harvard Business School and Tom Vogl, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Feb 14	The International Development Film Series "This is Nollywood" This Is Nollywood" tells the story of the Nigerian film industry, a revolution enabling Africans with few resources to tell their own stories to their own audience. Can a successful cluster in the "culture industry" serve as the engine of economic development? Followed by Q&A with Director Franco Sacchi, Associate Producer Aimee Corrigan, and Cinematographer Robert Caputo 6:30 PM Land Lecture Hall, 4th floor Belfer Building, HKS Contact: meriem_ait_ali_slimane@ksg08.harvard.edu
Feb 15	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Competitiveness Policy for the Wounded Celtic Tiger" Speaker: Michael King, Senior Research Officer, IIIS, Trinity College Dublin; Former Economist, Ireland�s National Competitiveness Council; and Founder and former Chief Executive, Suas Educational Development 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Feb 19	Application Deadline for 2008 Spring Break Opportunity in Oaxaca Sponsored by the CID Mexico Program Two students will have the opportunity to participate in a project in Oaxaca, Mexico, chronicling developmental challenges that two communities in Southern rural Mexico face.
Feb 19	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Assessing the Resilience of River Basin Management Regimes: Non-Linear Change on the Road to Sustainability" Jan Sendzimir, Research Fellow, Sustainability Science in the Sustainability Science Program 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Feb 20	Economic Development Lunch Series Speaker: Sandip Sukhtankar, Doctoral Candidate, Political Economy & Government, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Feb 22	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Capabilities Measurement in Survey Design" Speaker: Paul Anand, Department of Economics, Open University (UK) 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Feb 25	Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series "Blending Reductionist and Holistic Perspectives for Sustainability Science" Speaker: Anil Gupta, Kasturbhai Lalbhai Chair in Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Management; Coordinator, Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions; Coordinator, Honey Bee Network; and Executive Vice Chair, National Innovation Foundation 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Feb 25	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) Speaker: Maurice Kugler, Department of Economics, University of Southampton (UK); Growth Lab Fellow, CID, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
Feb 26	Application Deadline for CID Undergraduate Summer Travel Grants Research grants for summer travel in developing countries
Feb 27	Economic Development Lunch Series Speaker: Tristan Zajonc, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Feb 29	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar with the 2008 Bridge Builders Conference "Innovations in Post-Conflict Reconstruction" Speakers: Evariste Habiyambere, Rwanda; and Rahmatullah Oryakhel, Afghanistan Moderator: Claude Bruderlein, Harvard School of Public Health 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served (note early start time) Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, HKS Contact: CID Events
January 2008
Jan 28	CID Special Event "Bad Samaritans � The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism" Speaker: Ha-Joon Chang, Reader in the Political Economy of Development, University of Cambridge 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events

December 2007
Dec 3	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) "The Long and Short (of) Quality Ladders" Speaker: Amit Khandelwal, Columbia Business School 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Dec 4	CID Special Event "Social Capitalism and Alternative Financial Services: How empowerment will lead to long-term economic development" Speaker: Roy Sosa, co-founder NetSpend Corporation and MPower Ventures 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Dec 5	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Conscripting Nature: The Political Ecology of Violent Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Southern Sudan, and Northern Uganda" Speaker: *Ann Laudati, Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science in the Sustainability Science Program "Protected Forest Areas, Land Use, and Local Development in Northern Thailand"* *Kate Emans Sims*, doctoral fellow, Sustainability Science Program and Environmental Economics Program and doctoral candidate, Program in Political Economy and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Economics Department, and Government Department, Harvard University 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Dec 6	The International Development Film Series "A Place Called Chiapas" "A Place Called Chiapas" is a documentary that provides a firsthand account of the lives of the Zapatistas and their 1994 revolution. Directed by Nettie Wild, the film takes viewers into rebel territory in the Mexican state of Chiapas, where the Zapatista military lives in hiding from the Mexican Army. 6:30 PM Land Lecture Hall, 4th floor Belfer Building, KSG Contact: meriem_ait_ali_slimane@ksg08.harvard.edu
Dec 7	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "The Political Ecology of Natural Resources and Violent Conflicts" Speaker: Ann Laudati, Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science, Sustainability Science Program, Center for International Development, Harvard University 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Dec 10	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) Speaker: Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, KSG and Faculty Associate, CID, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Dec 12	CID Holiday Party By invitation only Contact: CID Events
Dec 13	The International Development Film Series "White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" On August 6th and 9th, 1945, two atomic bombs vaporized 210,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those who survived are called "hibakusha"--people exposed to the bomb--and there are an estimated 200,000 living today. Today, with the threat of nuclear weapons of mass destruction frighteningly real- the world's arsenal capable of repeating the destruction at Hiroshima 400,000 times over, Oscar� award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki revisits the bombings and shares the stories of the only people to have survived a nuclear attack. 6:30 PM Land Lecture Hall, 4th floor Belfer Building, KSG Contact: meriem_ait_ali_slimane@ksg08.harvard.edu
November 2007
Nov 1	The International Development Film Series "Jung: In the Land of the Mujaheddin" Jung means war in Farsi language. The documentary details the humanitarian adventure of the building of the Emergency hospital in northern Afghanistan in 1999. The film's directors, who made three trips in the space of 18 months, spent seven months in a country brought to its knees by twenty years of war, a country where mere survival seemed impossible. Jung won first prize at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam in 2000. In 2001 it won the Human Rights Watch Film Festival as Best Film and the Vancouver International Film Festival prize as Best Documentary. 6:30 PM Land Lecture Hall, 4th floor Belfer Building, KSG Contact: meriem_ait_ali_slimane@ksg08.harvard.edu
Nov 2	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Decomposing World Export Growth and the Relevance of New Destinations" Speaker: Andres Zahler, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy, KSG and Doctoral Fellow, CID 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 5	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) Speaker: Federico Sturzenegger, Visiting Professor of Public Policy, KSG & Faculty Associate, CID, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 7	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Allocation Mechanisms for Conservation Contracts in Developing Countries" Speaker: Kelsey Jack, Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science and doctoral candidate, Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University "The Commons in Transition: Looking Back, Thinking Ahead for Livelihoods and Environmental Sustainability" Speaker: *Esther Mwangi, Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science and Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment* 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Nov 8	The International Development Film Series "The Circle" "The Circle" (Persian: Dayereh) is the 2000 fiction-film by Iranian independent filmmaker Jafar Panahi that criticizes the treatment of women in Iran. The film does not have a central protagonist: instead, it is constructed around a sequence of short interconnecting stories that illustrate the everyday challenges that women face in Iran. Each story intersects, but none is complete, leaving the viewer to imagine both the background and the ending. The film won several awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2000, but it is banned in Iran. 6:30 PM Land Lecture Hall, 4th floor Belfer Building, KSG Contact: meriem_ait_ali_slimane@ksg08.harvard.edu
Nov 9	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Fostering Competitiveness and Catalyzing Private Sector Growth in Lower Income Countries: Lessons from Pakistan, Rwanda, Kazakhstan and Jordan" Speaker: Justin Stokes, Senior Consultant, J.E. Austin Associates 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 9	Application Deadline for Student Research Grants offered by the KSG-EGAP Mexico Program Funding for KSG students for field research in Mexico on issues relevant to public policy and international development. Due no later than 5:00 PM Contact: Beth Ela
Nov 14	Farewell Party for Aimee Pease Fox Please join us as we wish Aimee well on her departure from the Kennedy School. 3:00 - 5:00 PM Brief remarks at 4:00 PM Fainsod Room, 3rd floor Littauer Building
Nov 15	The International Development Film Series "The Flute Player" "The Flute Player" is a one-hour documentary film about the life and work of Cambodian genocide survivor Arn Chorn-Pond. Arn was just a boy when Cambodia's Khmer Rouge military regime took power in 1975. For four long years, Arn followed the strict orders of the Khmer Rouge - doing whatever it took to save his own life amidst torture, murder, starvation and brainwashing. The film is the winner of the Audience Award for Documentary Feature 1st Film at the South by Southwest Film Festival 2003. 6:30 PM Land Lecture Hall, 4th floor Belfer Building, KSG Contact: meriem_ait_ali_slimane@ksg08.harvard.edu
Nov 16	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Sustainability - African Alternatives" Speaker: Carol Thompson, Ph.D., Professor of Political Economy, Northern Arizona University 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 19	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) "Zambia's Growth and Development Challenges" Special meeting with the World Bank invitation only 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 26	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) Speaker: Roberto Rigobon, Associate Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 26	2008 Application Deadline for CID January Term Travel Grants Funding for travel to developing countries as part of PAE/SYPA. Due no later than 5:00 PM Contact: Melissa Wojciechowski
Nov 28	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "The Origins and Dissemination of Technologies for the Diagnosis, Treatment and Control of Malaria: What Role for Institutions?" *Speaker: Suerie Moon*, pre-doctoral fellow, Sustainability Science Program and doctoral candidate, Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University "Environmental Governance and Traditional Politics at the Local Level" *Speaker: Marcel Bursztyn*, Giorgio Ruffolo Research Fellow in Sustainability Science, Fulbright Visiting Senior Scholar, and Director, Center for Sustainable Development, University of Brasilia 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Nov 29	The International Development Film Series "The Trials of Henry Kissinger" Featuring previously unseen footage, newly declassified US government documents, and revealing interviews with key insiders to the events in question, the documentary film examines the charges facing Henry Kissinger, shedding light on a career long shrouded in secrecy. In part, it explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful men in US history and now, in the autumn of his life, one of its most disputed figures. 6:30 PM Land Lecture Hall, 4th floor Belfer Building, KSG Contact: meriem_ait_ali_slimane@ksg08.harvard.edu
Nov 30	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Perspectives on Endogenous Growth Theory" Speaker: David Warsh, Editor, Economic Principals 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events

October 2007
Oct 1	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) Speaker: Kristin Forbes, Associate Professor Sloan School of Management, MIT 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 2	Critical Readings in Sustainability Science Research 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Oct 3	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Green Chemistry: Barriers, Actions and Policy Frameworks" Speaker: Kira Matus, Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science and doctoral candidate, Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University "Human-Environment Interaction in the Mangrove Ecosystem of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria" Speaker: Godstime James, Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science and doctoral candidate, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program, University of Missouri at Kansas City 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Oct 3	Economic Development Lunch Series "The Lasting Effects of Clean Water: Evidence from American Cities" Speaker: Tom Vogl, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University and Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy "Theft from Multiple Pots: Corruption in India's Workfare System" Speaker: Sandip Sukhtankar, Doctoral Candidate, Political Economy and Government, Harvard University and Paul Niehaus, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Oct 4	The International Development Film Series "Paradise Now" Paradise Now is a 2005 film directed by Hany Abu-Assad about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel. It delves into the minds of the potential suicide bombers, their feelings, their thoughts. "The film is an artistic point of view of the political issue." Abu-Assad said. "The politicians want to see it as black and white, good and evil, and art wants to see it as a human thing." The film won a Golden Globe for best foreign language film and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category. 6:30 PM Land Lecture Hall, 4th floor Belfer Building, KSG
Oct 9	Critical Readings in Sustainability Science Research 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Oct 10	Economic Development Lunch Series "The Effects of Protected Forest Areas on Land Use and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Northern Thailand" Speaker: Kate Emans Sims, Doctoral Candidate, Political Economy & Government, Harvard University, and Doctoral Research Fellow, CID 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Oct 10	Mexico Program Occasional Seminar Series "Mexico from the Inside: A Review of Economic and Social Capacity based on the States' Assets" Speaker: Dr. Vidal Garza Cant�, Director, FEMSA Foundation; founding Associate Dean and former Director of the MPA Program, EGAP, Tecnol�gico de Monterrey-Monterrey Campus 4:00 - 5:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Refreshments will be served Contact: Sandra Oliveira
Oct 12	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Fiscal Pro-cyclicality and Growth: What Are the Channels?" Speaker: Alfie Ulloa, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, KSG, Harvard University 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 15	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) Speaker: David Dollar, Country Director for China and Mongolia, World Bank 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 15	Announcement of Winner of the Quadir Prize - Annual Global Contest to Strengthen Bangladesh Essay contest for proposals to improve the lives of low- and middle-income people in Bangladesh. View press release announcing winners
Oct 16	Critical Readings in Sustainability Science Research 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Oct 17	Economic Development Lunch Series "Blame It On the Rain: Economic Shocks and Voting in India" Speaker: Ryan Bubb, Doctoral Candidate, Political Economy & Government, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Oct 17	CID Special Event: Wireless Clouds in the Foothills of the Himalayas: Internet Access and Rural Development Michael Ginguld, CEO and Co-Founder, AirJaldi, India; Mid-career MPA student, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 6:00 PM L332, Littauer Building, KSG Contact: Beth Ela
Oct 18	The International Development Film Series "The War Room" The film shows the behind-the-scenes activity in Bill Clinton�s campaign for President of the United States in 1992. The film is named after the campaign�s �war room� command center from which the effort was directed. The film crew, led by husband and wife directors D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, was given unprecedented access behind the scenes starting with the 1992 Democratic National Convention, with the story of the primaries constructed from news footage. The film was nominated for the Academy Award as best documentary. 6:30 PM Land Lecture Hall, 4th floor Belfer Building, KSG Contact: meriem_ait_ali_slimane@ksg08.harvard.edu
Oct 19	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "An Urgent Call to Professionalize Leadership and Management in Health Care Worldwide" Speaker: Joseph Dwyer, Director, Management and Leadership Program, Management Sciences for Health 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 22	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) Speaker: Maurice Kugler, Department of Economics, University of Southampton (UK); Growth Lab Fellow, CID, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 23	Critical Readings in Sustainability Science Research 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Oct 24	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Global Health in the Making: Science, Politics in the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria" Speaker: Nicole Szlez�k, doctoral fellow, Sustainability Science Program and doctoral candidate, Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University "Allocation Mechanisms for Conservation Contracts in Developing Countries" Speaker: Kelsey Jack, Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science and doctoral candidate, Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Oct 24	Economic Development Lunch Series "Firms, Elections and Public Credit: Estimating the Economic Effects of Political Capture in Brazil" Speaker: Daniel Carvalho, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Oct 25	The International Development Film Series "The Fog of War" "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert McNamara" is a compelling portrait of the former US Secretary of Defense and World Bank Director. It won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The movie consists of interviews detailing McNamara's life and the difficult decisions that he made during his career, in particular during the Vietnam war and the 'covert' bombing of Cambodia. 6:30 PM Land Lecture Hall, 4th floor Belfer Building, KSG Contact: meriem_ait_ali_slimane@ksg08.harvard.edu
Oct 26-27	NEUDC 2007 - Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference Hosted by the Center for International Development KSG, Harvard University Contact: CID Events
Oct 29	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) "The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela�s Maisanta" Speaker: Francisco Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Economics and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 30	Critical Readings in Sustainability Science Research 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Oct 31	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Boundary Work and Negotiation Support to Link Knowledge with Action in Indonesian Agroforestry" Speaker: Elizabeth McNie, doctoral fellow, Sustainability Science Program and doctoral candidate, Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado at Boulder 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Oct 31	Economic Development Lunch Series "The Impact of Futures on Agricultural Commodity Markets: Investigating the Price Stabilizing Effects of Storage" Speaker: Stefan Hunt, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz

September 2007
Sept 4	CID Fellows Orientation 9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Sept 5	Economic Development Lunch Series "Daughters as Wealth? The Effect of Cash Incentives on Sex Ratios" Speaker: Alaka Holla, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Brown University and Innovations for Poverty Action 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Sept 10	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) "Forward Linkages and Structural Transformation" Bailey Klinger, Doctoral Candidate in Public policy at KSG and CID Fellow 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 10	CID Open House Meet CID faculty and staff, hear about our programs, and enjoy light refreshments 4:00 - 5:00 PM Bell Hall, 4th Floor, Belfer Building, KSG Open to the Harvard community Contact: CID Events
Sept 11	Critical Readings in Sustainability Science Research 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Sept 12	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Decentralization and Deforestation in Latin America" Speaker: Krister Andersson, Giorgio Ruffolo Research Fellow in Sustainability Science and assistant professor in environmental policy, University of Colorado at Boulder "Policy-Oriented Learning, Social Networks and Sustainability: The Case of Regional Planning" Speaker: Adam Henry, Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science and doctoral candidate, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Davis 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Sept 12	Economic Development Lunch Series Speaker: Quoc-Anh Do, Doctoral Candidate, Economics; Institute of Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Sept 14	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "From Powerpoint to Practice: The Realities of On-the-Ground AID Implementation" Beth Collins, Former Country Director, Rwanda and Director, Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission Program, Clinton Foundation 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 17	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) Speaker: Ricardo Hausmann, Director, CID and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, KSG 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 17	CID Special Event - "Thinking Big and Scaling Up – The BRAC Approach to Poverty Alleviation" Speaker: Fazle Hasan (F.H.) Abed, BRAC Founder Sponsored by: François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University School of Public Health; Harvard Initiative for Global Health; Center for International Development at Harvard University; Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University 4:00 - 6:00 PM Rm. 105, Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard Reception to follow Contact: CID Events
Sept 18	Critical Readings in Sustainability Science Research Title and Speaker TBA 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Sept 19	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Resilience Theory: Sustainability Analysis of the Petroleum Energy Economy" Speaker: Michael Burns, Giorgio Ruffolo Research Fellow and project manager, Sustainability Science Programme, South Africa�s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research "Changing Risk Perceptions: St. Louis County, Missouri and the 1993 Flood" Speaker: Carolyn Kousky, doctoral fellow, Sustainability Science Program and doctoral candidate, Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Sept 19	Economic Development Lunch Series Title and Speaker TBA 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Sept 20	The International Development Film Series "Deshantori" The backdrop of rht film is provided by reconstruction of the heart-wrenching story of 26 young Bangladeshis who set out on an illegal journey to Spain through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea in 2005. Through unexpected twists and turns, the film takes the viewer in a journey filled with emotions of all kinds - frustration, joy, anger, laughter, pain, and national pride. 6:30 PM Land Lecture Hall, 4th floor Belfer Building, KSG
Sept 21	CID Special Event - Sustainability Science at Harvard: A Celebration Panel discussions focusing on the growing body of sustainability science research and innovation being conducted at Harvard Hosted by CID Sustainability Science Program 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Bell Hall, 4th floor, Belfer Building, KSG Reception to follow (with Ceremony honoring the Giorgio Ruffolo Fellowships in Sustainability Science) - RSVP to maryanne_baumgartner@harvard.edu View program as PDF document
Sept 21	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "From Human Rights in Development to the Human Right to Development" Speaker: Stephen P. Marks, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 24	Lunches on Economic Policy (LEP) Title and Speaker TBA 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 25	Critical Readings in Sustainability Science Research Title and Speaker TBA 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Sept 25	Early registration deadline for Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference 2007 Contact: CID Events
Sept 26	Sustainability Science Fellows Seminar "Measurement and Sustainability: The Challenge of Evaluating in a Complex World" Speaker: Fred Carden, Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program and Director, Evaluation Unit, International Development Research Centre "Forging Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change and Poverty Reduction: The Role of Water Efficient Technologies and Decentralized Biofuel Production in Semi-Arid Regions" Speaker: Daniele Cesano, Giorgio Ruffolo Research Fellow in Sustainability Science, Founder, CO2nnect, and capacity building coordinator, SouthSouthNorth 9:00 - 10:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Sept 26	Economic Development Lunch Series "Determinants of VAT Evasion Among Small and Medium Size Firms in Chile" Speaker: Dina Pomeranz, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Sept 27	The International Development Film Series "The Agronomist" The film is about Jean Dominique, who hosted Radio Haiti-Inter, Haiti's first independent radio station. Director Jonathan Demme crafts this documentary with historical footage and interviews: the result is a serious recount of Haiti during its numerous regimes. The remarkable account of Jean Dominique and his radio hosting days is a struggle that outlasts its originator. The Agronomist was first shown on May 3, 2005 at the UN Headquarters in NYC while observing World Press Freedom Day. 6:30 PM Land Lecture Hall, 4th floor Belfer Building, KSG Contact:
Sept 28	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Moving Out of Poverty: Understanding Freedom, Democracy and Growth from the Bottom-Up" Speaker: Soumya Kapoor, Associate, Center for International Development 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events

August 2007
Aug 1	Economic Development Lunch Series "The Economics of Communist Party Membership in Post-Reform China" Speaker: Li Han, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Aug 1	Paper Submission deadline for Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference 2007 Contact: CID Events
Aug 8	Economic Development Lunch Series "Do Foreign Banks Reduce the Impact of Global Credit Supply Shocks? Evidence from Emerging Markets" Speaker: Philipp Schnabl, Doctoral Candidate, Political Economy and Government, Harvard University Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Aug 15	Economic Development Lunch Series "Gender, Intrahousehold Decisionmaking, and the Demand for Children" Speaker: Jean Lee, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Aug 29	Economic Development Lunch Series "Valuing Influence: The Effect of Salesmen on Retailers' Investment Decisions" Speaker: Amrita Ahuja, Doctoral Candidate, Business Economics, Harvard Business School 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz

July 2007
July 18	Economic Development Lunch Series Speaker: Sandra Sequeira, Doctoral Candidate, Political Economy & Government, Harvard University & KSG 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz

June 2007
June 1	Retirement Party for Professor Joe Stern 5:30 - 8:00 PM Nye B, 5th Floor, Taubman Building, KSG RSVP to CID Events Hosted by the Center for International Development Hors d�oeuvres and a cash bar will be available View invitation as PDF document
June 6	Economic Development Lunch Series "The Effects of Protected Forest Areas on Land Use and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Northern Thailand" Speaker: Kate Emans Sims, Doctoral Candidate, Political Economy & Government, Harvard University, and Doctoral Research Fellow, CID 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
June 7	Commencement Day
June 13	Economic Development Lunch Series "Determinants and Impacts of Microsavings: Project for a Randomized Experiment in Chile" Speakers: Felipe Kast, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy, KSG and Dina Pomeranz, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
June 17-29	Summer Course for Mexican MPA Students: "Information Technology and Innovation in Government" Organized by the CID Mexico Program Taught by: Jerry Mechling (lead faculty), Lecturer in Public Policy & Executive Education Program, KSG; Philipp Mueller, Director, MPA Program and Professor (co-lead); and Alexander Schellong, Fellow, Program for Networked Governance, KSG Sessions also taught by Akash Deep, Associate Professor of Public Policy, KSG; Marie Danziger, Lecturer in Public Policy & Director, Communications Program, Shorenstein Center, KSG; and David Lazer, Associate Professor of Public Policy & Director, Program on Networked Governance, KSG By invitation only
June 20	Economic Development Lunch Series "Do Jurors Discriminate? Evidence from Changes in State Juror Selection Procedures" Speakers: Jean Lee, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
June 25	CID Mexico Program Conference: "Information Technology and Government, In Mexico and Beyond: Issues, Experiences, and Challenges" Sessions on Citizen-Centric Government; Developing and Implementing Digital Strategies; and Technology, Education Policy, and Classroom Learning Participants include: Alfonso Martinez, Director, E-Government, State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico; Pablo Salazar, former Governor, State of Chiapas, Mexico; Felipe Bracho, founder of Enciclomedia Program; Claudia Boldman, Chief Planning and Strategy Officer, Information Technology Division, State of Massachusetts; and Reg Alcock, former President, Treasury Board, Canada 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor, Taubman Building, KSG For more information or to RSVP contact Beth Ela
June 27	Economic Development Lunch Series "Manipulation in Nascent Markets: Commodity Futures in India" Speaker: Stefan Hunt, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
June 30	Entry Deadline for the Quadir Prize - Annual Global Contest to Strengthen Bangladesh Essay contest for proposals to improve the lives of low- and middle-income people in Bangladesh. Due no later than 12:00 Midnight Contact: CID Events

May 2007
May 1-3	Mandatory Pre-Departure Orientation for Travel Grant Recipients Required orientation meetings for CID grant recipients Contact: Melissa Wojciechowski
May 1	Economic Growth and Development Workshop "Robust Inference with Multi-Way Clustering and Bootstrap-Based Improvements for Inference with Clustered Errors" Speaker: Doug Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California - Davis 2:30 - 4:00 PM Room E52-244, Sloan/E52 Building (MIT), 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
May 1	Technological Innovation for International Development (Presented by the Triple Helix Harvard Chapter) A panel of speakers on the role of science and technology in the developing world Speakers: Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Samuel Klein, Director of Content, One Laptop Per Child; and Suerie Moon, CID Pre-doctoral Fellow and Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy, KSG 6:45 PM Reception, 7:00 PM Talk & Q&A Emerson 305, Harvard Yard Contact: Yuyin Chen
May 2	Economic Development Lunch Series Speakers: Daniel Carvalho, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University; Paul Niehaus, Doctoral Candidate, Economics and Michael Faye, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
May 4	Final day of courses for Spring Term
May 4	Sustainability Science Program Panel Discussion "Closing the Knowledge-Action Gap in Global Health: Lessons from Malaria" A panel session at "The Looming Crises: Can We Act in Time?," a conference at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Speakers: William Clark (Moderator), Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, KSG; and CID Faculty Associate Tore Godal, Special Advisor and Consultant to the Prime Minister of Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Metrics Network, and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) Dean Jamison, Visiting Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development, KSG and the Harvard School of Public Health Onesmo ole-MoiYoi, Director of Research and Partnerships at the International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Kenya Nicole Szlez�k, CID Doctoral Fellow and Doctoral Student in Public Policy, KSG 11:15 - 12:30 PM Malkin Penthouse, 4th floor, Littauer Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
May 7	Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series "A Holistic Strategy for the Control of Malaria" Speaker: Onesmo ole-MoiYoi, Director of Research and Partnerships of the African Insect Science for Food and Health (ICIPE) 12:00 - 1:30 PM Lunch with RSVP to Mary Anne Baumgartner by Thursday, 3 May Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
May 8	Sustainability Science Seminar "Networked Governance: China's Changing Approach to Transboundary Environmental Management" Speaker: Erik Nielsen, Doctoral Candidate in Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, and Pre-doctoral Fellow, CID 8:30 - 10:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
May 9	Workshop on the Future Implications of a Global Biofuels Market for Economic Development, Environment and Trade Convenors: Henry Lee, Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Robert Lawrence, Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment, and William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development Co-sponsors: The Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea, CID's Sustainability Science Program, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program, KSG By invitation only Contact: Gloria Visconti
May 9	Economic Development Lunch Series Speaker: Winnie Fung, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University and Harvard Business School 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Room M16, Littauer Center, North Yard, Harvard University Contact: Dina Pomeranz
May 10	Internal Seminar "Early Childhood Interventions and Life Cycle Skill Development" Speaker: Dave Deming, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy, KSG Hosted by: Ricardo Hausmann, Director, CID and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, KSG 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Closed session; invitation only
May 11	"The Impact of the Global Water Crisis on Health and Human Development" Symposium hosted by the International Science and Health Network, Harvard Integrated Life Sciences, the Harvard Initiative for Global Health, and CID Featuring speakers from: the World Bank, CDC, MIT, Harvard University, Emory University, Oxfam America, and the San Juan del Sur Project 1:00 - 5:00 PM, Wine and cheese reception to follow Snyder Auditorium (Kresge G1), Harvard School of Public Health RSVP to watersymposium2007@gmail.com
May 15	Sustainability Science Seminar "The Consequences of Governance Interventions for Social Equity for Sustainable Development - Land Reform in India and Kenya" Speaker: Ashwini Chhatre, Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, Duke University, and Research Fellow, CID 8:30 - 10:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
May 15	Economic Growth and Development Workshop "Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School" Speaker: Analia Schlosser, Postdoctoral Fellow, Industrial Relations Section and Economics Department, Princeton University 2:30 - 4:00 PM Room E52-244, Sloan/E52 Building (MIT), 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
May 16	Economic Development Lunch Series Speaker TBA 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
May 17	Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series "Hybrid Knowledge, Linking Action to Knowledge, and Trust: Experiences Balancing Human Development and Conservation in East Africa" Speaker: Robin Reid, Principal Systems Socio-Ecologist and Project Leader, Sustaining Lands and Livelihood Project, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya 12:00 - 1:30 PM Lunch with RSVP to Mary Anne Baumgartner by Monday, 14 May Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
May 23	Economic Development Lunch Series "The Costs of 'Doing It Later': Evidence from ROSCAs in South India" Speaker: Sandip Sukhtankar, Doctoral Candidate, Political Economy and Government, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Room M16, Littauer Center, North Yard, Harvard University Contact: Dina Pomeranz
May 24	Internal Seminar "International Patterns of Specialization: What's Linkage Got to Do With it?" Speaker: Bailey Klinger, Doctoral Fellow, CID and Coordinator, South Africa Project Hosted by: Ricardo Hausmann, Director, CID and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, KSG 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Closed session; invitation only
May 24	Submission deadline for CID Thesis Prize Contact: Melissa Wojciechowski
May 30	Economic Development Lunch Series Speaker TBA 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Room M16, Littauer Center, North Yard, Harvard University Contact: Dina Pomeranz
May 30-31	Conference on Health Improvements for Economic Growth Supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation A project of the CID Growth Lab By invitation only Contact: CID Events
May 31	Internal Seminar "Taxation and the International Strategy of Japanese Multinational Enterprises" Speaker: Gregory Corcos, Visiting Scholar, Economics Department, Harvard University; Assistant Professor of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration Hosted by: Ricardo Hausmann, Director, CID and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, KSG 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Closed session; invitation only

April 2007
Apr 2	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Product Space, Product Quality, and the Emergence of New Export Activities" Speaker: Ernesto Stein, Lead Research Economist, Inter-American Development Bank; Growth Fellow, CID, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Apr 3	Sustainability Science Seminar "Biofuels as a Global Energy Commodity? An Issue in the Middle of Policy, Sustainability and Trade Agendas" Speaker: Gloria Visconti, Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Research Fellow, CID "Labor Supply and Productivity of Agricultural Workers in Kenya" Speaker: Jessica Leino, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, UC Berkeley, and Doctoral Fellow, CID 8:30 - 10:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Apr 3	CID/WAPPP Special Seminar "Women in Medell�n" Speaker: Lucrecia Ram�rez, Associate Professor, Psychiatry Department, University of Antioquia, Medellin; Coordinator Women�s Mental Health Academic Group, Medical School, University of Antioquia Co-sponsored by the Center for International Development and KSG's Women and Public Policy Program 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor, Littauer Building, KSG
Apr 4	Economic Development Lunch Series "Privatization And Its Impact On The Private Sector" Speaker: Quoc-Anh Do, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Institute of Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University "The Impact of the Hajj" Speaker: David Clingingsmith, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM, No lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Apr 4	CID Special Event - IOP Forum "Medell�n: From Fear to Hope" Speaker: Sergio Fajardo, Mayor, City of Medell�n, Colombia Co-sponsored by the Center for International Development, Kennedy School Colombia students, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Moderated by Ricardo Hausmann, Director, CID and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, KSG 6:00 PM IOP Forum, 1st Fl., Littauer Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Apr 6	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Improving Sovereign Debt Management: The Commonwealth Secretariat�s Perspective" Speaker: Jos� Maurel, Adviser & Head of Section, Special Advisory Services Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, United Kingdom 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Apr 9	Closed Session on Paraguayan Economic Growth and Political Institutions 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM By invitation only
Apr 9	Faculty Panel: The Economic Future of South Africa "How Can South Africa Accelerate Its Growth Rate?" Speakers: Matt Andrews, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, KSG; Ricardo Hausmann, Director, CID and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, KSG; Robert Lawrence, Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment and Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government; and Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, KSG Moderator: Michael Walton, Lecturer in International Development, KSG 4:10 PM, Reception to follow Littauer 150, Littauer Building, KSG
Apr 9	Public Roundtable Discussion with Paraguayan Legislators "Politica y Politicas P�blicas en el Paraguay" ("Politics and Public Policy in Paraguay") Speakers: Ernst Bergen, Minister of Finance, and Ana Mar�a Mendoza de Acha, 1st Vice President, Upper Chamber and Member of the Equity, Gender and Social Development Commission Moderated by: Merilee Grindle, Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development, Faculty Chair of MPA Programs, KSG and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies 5:30 - 7:00 PM, Reception to follow Discussion in Spanish CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250
Apr 9	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Contracts and Technology Adoption" Speaker: Elhanan Helpman, Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Department of Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Apr 10	Sustainability Science Seminar "The Role of Boundary Organizations in Linking Knowledge and Action: The Case of Payments for Ecosystem Services in Indonesia" Speaker: Elizabeth McNie, Doctoral Candidate in Environmental Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Doctoral Fellow, CID Title TBA Speaker: Kelsey Jack, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, KSG, and Pre-doctoral Fellow, CID 8:30 - 10:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Apr 10	Economic Growth and Development Workshop "Information Technology and Medical Missteps: Evidence from a Randomized Trial" (Download paper as PDF) Speaker: James Rebitzer, Frank Tracy Carlton Professor of Economics, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University 2:30 - 4:00 PM Sloan/E52 Building (MIT), 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Apr 11	Economic Development Lunch Series "The Business of Politics: Sugarcane Pricing in Cooperatives in Maharashtra, India" Speaker: Sandip Sukhtankar, Doctoral Candidate, Political Economy and Government, KSG "Speaking English in a Globalizing World: Information Technology and Education in India" Speaker: Kartini Shastry, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Emerson 210, Harvard Yard Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Apr 12	Internal South Africa Working Group Meeting 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Contact: CID Events
Apr 12	Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series "Measuring Avoided Deforestation from Land Use Policies" Speaker: Paul J. Ferraro, Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University 12:00 - 1:30 PM Lunch with RSVP to Mary Anne Baumgartner by Thursday, 5 April Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Apr 13	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar CID Sponsored SYPA Presentations (click for full titles) Speakers from the 2007 MPA/ID class: Brad Billings Mohamed El Dahshan Kristen Himelein Kusi Hornberger Idrissa Kanu and David Lam Linda Peia 11:45 AM - 1:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Apr 13	Second-round Application deadline for the Harvard International Development Summer Internship Fund (HIDIF) KSG Master's Students only; due no later than 5:00 PM to the KSG Office of Career Services Contact: CID Students
Apr 13	Application Deadline for Student Research Grants offered by the KSG-EGAP Mexico Program Funding for KSG students for field research in Mexico on issues relevant to public policy and international development. Due no later than 5:00 PM Contact: Beth Ela
Apr 16	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "The Damage from Clean Floats: From a Primarily Inflation Focused Monetary Policy" Speaker: Robin Pope, Senior Researcher, Bonn University, Germany 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Apr 17	Spring 2007 Deadline for CID Undergraduate Associate Applications Contact: Melissa Wojciechowski
Apr 17	Sustainability Science Seminar "Health and Disease, Local and Global - Science and Politics in the Emerging Global Health Domain: A Case Study of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria" Speaker: Nicole Szlez�k, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, KSG, and Doctoral Fellow, CID 8:30 - 10:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Apr 17	Come Share the Guadalupe Experience! Sponsored by the CID Mexico Program Lunch presentation 12:00 - 1:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Paty Jacques
Apr 17	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "Senior Thesis Presentations on Development" `(click above for presenters and titles)`5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Apr 17-21	Executive Education Program "New Thinking on Growth and Development Policy" Taught by: Ricardo Hausmann, Director, CID and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, KSG; Rohini Pande, Mohamed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, KSG; and Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, KSG Contact: Christie McQueen for more information about this program Contact: Aimee Pease Fox for inquiries about future programs
Apr 18	Economic Development Lunch Series "Micro-credit and Economic Well-being: Evidence from a Citywide Microfinance Expansion" Speaker: Dan Fetter, Doctoral Candidate, Political Economy and Government, KSG "Dividend Payout and the Taxation of Dividends: A Flip-Flop Policy Experiment from India" Speaker: Sebastian James, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy, KSG 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Apr 19	Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series "Social, Economic and Political Drivers of Bornean Deforestation and Fires: Implications for Carbon Emissions, Biodiversity and Rural Livelihoods" Speaker: Lisa Curran, Professor of Tropical Resources and Director of the Tropical Resources Institute School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University 12:00 - 1:30 PM Lunch with RSVP to Mary Anne Baumgartner by Thursday, 12 April Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Apr 19-21	The Argentina Colloquium Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for International Development Download conference program as PDF file Download list of participants as PDF file Closed session; invitation only Live video feed of Friday only; Littauer 280 Contact: Karen Armstrong
Apr 20-22	IDC 2007 - The New Face of Development: Integrating Lessons from the Past into Future Partnerships 13th Annual International Development Conference (IDC) View presentation materials IOP Forum, KSG Contact: IDC Contact Information
Apr 20	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Taking the Law Into Their Own Hands: The Informal Justice System of Guerrero, Mexico" Speakers: Ann Gurucharri, MPP '08; Tony Saudek, MPP '08; and Nik Steinberg MPP, '08 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Apr 23	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Plant Scale, Quality Differentiation and Exports" Speaker: Maurice Kugler, Department of Economics, University of Southampton (UK); Growth Lab Fellow, CID, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Apr 24	Sustainability Science Seminar "Protect Forest Areas and Development in Northern Thailand" Speaker: Kate Sims, Doctoral Candidate in Political Economy and Government, Harvard University, and Doctoral Fellow, CID 8:30 - 10:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Apr 24	Economic Growth and Development Workshop "Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of a Community Based Monitoring Project in Uganda" Speaker: Jacob Svensson, Professor of Development Economics, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden 2:30 - 4:00 PM Room E52-244, Sloan/E52 Building (MIT), 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Apr 25	Economic Development Lunch Series "Diversity, Teams and Productivity of Agricultural Workers in Kenya" Speaker: Jessica Leino, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, UC Berkeley, Doctoral Fellow, CID "Determinants of Tax Evasion: Preliminary Idea for a Randomized Experiment on the VAT in Chile" Speaker: Dina Pomeranz, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz

March 2007
Mar 1	Internal Seminar Presentation on papers by Rajan & Zingales, Aghion, Fally & Scarpetta, and Cabral Speaker: Bailey Klinger, Doctoral Fellow, CID and Coordinator, South Africa Project Hosted by: Ricardo Hausmann, Director, CID and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, KSG 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Closed session; invitation only
Mar 2	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Bridging the Development Divide Between Rural and Urban China" Speaker: Jianghua Chen, Founder and Principal, Yinjialin Community School, Shandong Province, China 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Mar 5	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market" Speaker: Murat Iyigun, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Colorado and Growth Lab Fellow, CID 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Mar 6	Sustainability Science Seminar "Protecting Biodiversity in Norwegian and Swedish Forestry: New Policy Instruments and Competing Knowledge Producers" Speaker: Lars Gulbrandsen, Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, University of Oslo, and Doctoral Fellow, CID 8:30 - 10:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Mar 6	Comparative Health System Seminar Series (Sponsored by the Asia Center) "Fiscal Federalism and Decentralization in India: Implications for Public Service Delivery" Speaker: Nirvikar Singh, Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz 4:30 - 6:00 PM CGIS Conference Room N354, Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street Contact: Barbara Hanrahan
Mar 7	Economic Development Lunch Series Speakers: Antonia Atanassova, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University, and Ryan Bubb, Doctoral Candidate, Political Economy and Government, KSG 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Mar 8	Internal Seminar "Savings and Unemployment Insurance in the Informal Sector: A Randomized Experiment" Speakers: Felipe Kast, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy, KSG and Dina Pomeranz, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University Hosted by: Ricardo Hausmann, Director, CID and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, KSG 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Closed session; invitation only
Mar 9	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "India and the Flowering of Democracy" Speaker: Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner of India 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Mar 12	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Crime and Punishment in the American Dream" Speaker: Rafael Di Tella, Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Mar 13	Sustainability Science Seminar "Drought-Induced Impacts on Livelihoods and the Role of Policy and Protected Areas on the Maasai of East Africa" Speaker: David Nkedianye, Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Environmental Change and Sustainability, University of Edinburgh, and Doctoral Fellow, CID 8:30 - 10:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Mar 13	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "Rural Development and Forest Conservation in Mexico: Lessons Learned for Policymakers" Speaker: Jordi Honey-Ros�s, Master in Public Policy Candidate; (formerly) Mexican Ministry of the Environment and Coordinator, Monarch Butterfly Conservation Program, World Wildlife Fund 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Mar 14	Economic Development Lunch Series "The Return to Capital for Small Retailers in Kenya" Speaker: Jean Lee, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Harvard University "Children�s Vulnerability to Shocks: Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua as a Natural Experiment" Speaker: Indhira Santos, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy, KSG 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Mar 15	Internal Seminar "High Jump Versus Long Jump" Speaker: Rodrigo Wagner, MPA/ID Candidate, KSG and Research Assistant to Ricardo Hausmann Hosted by: Ricardo Hausmann, Director, CID and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, KSG 12:00 - 1:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Closed session; invitation only
Mar 16	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Immigration as an Unregulated International Labor Market: Causes and Implications" Speaker: Minor Sinclair, United States Regional Director, Oxfam America 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Mar 16	First-round Application deadline for the Harvard International Development Summer Internship Fund (HIDIF) KSG Master's Students only; due no later than 5:00 PM to the KSG Office of Career Services Contact: CID Students
Mar 19	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia" Speaker: James Robinson, Professor of Government, Harvard University and The Institute of Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Mar 20	Sustainability Science Seminar "Challenge and Change: Exploring the Barriers to the Implementation of Green Chemistry in the United States" Speaker: Kira Matus, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, KSG, and Pre-doctoral Fellow, CID "Incentives for Research in Malaria: Assessing Open and Closed Intellectual Property Rights Regimes" Speaker: Suerie Moon, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, KSG, and Doctoral Fellow, CID 8:30 - 10:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Mar 20	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "Access to Essential Medicines: The Case of AIDS Drugs in China" Speaker: Suerie Moon, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy, KSG; Doctoral Fellow, Sustainability Science Program, CID 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Mar 21	Economic Development Lunch Series "Money is Not Everything: Fiscal Centralization and Teacher Effort in Rural China" Speaker: Li Han, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University "Oil, Coffee and Armed Conflict" Speaker: Oeindrila Dube, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy, KSG 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Mar 22	Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series "Property Rights for a Small Planet: The Role of Common Property in a Sustainable Future" Speaker: Margaret McKean, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University 12:00 - 1:30 PM Lunch with RSVP to Mary Anne Baumgartner Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Mar 22	Internal Seminar "High Jump Versus Long Jump" Speaker: Rodrigo Wagner, MPA/ID Candidate, KSG and Research Assistant to Ricardo Hausmann Hosted by: Ricardo Hausmann, Director, CID and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, KSG 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Closed session; invitation only
Mar 26-30	SPRING BREAK No scheduled events

February 2007
Feb 1	Application Deadline for CID Faculty Grants in Sustainability Science Grants for faculty research in fields related to sustainability science Contact: sustsci_grants@ksg.harvard.edu
Feb 2	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Milestones and Measurement: Assessing the Social Performance of Microfinance Institutions" Speaker: Katie Torrington, Research Coordinator, Policy and Technical Assistance Department, FINCA International 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 3	Voices for Africa Conference "Alive with Hope: Best Practices of Education in Africa" Keynote speaker: Paula Donovan, Senior Advisor, Office of the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM, Lunch served Askwith Lecture Hall, Longfellow Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education Contact: Inban Alon and Emily Springer
Feb 5	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 6	Sustainability Science Seminar Self-introductions and an overview of Spring plans for the Sustainability Science Program 8:30 - 10:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Feb 7	Economic Development Lunch Series 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Feb 7	Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series - Special Event "Bioenergy in a Globalizing World: Issues of Sustainable Development, Trade and Policy" Speaker: Corrado Clini, Director General, Italy�s Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea; Chairman of the Global Bioenergy Partnership 4:00 - 5:30 PM Maxwell Dworkin Lecture Hall, Harvard University North Yard, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge Contact: CID Events
Feb 9	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Strategic Communication to Fight Poverty: The Case of the Millennium Development Goals" Speaker: Empedocle Maffia, Special Advisor to the Executive Director of the World Bank 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 9	Application Deadline for WorldTeach Summer Internships Applications for undergraduates due no later than 5:00 PM Contact: info@worldteach.org
Feb 11 - 18	Harvard College in Asia Project (HCAP) Conference "Global Entrepreneurship: Opportunities on the Horizon" Contact: Dan Mejia
Feb 12	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment" Speakers: Laura Alfaro, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and Andrew Charlton, Research Economist, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 13	Sustainability Science Seminar "Sustainability Science: Core Questions and Grand Challenges" Speaker: William C. Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, KSG, Harvard University 8:30 - 10:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Feb 13	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "Declining International Inequality and Economic Divergence: Reviewing the Evidence Through Different Lenses" Speaker: Victoria Levin, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy, Harvard University 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 13	CID Global Health Student Group "Careers in Global Health - A Conversation with Dean Jamison" Speaker: Dean Jamison, Visiting Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development, KSG/HSPH; Professor in the School of Medicine, UCS 6:00 PM, Dinner served Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor, Littauer Building, KSG RSVP: Nicole Szlezak
Feb 14	Economic Development Lunch Series 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Feb 15	Application Deadline for 2007-2008 Vicki Norberg-Bohm Fellowship (for KSG Doctoral PhD Candidates) Fellowship to support Kennedy School of Government PhD candidates conducting early exploratory research on energy or environmental issues Contact: sustsci_grants@ksg.harvard.edu
Feb 16	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "The Demand for HIV Testing: Evidence from Zambia" Speaker: Nicholas Wilson, Doctoral Candidate, Economics, Brown University 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 16	Deadline for 2007 KSG-EGAP Mexico Program Guadalupe Challenge (for KSG and EGAP Students) Funding for one-week municipal consulting project in the city of Guadalupe during spring break - statement of interest due by 5:00 pm Contact: patricia_jacques@ksg.harvard.edu
Feb 20	Sustainability Science Seminar "Striding the Valley of Death - Can Monetary Prizes Speed Up the Translation of Basic Research Into Practice? A Case Study from the Field of Orphan Diseases (Lou Gehrig's Disease)" Speaker: Nicole Szlezak, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy, Doctoral Fellow, CID "Democracy on the Commons: Party Competition and Local Cooperation in India" Speaker: Ashwini Chhatre, Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, Duke University, Doctoral Fellow, CID 8:30 - 10:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Feb 21	Economic Development Lunch Series 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz
Feb 22 - 23	KSG Special Event "Green Chemistry: Integrating Science and Policy to Promote Innovation for Sustainable Prosperity" Hosted by: William Clark and Kira Matus, Center for International Development and Paul Anastas, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs By invitation only Contact: CID Events
Feb 23	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Practicing International Development with a Management Consultant Hat" Speaker: Rodrigo Martinez, Project Leader, Boston Consulting Group 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 23	MPA/ID and CID Special Event "Solutions When the Solution is the Problem: Understanding Debates in Development" Speaker: Lant Pritchett, Lead Economist, Environment and Social Unit, The World Bank 3:00 - 4:30 PM Land Lecture Hall, 4th Floor, Belfer Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 26	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Persistent Appreciations and Overshooting: A Normative Analysis" Speaker: Ricardo Caballero, Ford International Professor of Economics, MIT 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 26 - Mar 4	2007 International Bridge Builders Conference Contact: Mary Abdo
Feb 26	CID Winter Welcome By invitation only 4:00 - 5:30 PM, Wine and cheese served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 27	Sustainability Science Seminar "Moving Into the Floodplain: Chesterfield, Missouri and the 1993 Flood" Speaker: Carolyn Kousky, Doctoral Fellow, CID, Doctoral Fellow, Environmental Economics Program, KSG 8:30 - 10:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Feb 27	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "Developing a Global Gender Gap Index" Speaker: Fiona Greig, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy; Doctoral Fellow, CID 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 27	Application Deadline for CID Undergraduate Summer Travel Grants Research grants for summer travel in developing countries - 2007 applications due to OCS no later than 12:00 Noon Contact: Office of Career Services
Feb 28	Saudi Arabian Long Term Development Strategy Meeting 8:30 AM Alison Dining Room, 5th Floor, Taubman Building, KSG CLOSED SESSION
Feb 28	Economic Development Lunch Series "Inequality, Redistribution and Population Size" Speaker: Quoc-Anh Do, Doctoral Candidate, Economics; Institute of Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz

January 2007
Jan 31	Economic Development Lunch Series 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Dina Pomeranz

2006
December 2006
Dec 1	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Social Policy in Cuba" Speaker: Rafael Hernandez, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies, Center for International Development 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Dec 4	Sustainability Science Seminar Trip Reports and Discussions on Spring Semester Speakers and Events 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Dec 4	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Dollars Dollars Everywhere and Not a Dime to Lend?" Speaker: Asim I. Khwaja, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, KSG, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Dec 5	Fall 2006 Deadline for CID Undergraduate Associate Applications Contact: Melissa Wojciechowski
Dec 5	Economic Growth and Development Workshop Title TBA Speaker: Asim Khwaja, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, KSG, Harvard University 2:45 - 4:00 PM Harvard Hall 104
Dec 5	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "It's Not Easy Being Green: Employing Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development" Speaker: Kira Matus, Doctoral Research Fellow, Science, Environment and Development Group, CID 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Dec 6	Sustainability Science Seminar "Incentive Based Conservation: Paying for Erosion Control in Indonesia" Speaker: Kelsey Jack, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, KSG, Harvard University, Research Fellow, CID 10:00 - 10:45 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Dec 6	Economic Development Lunch Series "Peter Singer vs. Charles Dickens: Evaluating Particularist Ethics from a Universalist Standpoint" Speaker: Dan Wood, Harvard University; Michael Kremer, Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Department of Economics, Harvard University 1:10 - 2:20 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Dec 7	International Science and Health Network (ISHN) Discussion Group `�Young Leaders Summit on Global Health: Recap and Next Steps for Boston�` 5:30 PM, Pizza and drinks provided Room 447, T`osteson Medical Education Center, Harvard Medical School`Contact: Jason Heindl
Dec 8	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Leveraging Remittances for Development" Speaker: Dilip Ratha, Senior Economist, Development Prospects Group, World Bank 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Dec 11	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Peter Singer vs. Charles Dickens: Evaluating Particularist Ethics From a Universalist Standpoint" Speaker: Dan Wood, Harvard University; Michael Kremer, Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Department of Economics, KSG, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Dec 11	Deadline for Grant Proposals for Research on Remittances and Migration Funding for CID affiliates for research in the area of remittances and economic development. Contact: Aimee Pease Fox
Dec 12	Economic Growth and Development Workshop "Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption" Speaker: Tavneet Suri, Department of Economics, Yale University 2:45 - 4:00 PM Harvard Hall 104
Dec 12	CID Winter Celebration By invitation only Contact: CID Events
Dec 13	Economic Development Lunch Series "Peer Effects, Intra-household Bargaining and Contraceptive Adoption: Two Field Experiments in Lusaka and Zambia" Speaker: Jean Lee, 1:10 - 2:20 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Dec 13	Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series "Outcome Mapping: A Tool for Measuring the Results of Development Interventions and Innovations" Speaker: Fred Carden, Director, Evaluation Unit, International Development Research Centre, Canada 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Dec 14	CANCELLED Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series "Property Rights for a Small Planet: Role of Common Property in a Sustainable Future" Speaker: Margaret McKean, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University 1:00 - 2:30 PM, RSVP to Mary Anne with lunch request by Dec 11 Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Dec 15	CID Fellowships in Sustainability Science - Deadline for Preliminary Applications Resident fellowships at CID, open to advanced doctoral and post-doctoral students, and to professionals engaged in the practice of harnessing science and technology to promote sustainable development. Contact: Nancy Dickson
Dec 15	CID Faculty Grants in Sustainability Science - Deadline for Preliminary Letters of Intent Grants for faculty research in fields related to sustainability science. Preliminary letters of intent by 15 December 2006 are encouraged but not required; applications are due by 1 February 2007. Contact: Nancy Dickson
Dec 31 (previously)	Important! Entry Deadline for the Quadir Prize - Annual Global Contest to Strengthen Bangladesh has been changed to 30 June 2007 Essay contest for proposals to improve the lives of low- and middle-income people in Bangladesh. Due no later than 12:00 Midnight Contact: CID Events

November 2006
Nov 1	Economic Development Lunch Series "Bankruptcy Reform and Litigation" Speaker: Mario Gamboa-Cavazos, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:20 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 2	Seminar and Video Screening "Teaching and Learning about Poverty: A Video Case Study of Rural Oaxaca" Speakers: Guy Stuart, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government; Mariana Gabarrot, Escuela de Graduados en Administraci�n P�blica (EGAP), ITESM - Monterrey Sponsored by: KSG Mexico Program (a KSG-ITESM/EGAP collaboration), KSG Office of the Academic Dean, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Video Screening: *Si No Llueve (If It Doesn�t Rain)* 12:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Nov 2	KSG-EGAP Mexico Program Event "Lessons from the 2006 Presidential Election in Mexico: What Went Wrong and What Did Not?" Speaker: Luis Carlos Ugalde, Councilor President, Federal Election Institute Sponsored by: Harvard University Mexican Association, KSG-EGAP Mexico Program, CID 6:30 PM Starr Auditorium, Second Floor, Belfer, KSG Contact: Beth Ela
Nov 3	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Using Agro Processing Technologies to Empower Women in Sub Saharan Africa: Experiences in Zimbabwe and Zambia" Speaker: Ruth Chisina Mufute, Mason Fellow, KSG; Country Representative, Zambia, Namibia & Zimbabwe, Africare 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 6	Sustainability Science Seminar "Community Management of Water Infrastructure: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya" Speaker: Jessica Leino, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Doctoral Fellow, CID "Modeling Dynamics of Environmental Benefits in Response to Land Management as an Outcome of a Dominant Vegetation State" Speaker: Gili Koniak, Doctoral Research Fellow, CID 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Nov 6	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Introduction of New Goods, Convergence and Growth" Speaker: Jason Hwang, Doctoral Candidate in Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Nov 7	Economic Growth and Development Workshop "Parochial Politics: Ethnicity, Competition and Political Corruption" Speaker: Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 2:45 - 4:00 PM Harvard Hall 104
Nov 7	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "Inequality, Institutions and Growth in Mexico" Speaker: Michael Walton, Ph.D. Candidate, Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs, Princeton University 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 8	Economic Development Lunch Series "Do Parents Invest More in the Quality of their Children when Quantity is Restricted? Evidence from India's Forced Sterilization Program" Speaker: Sandip Sukhtankar, Doctoral Candidate in Political Economy and Government, Department of Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:20 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 13	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Pass-through at the Dock: Pricing to Currency and to Market?" Speakers: Oleg Itskhoki, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University; Gita Gopinath, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University; Roberto Rigobon, Associate Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Nov 14	Economic Growth and Development Workshop "Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment" Speaker: Chris Woodruff, Associate Professor of Economics, Director of Center for US-Mexico Studies, UC-San Diego 2:45 - 4:00 PM Harvard Hall 104
Nov 14	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "Resource-Curse in Reverse: The Coffee Crisis and Armed Conflict in Colombia" Speaker: Oeindrila Dub�, Doctoral Fellow, CID; Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 15	Economic Growth and Development Workshop Title TBA Speaker: Saugato Datta, Doctoral Candidate in Economics, MIT 2:30 - 4:00 PM E51-057, MIT
Nov 15	Application Deadline for Student Summer Research Grants offered by the KSG-EGAP Mexico Program Funding for KSG students for field research in Mexico on issues relevant to public policy and international development. Due no later than 5:00 PM Contact: Beth Ela
Nov 15	Economic Development Lunch Series "Resource-Curse in Reverse: The Coffee Crisis and Armed Conflict in Colombia" Speaker: Oeindrila Dube, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, Harvard University, Doctoral Fellow, CID 1:00 - 2:20 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 16	CID Conference: The Peruvian Growth Puzzle Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG By invitation only
Nov 17	CID Conference: Understanding Economic Growth in Bolivia 1970-2005 Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG By invitation only
Nov 17	CID Brown Bag Seminar Speaker: Annie Duflo, Head of Research Unit, Centre for Micro Finance, Institute for Financial Management and Research 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM L332, 3rd Floor, Littauer Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 20	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Mexico's Growth Puzzle" Speaker: Ricardo Hausmann, Director, CID, Professor of Economics, KSG 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Nov 22	Sustainability Science Seminar "Exchanging Local and Non-Local Knowledge in Land Use Change through Interactive Geographic Information Systems: The Case of the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica" Speaker: Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Doctoral Fellow, CID "Protecting Open Space: Local Zoning, Politics and Land Use Change in Massachusetts 1971-1999" Speaker: Kate Emans, Doctoral Candidate in Political Economy and Government, Harvard University, Doctoral Research Fellow, CID 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Nov 22	Economic Development Lunch Series "Trade, Institutions and Religious Tolerance: Evidence from India" Speaker: Saumitra Jha, Academy Scholar, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:20 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 23-24	Thanksgiving Break
Nov 27	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Trade, Diffusion and the Gains from Openness" Speaker: Andres Rodr�guez-Clare, Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Nov 27	Application Deadline for CID January Term Travel Grants Funding for travel to developing countries as part of PAE/SYPA. Due no later than 5:00 PM Contact: Melissa Wojciechowski
Nov 27	Sustainability Science Seminar "Bridging the Science-Practice Interface in Disaster Mitigation: Analytical Propositions Based on a Questionnaire Survey" Speaker: Juergen Weichselgartner, Doctoral Research Fellow, CID 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Nov 28	Economic Growth and Development Workshop Title TBA Speaker: Matthias Schuendeln, Assistant Professor in Economics and Social Studies, Harvard University 2:45 - 4:00 PM Harvard Hall 104
Nov 28	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "Identity Politics and Economic Outcomes" Speaker: Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 29	Economic Development Lunch Series "Media Freedom, Bureaucratic Incentives, and the Resource Curse" Speaker: Georgy Egorov, Department of Economics, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:20 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events

October 2006
Oct 2	Sustainability Science Seminar "Accountability in Decentralization and the Democratic Context: Theory and Evidence from India" Speaker: Ashwini Chhatre, Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, Duke University, Doctoral Fellow, CID "Beyond Borders: Networked Governance and China�s Engagement in Transboundary Environmental Management in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region" Speaker: Erik Nielsen, Doctoral Candidate in Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, Doctoral Fellow, CID 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Oct 2	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Growth Collapses" Speaker: Francisco Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Economics and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Oct 3	Sustainability Science Seminar "Springs: Water Quality and Child Health in Kenya" Speaker: Alix Zwane, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley 12:00 - 1:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Oct 3	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "The Economics of Malaria" Speaker: Derek Willis, Ph.D. Candidate, Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs, Princeton University 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 3	Economic Growth and Development Workshop "Patterns of Ethnic Group Segregation and Civil Conflict" Speaker: Janina Matuszeski, Harvard University 2:45 - 4:00 PM Harvard Hall 104
Oct 4	Sustainability Science Seminar "Lessons Relearned: Can Experience with Incentive-Based Instruments in Environmental Policy Point the Way for Payments for Ecosystem Services?" Speaker: Kelsey Jack, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, KSG, Harvard University; Bailey Klinger, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, KSG, Harvard University; Kate (Emans) Sims, Doctoral Research Fellow, CID, Harvard University 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Oct 4	Economic Development Lunch Series "Banking on Your Reputation: The Impact of Credit Bureaus on Banking" Speaker: Philipp Schnabl, Doctoral Candidate in Political Economy and Government, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:20 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 6	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "How Inefficiencies Deprive the Poorest of Aid" Speaker: Scot Gallaher, Engagement Manager, Dalberg Global Development Advisors [background documents available here] 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 11	Economic Development Lunch Series "Globalization, Information Technology and Higher Education in India" Speaker: Kartini Shastry, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University 1:10 - 2:20 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 13	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "International Water Needs and Unfunded U.S. Government Mandates" Speaker: Dennis Warner, Senior Technical Advisor - Water Supply, Sanitation and Water Resources Development Catholic Relief Services 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 16	Sustainability Science Seminar "Nine Lives of a Variable: Perspectives on Fieldwork and Data Collection" Speaker: Ashwini Chhatre, Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, Duke University, Doctoral Fellow, CID 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Oct 16	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Governance Reform: Bridging Monitoring and Action" Speaker: Brian Levy, Advisor, Public Sector Governance, World Bank 1:00 - 2:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Oct 17	Economic Growth and Development Workshop "Teacher Incentives in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from India" Speaker: Karthik Muralidharan, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University 2:45 - 4:00 PM Harvard Hall 104
Oct 18	Economic Development Lunch Series "Resource-Curse in Reverse: The Coffee Crisis and Armed Conflict in Colombia" Speaker: Oeindrila Dube, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, Harvard University, Doctoral Fellow, CID 1:10 - 2:20 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 19	Global Health Professional Interest Council (PIC) Kick-Off Meeting 5:00 - 6:00 PM, Refreshments served Film Screening: "Rx For Survival" 6:00 - 8:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 20	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Building Competitiveness in Emerging Markets: An Unconventional Approach to Development" Speakers: Aliya Shariff, Associate, Caribbean Region, On the Frontier Group; Marcela Escobari, Director, On the Frontier Group 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 23	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Resource-Curse in Reverse: The Coffee Crisis and Armed Conflict in Colombia" Speaker: Oeindrila Dube, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, Harvard University, Doctoral Fellow, CID 1:10 - 2:20 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 24	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "Between the Black-Box and Open Community Participation: Spatial Planning Models for Evaluating Development and Conservation Paths (Cases in Mexico and Costa Rica)" Speaker: Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno, Doctoral Fellow, CID; Doctoral Candidate, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 24	Economic Growth and Development Workshop "Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India" Speaker: Chang-Tai Hsieh Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley 2:45 - 4:00 PM Harvard Hall 104
Oct 25	Economic Development Lunch Series "The Market for Political Patronage: Evidence from College Students in China" Speaker: Li Han, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:20 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 25	Sustainability Science Seminar "Beyond the Bretton Woods Institutions: Global Health in the 21st Century" Speaker: Nicole Szlez�k, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, KSG, Harvard University, Doctoral Research Fellow, CID, Harvard University "Radical Innovation for Sustainability: Exploring the Barriers to Green Chemistry in the United States" Speaker: Kira Matus, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, KSG, Harvard University, Doctoral Research Fellow, CID, Harvard University 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Oct 27	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Does Public Funding of Parties Reduce Corruption?" Speaker: Alejandro Poir�, Antonio Madero-Fundaci�n M�xico Visiting Scholar, Harvard University 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 30	Lunches on Development Policy (LDP) "Foreign Direct Investment and Migration: Substitutes or Complements?" Speaker: Maurice Kugler, Research Fellow, CID Growth Lab Program, Harvard University 1:10 - 2:20 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 31	Economic Growth and Development Workshop "Industrialization and Language Shift in India" Speaker: David Clingingsmith, Department of Economics, Harvard University 2:45 - 4:00 PM Harvard Hall 104

September 2006
Sept 6	Economic Development Lunch Series 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 9	Blue Sky Conference By invitation only Contact: CID Events
Sept 11	CID Fellows Orientation 9:00 AM - 12:00 noon Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 11	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) "The Topology of the Product Space: Implications for Structural Transformation and Convergence" Speaker: C�sar Hidalgo, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Notre Dame 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG By invitation only Contact: Robert Mitchell
Sept 12	CID Open House Meet CID faculty and staff, hear about our programs, and enjoy light refreshments 4:00 - 6:00 PM 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Open to the Harvard community Contact: CID Events
Sept 13	Economic Development Lunch Series 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 15	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "The Politics of Policies in Latin America" Speaker: Ernesto Stein, Lead Research Economist, Inter-American Development Bank; Growth Fellow, CID 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 18	Sustainability Science Seminar "Core Questions and Collaborations of the Science, Environment and Development Group" Speakers: Nancy Dickson, Senior Researcher, CID; William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, KSG 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Sept 18	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) "International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship" Speaker: Laura Alfaro, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG By invitation only Contact: Robert Mitchell
Sept 18	CID Welcome Reception 4:00 - 6:00 PM 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG By invitation only Contact: CID Events
Sept 19	Economic Growth and Development Workshop "Political Competition and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence from the United States" Speaker: Tim Besley, Professor of Economics and Political Science, London School of Economics 2:30-4:00 PM Harvard Hall 104
Sept 20	Economic Development Lunch Series "Main and Spillover Effects of a Child Welfare Grant in South Africa" Speaker: Iris Boutros, Doctoral Candidate, Population and International Health, Doctoral Fellow, CID 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 22	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Special and Differential Treatment for Vulnerable Small Island Developing States (SIDS): The Case of the Caribbean Bananas" Speaker: Norris Prevost, Minister of Tourism and Member of Parliament, Dominica; Mason Fellow, KSG 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 25	Frontiers in Sustainable Development Speaker Series "Reconstruction of New Orleans Following Hurricane Katrina: A Research Perspective" Speaker: Robert Kates, Independent Scholar 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Sept 25	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) "Fear of Floating or Fear of Sinking?" Speaker: Federico Sturzenegger, Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG By invitation only Contact: Robert Mitchell
Sept 26	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group The Reform of U.S. Foreign Assistance Speaker: George Moose, Adjunct Professor in International Practice, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University; Career Ambassador, U.S. Foreign Service (retired) 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 26	Economic Growth and Development Workshop "HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why Not Africa?" Speaker: Emily Oster, Becker Fellow, University of Chicago 2:30-4:00 PM Harvard Hall 104
Sept 27	Economic Development Lunch Series "Tax Evasion and Corrupt Agents" Speaker: Sebastian James, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy "Credit, Transaction Costs, and Irrigation in India" Speaker: Ryan Bubb, KSG 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 29	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Educational Interventions in the Developing World: What�s the Biggest Bang for the Buck?" Speaker: Dave Evans, Associate Economist, Rand Corporation 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events

May 2006
May 1-5	Executive Education Program: "New Thinking on Growth and Development Policy" Faculty chairs: Ricardo Hausmann and Dani Rodrik Not open to the public Contact CID Events
May 4	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "Watch your Tail(s): Qualitative Analysis of Regression Residuals" Speaker: Arun Agrawal, `Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Michigan` 1:30 - 3:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
May 5	Final day of courses for Spring Term
May 8	Lunches on International Economic Policy "A Gold Rush Theory of Economic Development" Speaker: Ralph Ossa, Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
May 9	CID Special Event "Fuel Subsidies in Indonesia: Poverty and Social Impact Analysis" Speaker: Meltem Aran, PREM Poverty Team, World Bank Office Jakarta 4:30 - 5:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
May 11-13	Equality and the New Global Order Conference Co-sponsored by the Edmund J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics Keynote Speakers: Mathias Risse, Harvard University, and Amartya Sen, Harvard University Open to the public
May 15	CID Growth Lab Seminar: South Africa Economic Performance and Prospects By invitation only
May 19	CID Year-End Celebration By Invitation Only
May 25	Deadline for CID Thesis Prize Submissions For senior undergraduates only

April 2006
Apr 3	Lunches on International Economic Policy "Economic Growth in South Asia: Promising, Un-equalizing�Sustainable?" Speaker: Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank; Editor, World Bank Research Observer 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Apr 4	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "How Media and Information Technology Can Help The World's Poor" Speaker: Robert Jensen, Associate Professor of Public Policy, KSG 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Apr 5	International Science and Health Network (ISHN) Symposium `�Biotechnology in the Developing World�` 1:30 - 5:00 PM, Reception to Follow T`osteson Medical Education Center, Harvard Medical School`Contact: Jason Heindl
Apr 6	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "What Drives Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation to Natural Hazards? Meta-analysis of Causes and Drivers" Speaker: Juergen Weichselgartner, Research Fellow, Center for International Development 1:30 - 3:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Apr 7	Second Round Deadline for Harvard International Development Internship Fund (HIDIF) Summer internships for first-year KSG students - deadline is 5:00 PM
Apr 7-9	International Development Conference (IDC) 2006 Keynote Speaker: Zachie Achmat, HIV/AIDS Activist, South Africa IOP Forum, KSG Contact: IDC Co-Chairs
Apr 10	Lunches on International Economic Policy "A Book Discussion: The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good" Speaker: Bill Easterly, Author 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Apr 11	Research on Sustainable Development Seminar "Mapping the Science-Practice Interface in Sustainable Development: Perspectives from the Arena of Vulnerability and Resilience" Speaker: Roger Kasperson, Department of Geography, Clark University 12:00 - 1:30 PM, Lunch Provided with RSVP by April 7 Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Apr 11	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "No Bourgeois, No Development: The Holocaust�s Lasting Impact on European Institutions" Speaker: Tarek Hassan, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Economics, FAS 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Apr 13	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "A Discussion About Economics and Non-Convex Ecosystems" Speaker: Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge 12:00 - 1:30 PM, Lunch Provided with RSVP by April 10 Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Apr 13	CID Special Event "Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment" Speaker: Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge 4:20 - 6:00 PM Wiener Auditorium, Ground Fl., Taubman Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Apr 17	Lunches on International Economic Policy "Property Rights for the Poor: Effects of Land Titling" Speaker: Ernesto Schargrodsky, Professor of Business, Universidad Torcuato di Tella 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Apr 17	CID Special Event - IOP Forum "Promoting Development in Latin America: What Are the Key Issues of the Day?" Speaker: Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American Development Bank 6:00 - 7:00 PM IOP Forum, 1st Fl., Littauer Building Contact: CID Events
Apr 20	Deadline for CID Undergraduate Associate Applications Download the 2006 Undergraduate Associate Application (PDF). Applications should be submitted to Melissa Wojciechowski, R408.
Apr 20	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "Linking Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development: A Review of Theories and Strategies" Speaker: Lorrae van Kerkhoff, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University 1:30 - 3:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Apr 24	Lunches on International Economic Policy "The Interface Between Social Protection, Social Security, and Labor Markets: How is Productivity Affected?" Speaker: Santiago Levy, Former Director-General of the Mexican Social Security Institute 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Apr 25	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "Senior Thesis Presentations on Development" `(click above for presenters and titles)` 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Apr 26	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar Co-sponsored by the KSG Education Policy Professional Interest Council "The Impact of Education on Ireland's Economy" Speaker: S�le de Valera, Minister of State, Department of Education & Science, Ireland 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Apr 27	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "Representation, Citizenship, and the Public Domain: The Effects of Institutional Choice in Natural Resource Management" Speaker: Jesse C. Ribot, Senior Associate, Institutions and Governance Program, World Resources Institute 1:30 - 3:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Apr 27	CID Special Event "The Elixir of Economic Growth: Emerging Investment Opportunities in Pakistan" Speaker: Muhammad Mian Soomro, Chairman, Senate of Pakistan 4:00 - 5:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Apr 28	Research on Sustainable Development Seminar "Impacts of Conditional Land Tenure Agreements in Contested Watersheds in Lampung, Indonesia: Poverty Alleviation and Commitments to Protect the Remaining Forest" Speaker: S. Suyanto, Environmental Economist, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Southeast Asian Regional Research Programme 10:00-11:30 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Library, Littauer 369, KSG
Apr 28-29	CID Conference: Venezuelan Economic Growth 1970-2005 Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG RSVP to CID Events

March 2006
Mar 2	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "Setting Policy Norms in Global Health? The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria" Speaker: Nicole Szlez�k, Research Fellow, Center for International Development 1:30 - 3:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Mar 6	Lunches on International Economic Policy "Monkeying Around: On the Pattern of Productive Transformation" Speaker: Ricardo Hausmann, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Mar 7	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "How Educational Vouchers Work: Evidence from Vocational Schools in Colombia" Speaker: Juan Saavedra, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy Program 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Mar 9	Research on Sustainable Development Seminar "Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence" Speaker: William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, Kennedy School of Government 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Mar 10	Joint CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar and Research on Sustainable Development Seminar "Environmental Governance in a Development Context: The Calabash Project's Use of Environmental Impact Assessment as a Catalyst for Participatory Decision-Making in Southern Africa" Speaker: Peter Croal, Senior Environment Specialist, Environmental Assessment and Compliance Unit, Environment Division, Policy Branch, Canadian International Development Agency 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Mar 13	Lunches on International Economic Policy "Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from UN Diplomats' Parking Violations" Speaker: Ray Fisman, Columbia Business School 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Mar 13	CID Special Event "An Introduction to Microsoft Research India" Speaker: Aishwarya Ratan (MPA/ID '05), Associate Researcher, Technology for Emerging Markets Group, Microsoft Research India 5:00 - 6:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Mar 14	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "The Difficulty of Reaching the Poorest: Social Networks and MFI Lending Policies" Speaker: Erica Field, Associate Professor of Economics, FAS 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Mar 15	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Fighting Corruption: Beyond Ethics, Laws, and Coercion - A Game Theory Perspective" Speaker: Ronald MacLean-Abaroa, Former Mayor of La Paz and Senior Urban Governance Specialist The World Bank Institute 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Mar 16	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "Opportunity and Entrepreneurial Innovation at the Nexus of Business and Sustainability" Speaker: Andrea Larson, Associate Professor, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia 1:30 - 3:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Mar 17	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "New Realities in an Old World: Lebanon and the Arab World" Speaker: Wissam Yafi (MPA/ID '01), Founder, TidWit Inc. 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Mar 17	Deadline for Harvard International Development Internship Fund (HIDIF) Summer internships for first-year KSG students - First round deadline is Friday, March 17 at 5:00 PM (second round deadline is Friday, April 7)
Mar 21	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "Information and Uncertainty in the Search for New Exports: Using Case Studies to Explore the Self-Discovery Model" Speaker: Bailey Klinger, Doctoral Candidate, Public Policy Program, KSG 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Mar 23	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "Drug Development for Neglected Diseases: Are Public-Private Partnerships an Answer?" Speaker: Nicole Szlez�k, Research Fellow, Center for International Development 1:30 - 3:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Mar 27-31	Spring Recess

February 2006
Feb 3	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "The Global Fund: A Paradigm Shift for Development" Speaker: Brad Herbert, Former Chief of Operations, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria 11:30 AM-1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, One Eliot Building Contact CID Events
Feb 3	Deadline for WorldTeach Summer Internship Applications Applications for undergraduates due no later than 5:00 PM
Feb 4	Voices for Africa's 3rd Annual Conference "Breaking Down Barriers: Promoting Educational Success for African and African Immigrant Students" Keynote Speaker: Yolande Miller-Grandvaux, USAID Panels: "African Immigrants in US Schools: Cultural Adaptations and Identity Formation;" "Education and Technology in Africa;" and "Education, Health, and Stigma in Africa" 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Gutman Library Conference Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education Contact: Voices for Africa
Feb 7	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "The Household Decision to Care for an Orphan in South Africa: Does AIDS Matter?" Speaker: Iris Boutros, Doctoral Candidate, Population and International Health, Doctoral Fellow, CID 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 10	International Networking Fair Office of Career Services 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM Taubman A, B, and C
Feb 10	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "The Ethiopian Financial Reform: Lessons Ten Years On" Speaker: Stephen Peterson, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and Associate of the Center for Business and Governement, KSG 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 11-12	Symposium: "Ethiopia - Prospects for a Stable Multi-Party Democracy" Organized by the Harvard Black Law Student Association and Harvard African Law Association
Feb 13	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) "Is There Consumer Demand for Improved Labor Standards? Evidence from Field Experiments in Social Labeling" Speaker: Michael Hiscox, Professor of Government, FAS 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 14	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "The Settlement of Civil Wars: The Balance of Security is Key" Speaker: Monica Toft, Associate Professor of Public Policy, KSG, Assistant Director, John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 17	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Millennium Challenge Corporation, Reducing Poverty Through Growth" Speaker: Anne Rothbaum, Associate Director, Monitoring and Evaluation, Millennium Challenge Corporation 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 22-25	The IMPACT Summit Organized by the Harvard College International Development Organization Contact: Jenni Fauci, Stephanie Hodges and Janice Whang
Feb 23	Research on Sustainable Development Seminar "Environmental Governance" Speaker: Arun Agrawal, `Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Michigan` 1:30 - 3:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Feb 24	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Making the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Real" Speaker: Chandrika Bahadur, Policy Advisor and Manager, Country Support, United Nations Millennium Project 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 24	Deadline for CID Undergraduate Summer Travel Grants Research grants for summer travel in developing countries - 2006 applications due no later than 12 noon
Feb 27	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) "African Orphans" Speaker: Anne Case, Research Program in Development Studies, Princeton University 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 27 - Mar 3	2006 International Bridge Builders Conference Contact: David Scatterday
Feb 28	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "Technology, Data, and the Earthquake Relief Effort: The RISEPAK Portal" Speaker: Asim Khwaja, Associate Professor of Public Policy, KSG 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events

January 2006
Jan 30	Lunches on International Economic Policy "South Africa: First Impressions" Speakers: Members of the Recent Delegation to South Africa 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Jan 31	Special Preview Movie Screening "Nations Zero: War and Peace in the 21st Century" Co-produced by: Marco Kamiya, MPA/ID '02 Light refreshments at 3:30 PM Movie 4:00 - 5:00 PM Starr Auditorium, 2nd Fl. Belfer Bldg, KSG

2005
December 2005
Dec 1	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Group Post-doctoral Fellowship Application Deadline Fellowship for post-doctoral students offered jointly by the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) and Prof. Bill Clark. Preliminary application due via email. Contact: Mary Anne Baumgartner
Dec 2	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Security and Development - The US Military's Role in Africa" Speaker: Matt Sousa, Foreign Area Officer, Sub-Saharan Africa 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Dec 5	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) "Macro Lessons from Microstructure" Speaker: Carol Osler 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Robert Mitchell
Dec 6	International Science and Health Network (ISHN) Seminar "Rural China and Health Services" 12:30 PM, Lunch served Room 126, MEC, Harvard Medical School Contact: Jason Heindl
Dec 6	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "Governing the Environment" Speaker: Arun Agrawal, Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Michigan; Visiting Scholar, CID 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Dec 7	Research on Sustainable Development Seminar "Global Warming: Combining Mitigation and Adaptation" Speaker: Carlo Jaeger, Head, Social Systems Department, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK); and Professor of Modeling Social Systems, University of Potsdam, Germany Hosted by Professor William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, KSG Co-sponsored by the Science Environment and Development Group, the Center for International Development, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Dec 8	International Science and Health Network Discussion Group "Science, Health, and Developing Countries" 12:30 PM Dudley House Private Dining Room Contact: Matt Stremlau
Dec 9	* POSTPONED due to inclement weather * (To be rescheduled early in 2006) Social Science Research Council presents Seminar on Fieldwork, Science, and Ethics Chaired by: Arun Agrawal, Visiting Scholar, Center for International Development, Harvard University 12:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG RSVP REQUIRED: cid_events@harvard.edu
Dec 12	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) "Appropriate Technology, Technology Choice, and Economic Performance in Developing Countries" Speaker: Justin Lin 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Robert Mitchell
Dec 14	Research on Sustainable Development Seminar "Payments for Environmental Services: A Pathway Out of Poverty?" Speaker: Katherine Warner, Managing Director for Forestry and Natural Resource Management, Winrock International Hosted by Professor William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, KSG Co-sponsored by the Science Environment and Development Group, and the Center for International Development 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Dec 23 - Jan 2	CID closed for winter break

November 2005
Nov 1	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "US Army Civil Affairs and Its Role in International Development" Speaker: Dennis Cahill, Lieutenant Colonel, US Army Civil Affairs; and National Security Fellow, KSG 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 2	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "Three Packs a Day: The Economic Costs from the Health Impacts of Chinese Urban Air Pollution" Speaker: Kira Matus, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, CID "Civic Entrepreneurship: Lessons for Sustainable Development" Speaker: Nancy Odeh, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, CID 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Nov 4	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "The Story of GrameenPhone" Speaker: Iqbal Quadir, Lecturer in Public Policy, KSG 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 7	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) "Can Dark Matter Avoid the Big Bang? On the (Non)Existence of the US Current Account Deficit" Speaker: Federico Sturzenegger 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Robert Mitchell
Nov 8	Research on Sustainable Development Seminar "Dam It! Environmental Advocacy in China: Public Protest and China's Environmental Policy Process" Speaker: Wang Yongchen, Senior Environment Reporter for China National Radio and President of Green Earth Volunteers Hosted by Professor Tony Saich, Faculty Chair of Asia Programs, Harvard University; Co-sponsored by the Science, Environment and Development Group, the Center for International Development, the China Project, and the Harvard University Center for Environment 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 8	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "UNDP and the Arab States: A Regional Perspective" Speaker: Nada Al-Nashif, Chief, Regional Programme Division, UNDP 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 9	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "International Collaboration on Scientific and Technological Projects" Speaker: Jeff Bielicki, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, CID "Environmental Regional Planning: What is the Role of Local Communities in the Definition of Environment and Development Plans? The Cases of Mexico and Costa Rica" Speaker: Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, CID 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Nov 14	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) "Trade, Gravity and Sudden Stops: On How Commercial Trade Can Increase the Stability of Capital Flows" Speaker: Eduardo Cavallo, Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Robert Mitchell
Nov 15	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "Building Competitiveness in Developing Countries" Speakers: Marcela Escobari, Director, On the Frontier Group; Anne Morriss, Manager, On the Frontier Group 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 16	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "Implementing Payments for Ecosystem Services: Bridging the Theory-Practice Gap" Speakers: Kate Emans, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, CID; Carolyn Kousky, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, CID; Kelsey Jack, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, CID 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Nov 16	International Science and Health Network Seminar "Gimme Shelter: From the Tsunami to Katrina, the Year of Disaster" Speaker: Nathaniel Raymond, Communications Advisor for Humanitarian Response, OxFam America 12:30 PM, Lunch served Room 250, MEC, Harvard Medical School Contact: Jason Heindl
Nov 17	CID Special Event "The Mexican Economy: Recent Developments and Perspectives" Speaker: Francisco Gil-Diaz, Finance Minister of Mexico Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for International Development and the Harvard University Mexican Association 6:00 - 7:30 PM Wiener Auditorium, Ground Floor, Taubman Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 18	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "The Politics of Public Health: Experiences from Afghanistan, Nicaragua, the Philippines, and Senegal" Speaker: Jonathan Quick, MD; President/CEO, Management Sciences for Health 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 21	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) "Current Research on U.S. Import and Export Prices Using Confidential Micro Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics" Speaker: Gita Gopinath 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Robert Mitchell
Nov 28	CID January Travel Grants Application Deadline Funding for travel to developing countries as part of PAE/SYPA. Due no later than 5:00 PM Contact: Melissa Wojciechowski
Nov 28	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) Speaker: Zhou Liu, Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Robert Mitchell
Nov 29	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "The Challenge of Sustainable Development" Speaker: William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, KSG 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Nov 30	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "Payments for Environmental Services" Speakers: William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, KSG 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG

October 2005
Oct 3	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) "Cleaning Up the Kitchen Sink: On the Consequences of the Linearity Assumption for Cross-Country Growth Empirics" Speaker: Francisco Rodriguez 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Robert Mitchell
Oct 5	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "Research Collaborations of the SED Group" Speaker: William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, KSG "Beyond Borders: Emerging Forms of Transnational Advocacy for Improved Environmental Governance in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region" Speaker: Erik Nielsen, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, CID 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Oct 6	Research on Sustainable Development Seminar "Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Political Subjects" Speaker: Arun Agrawal, Professor, University of Michigan and Visiting Scholar at CID 12:00 - 1:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 6	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "Education and Development at the World Bank: What Works and How" Speaker: Elizabeth King, Research Manager for Public Services of the Development Research Group, World Bank 6:00 - 7:30 PM (note change), Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 7	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Impacting the Foreign Assistance System: Alternative Careers in Development and Foreign Policy" Speakers: Michael Phelan, Professional Staff Member, Committee on Foreign Relations; and Laura Wilson, Congressional Liaison Officer, Appropriations, USAID 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 12	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "The Challenge of Ecosystem Service Policy" Speaker: Carolyn Kousky, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, CID "GM Crops, Globalization and Institutional Change in Developing Countries" Speaker: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Research Fellow, CID 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Oct 14	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "The Emerging Era of Global Health Diplomacy" Speaker: Jack Chow, Special Envoy of the Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO) 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 17	Research on Sustainable Development Seminar "Russian Understandings of Sustainable Development: Biospheres, Noospheres and Theories of Biotic Regulation" Speaker: Jonathan Oldfield, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 17	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) Speaker: Kristen Forbes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Robert Mitchell
Oct 18	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "The Peace and Security Strategy: Development in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria" Speaker: Judy Asuni, Executive Director of Academic Associates Peace Works (AAPW) 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 19	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "Sustainable Development Without the Development? The Effects of Forest Protection Policies on Asset Growth in Thai Villages" Speaker: Kate Emans, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, CID "Unscientific Observations: Two Years in Laos" Speaker: Kelsey Jack, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, CID 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Oct 19	Microfinance and Development Venture Capital Network (MADVC) Brown Bag Lunch Seminar "Making Financial Markets Work for the Poor � the ICICI Bank Story" Speaker: Nachiket Mor, Executive Director of ICICI Bank, India 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Oct 20	International Science and Health Network Discussion Group "Drugs for Neglected Diseases" 6:00 PM, Dinner served Room 717, SPH Building I, Harvard School of Public Health RSVP for dinner and to receive articles for discussion. Contact: Jason Heindl
Oct 21	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Good News Doesn't Sell Newspapers -- and Other Perspectives on Development Work in Africa" Speaker: Burris Devanney, Executive Director, Nova Scotia-Gambia Association 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 24	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) "A Microeconomist's Take on Growth Theory" Speaker: Abhijit Banerjee 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Robert Mitchell
Oct 25	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "Ecosystems, Economic Growth, and Local Livelihoods: Observations from Laos PDR" Speaker: Kelsey Jack, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, CID 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Oct 26	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "Green Chemistry Theory and Practice" Speaker: Paul Anastas, Senior Research Fellow, CID and Director, Green Chemistry Institute "Problem-Solving and Local Needs: What Kinds of Capabilities Do We Need? Implications for Inducement Theory and Policy" Speaker: Smita Srinivas, Associate, CID and Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Oct 27	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar Sponsored by CID and the Belfer Center's Program on Intrastate Conflict "How to Solve Zimbabwe's Problems - Steps Needed to Restore Democracy, Revive the Economy and Heal the Nation" Speaker: Andrew Meldrum, Journalist 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Lunch served *Note different day/time* Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events

September 2005
Sept 1	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "Analysis of Qualitative Data: A Demonstration and Discussion of NVivo Software" Speaker: Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, CID 10:00 - 11:00 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Sept 12	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) "It's Not How Much but What You Export That Matters" Speaker: Ricardo Hausmann, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development; Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Robert Mitchell
Sept 16	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "The Challenges of State Building in Conditions of Persistent Conflict" Speaker: Mr. Ashraf Ghani, Chancellor of Kabul University and former Minister of Finance, Afghanistan 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 19	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) "Appropriate Growth Policy" Speaker: Philippe Aghion, Professor of Economics 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Robert Mitchell
Sept 19	*CANCELLED* CID and The Mason's Program present "Canada and International Development: Focus on Africa" Speaker: Joe Clark, Former Prime Minister of Canada 4:00 - 5:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG RSVP: CID Events
Sept 20	CID Undergraduate Open House 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 23	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Do No Harm: Is the Emigration of Health Professionals Bad for Africa?" Speaker: Michael Clemens, Research Fellow, Center for Global Development 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 26	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) Speaker: Michael Walton, Lecturer in International Development 1:00 - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: Robert Mitchell
Sept 27	CID Undergraduate Discussion Group "The Reform of U.S. Foreign Assistance" Speaker: George Moose, Adjunct Professor in International Practice, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University; Career Ambassador, U.S. Foreign Service (retired) 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events
Sept 28	Science, Environment and Development (SED) Seminar "SED Group Orientation" 10:00 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG
Sept 30 - Oct 1	Seventh BREAD Conference on Development Economics At MIT/Harvard Organized by the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) By Invitation Only
Sept 30	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "The YES Campaign: The Situation of Global Youth Employment and the Millennium Development Goals" Speaker: Clayton Peters, Headquarters Manager, Youth Employment Summit (YES) 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, KSG Contact: CID Events

Summer 2005
June 7	Occasional Speaker Series on Research Topics in Sustainable Development "Consumption and Lifestyle Changes: Why They Are Essential for the Sustainability Transition" Speaker: Dr. Fritz Reusswig, Senior Researcher, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Visiting Fellow, Center for International Development, Harvard University 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG
June 9	Commencement Day
June 25 - July 1	BREAD Summer School in Development Economics Organized by the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), in conjunction with the Banff International Research Station Contact: Courtney Umberger

May 2005
May 3	Seminar on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Prosperity "Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Prosperity: What Have We Learned?" Speakers: All Instructors 10:10 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: Robert Stow
May 4	Economic Development Lunch Series "Development as Self-Discovery and Industrial Policy" Speaker: Roland Hodler, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
May 10	Occasional Speaker Series on Research Topics in Sustainable Development "The Environmental Dimension of Human Vulnerability � Results from Europe, Thoughts on Haiti" Speaker: Dagmar Schroeter, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Science, Environment and Development Group 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG
May 11	Economic Development Lunch Series "The Pricing and Marketing Impacts of Counterfeits" Speaker: Yi Qian, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics "Long-Run Effects of Income Shocks" Speaker: Elsa Vila-Artadi, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics 12:30 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
May 12	Occasional Speaker Series on Research Topics in Sustainable Development "'Raise It, Spend It, Prove It�: Learning to Do Development Differently at The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria" Speaker: Bernard Rivers, Executive Director of Aidspan 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG
May 13	Harvard Argentine Society "Debt Restructuring in Argentina After the Largest Default in History" Speaker: Sebastian Palla, Subsecretary of Financing, Argentine Ministry of Economy, and Leonardo Madcur, Secretary of Technical Coordination, Argentine Ministry of Economy 3:00 PM Malkin Penthouse, 4th floor, Littauer Building, KSG Contact: Jimena Zuniga
May 20	Deadline for CID Doctoral Fellows Applications
May 23	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) Speaker: Laura Alfaro, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School "Constructing a New Capitol Control Index" 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: Robert Mitchell
May 26	Deadline for CID Thesis Prize submissions (Senior Undergraduates only)

April 2005
April 4	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) Speaker: Ricardo Hausmann, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development "Applying the Growth Diagnostics Framework" 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: Robert Mitchell
April 5	CANCELLED CID Special Event "The World Health Organization and the Global Campaign Against HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria" Distinguished Speaker: Jack Chow, M.D., Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building, 4th Floor Contact: CID Events
April 5	Seminar on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Prosperity "Carbon Sequestration and the Energy System Transition: An Embryonic Framework" Speaker: Jeff Bielicki, Ph.D. Candidate in Pulic Policy "Cultivating, Harvesting, and Sustaining Human Intellect" Speaker: Jamil Scott, Ph.D. Candidate in Biological and Biomedical Sciences 10:10 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: Robert Stow
April 6	Economic Development Lunch Series "Sharing the Burden of Disease: Gender, the Household Division of Labor and the Health Effects of Indoor Air Pollution" Speaker: Mark Rosenzweig, Mohamed Kamal Professor of Public Policy; Director, Center for International Development 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
April 6	Occasional Speaker Series on Research Topics in Sustainable Development and The KSG Mexico Program "Inequality and Human Development in Mexico" Speaker: Dr. Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, Professor, Instituto Tecnol�gico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Discussant: Sakiko Fuduka-Parr, Research Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at KSG 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Hosted by Professor William Clark Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG
April 7	International Science and Health Network (ISHN) "The Founding of the Kathmandu Medical School, Nepal" Speaker: Cliff Tabin, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School 6:00 PM- 8:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG
April 8	Second-round applications for the Harvard International Development Internship Fund (HIDIF) due no later than 5:00 PM to KSG Career Services
April 8-9	Sixth BREAD Conference on Development Economics Washington, D.C. Organized by the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) Sponsored by the Brookings Institution, the MacArthur Network on the Costs of Inequality, and the Center for Global Development Contact: BREAD
April 8-10	International Development Conference 2005 "Turning the Tide Against Poverty" Speakers Include: Mr. Farooq Kathwari, Chairman, Refugees International; CEO and President, Ethan Allen Dr. Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor, Harvard University Mr. C.K. Prahalad, Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration & Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business, University of Michigan Business School Ambassador Jehangir Karamat, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Kennedy School of Government Contact: idc2005 "at" gmail.com
April 12	Seminar on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Prosperity "In-Use Vehicle Emissions in China" Speaker: Hongyan He Oliver, Energy Technology, Innovation Project (ETIP) Fellow, Belfer Center 10:10 - 11:30 AM BCSIA Library, 3rd floor, Belfer Building, KSG Contact: Robert Stowe
April 13	Economic Development Lunch Series "Migration and Self-Selection from the Federated States of Micronesia" Speaker: Randy Akee, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
April 14	Kazakhstan Project Seminar "When Opportunity Knocks: Overcoming the Curse and Transforming Oil Wealth into Prosperity in Kazakhstan" 2:40 PM - 4:00 PM Land Lecture Hall, 4th floor Belfer Building, KSG
April 14	Occasional Speaker Series on Research Topics in Sustainable Development "Enabling Sustainable Production-Consumption Systems" Speaker: Louis Lebel, Director, Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER), Chiang Mai University Background Document 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Hosted by Professor William Clark Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
April 19	CID/Bhumi Undergraduate Discussion Group Final Dinner and Meet the New Associates 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
April 20	Economic Development Lunch Series "Resistance to Novelty: A Model of Social Learning with Subjective Communication and Self-Selection" Speaker: Gergely Ujhelyi, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
April 21	Seminar on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Prosperity "Knowledge Flows and Cash Flows: Investigating How the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Connects Research and Practice" Speakers: Nicole Szlezak, Ph.D. Candidate in Pulic Policy and Lorrae Van Kerkhoff, Science, Environment, and Development Group Post-doctoral Fellow 10:10 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: Robert Stowe
April 21	International Science and Health Network (ISHN) Brown Bag Lunch "How to be a Scientist and Contribute to Sustainable Development" Speaker: William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development; and head of the Science, Environment and Development Group (SED) at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM DMS Student Lounge (Room 442), Tosteson Medical Education Center, Harvard Medical School Contact: Jason Heindl
April 21	Occasional Speaker Series on Research Topics in Sustainable Development "The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria's Interventions in Sao Tome and Principe: The Gap Between Research and Practice" Speaker: Tony Kiszewski, Instructor, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, HSPH 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Hosted by Professor William Clark Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
April 25	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) Speaker: Philip R. Lane, Professor of International Macroeconomics and Director of the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) "Financial Globalization and the Developing Countries" 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: Robert Mitchell
April 26	Seminar on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Prosperity "Late Standardization: From Catching Up to Forging Ahead" Speaker: Apiwat Ratanawaraha, Science Technology and Globalization Fellow, Belfer Center 10:10 - 11:30 AM BCSIA Library, 3rd floor, Belfer Building, KSG Contact: Robert Stowe
April 27	*CANCELLED* Economic Development Lunch Series "Social Network and Governance Performance: Evidence from Land Consolidation in Vietnam" Speaker: Quac-Anh Do, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
April 29	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "The U.S. Government's Response to the Global AIDS Pandemic" Speaker: Nazanin Samari, Senior Advisor to the Coordinator at U.S. Global AIDS 11:45 - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events

March 2005
March 1	Seminar on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Prosperity "Innovation--The Missing Dimension" Speaker: Richard K. Lester, Professor of Nuclear Engineering, MIT, and founding Director, MIT Industrial Performance Center 10:10 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: Robert Stowe
March 2	Economic Development Lunch Series "Political Structure as a Determinant of Bribes: Evidence from Mexican Firms" Speaker: Emiliano Salinas, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
March 4	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas" Speaker: Carol Grodzins, Vice President of Fellowship at Ashoka 11:45 - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
March 6	Paper submissions for the Sixth BREAD Conference on Development Economics due to BREAD
March 7	CID Undergraduate Associate Applications due no later than 5:00 PM to 408 Rubenstein or melissa_wojciechowski "at" harvard.edu
March 8	Seminar on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Prosperity "Institutional Design Lessons for the Production of National Level Indicators on the State of the Nation's Environment" Speaker: Carolyn Kousky, Fellow in the Science, Environment, and Development Group 10:10 - 11:30 AM BCSIA Library, 3rd floor, Belfer Building, KSG Contact: Robert Stowe
March 8	CID/Bhumi Undergraduate Discussion Group "Living with the Enemy and Possibilities for Peace" Speaker: Daniel Moses, Coordinator of the Delegation Leaders Program at Seeds of Peace 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
March 9	Economic Development Lunch Series "Altruism Without Borders?" Speaker: Anna Breman, Visiting Scholar 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
March 11	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Political Violence in Africa" Speaker: Robert Bates, Eaton Professor of Government, Harvard University 12:15 - 1:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
March 11	First-round applications for the Harvard International Development Internship Fund (HIDIF) due no later than 5:00 PM to KSG Career Services
March 15	Seminar on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Prosperity "Connecting Scientists and Farmers through Participatory Plant Breeding" Speaker: Nina Dudnik, Ph.D. Candidate in Biological and Biomedical Sciences 10:10 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: Robert Stowe
March 15	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "When Farmers Die: The Agrarian Crisis, Farmers Suicides and the Media" Speaker: P. Sainath, Leading Development Journalist and Author 12:00 PM- 1:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
March 15	CID/Bhumi Undergraduate Discussion Group "Serendib's Tsunami Relief Mission in Sri Lanka" Speaker: Tucker McCravy, M.Ed. Candidate in International Education Policy 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
March 16	Economic Development Lunch Series "Weak Intellectual Property Rights and Firm Heterogeneity" Speaker: Stanley Watt, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
March 17	Occasional Speaker Series on Research Topics in Sustainable Development "Coupled Human/Ecological Models: Where Do We Begin?" Speaker: Steve Lansing, Professor, University of Arizona and Research Professor, Santa Fe Institute Background Documents 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Hosted by Professor William Clark Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
March 18	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Putting Economic Ideas to Work: Designing and Evaluating Operational Strategies at the World Bank" Speaker: Robert Chase, Senior Economist and Head of the Social Capital Unit, World Bank 11:45 AM- 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
March 20	Applications for BREAD Summer School in Development Economics due to the Summer School Coordinator, Courtney Umberger
March 22	Seminar on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Prosperity "Re-Presenting Rice: Genomics, Intellectual Property, and Sustainable Development" Speaker: Elta Smith, Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy 10:10 - 11:30 AM BCSIA Library, 3rd floor, Belfer Building, KSG Contact: Robert Stowe
March 22	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Financial Reform in Ethiopia" Speaker: Stephen Peterson, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy 11:45 AM- 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
March 23	Economic Development Lunch Series "Identifying Non-Cooperative Behavior Among Spouses: Gender Disparities in Child Health and Education in Migrant-Sending Households" Speaker: Joyce Chen, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
March 26-April 3	Spring Recess

February 2005
Feb 2	Economic Development Lunch Series 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 4	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "The Port Tangier-Med: From a Global Infrastructure to a Driver of Local Development - The Success Story of the Port and Free Zone Complex on the African Side of the Strait of Gibraltar" Speaker: Said El Hadi, CEO of the Tangier-Med Special Agency 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 4	2005 WorldTeach Summer Internship Applications for undergraduates due no later than 5:00 PM
Feb 5	Voices for Africa Student Conference: "From Ideas to Action" 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM Gutman Conference Center, GSE Contact: Rose Samuel
Feb 7	Lunches on International Economic Policy (LIEP) Speaker: Prof. Duck-Koo Chung, MP of Korea "Financial Mismatches and Social Governance: The Case of Korea" 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: Robert Mitchell
Feb 8	Seminar on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Prosperity "Innovation: Applying Knowledge in Development - A Review of the Report of the United Nations Millennium Project's Task Force on Science, Technology and Innovation" Speaker: Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 10:10 - 11:30 AM BCSIA Library, 3rd floor, Belfer Building, KSG Contact: Robert Stowe
Feb 8	MPP Student Seminar Series "Working with Former Child Soldiers: Voices from the Field" 4:00 - 5:30 PM Starr Auditorium, 3rd floor, Belfer Building, KSG Contact: Mark Canavera
Feb 8	CID/Bhumi Undergraduate Discussion Group "Restoration of Gorongosa National Park: Economic Development, Healthcare, and Biodiversity Conservation in Central Mozambique" Speaker: Greg Carr, Chairman of the Carr Foundation 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 9	Economic Development Lunch Series "Hepatitis B and the Case of the Missing Women" Speaker: Emily Oster, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 11	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Affecting Public Policy for Healthy Change: A Career in Environment and State Governance" Speaker: David Cash, Director of Air Policy in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs 11:45 - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 13-18	2005 International Bridge Builders Conference: From the Grassroots to the Global Arena Contact: Elizabeth Radin
Feb 15	Seminar on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Prosperity "National Commission on Energy Policy: Research Inputs and Development Implications" Speakers: John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Kelly Gallagher, Director, Energy Technology Innovation Project, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Discussant: J�rgen Henningsen, Principal Adviser, Directorate-General Energy & Transport, European Commission 10:10 - 11:30 AM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: Robert Stowe
Feb 16	Economic Development Lunch Series "Contracting with NGOs to Manage Health Services: An Experiment in Cambodia Speaker: David Clingingsmith, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics" 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 18	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar In collaboration with The 2005 Bridge Builders Conference and The African Caucus "Managing Africa�s Development challenges: Supporting life with HIV/AIDS" Speaker: Ketty Opoka, Leader of Meeting Point 11:45 - 1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 22	Seminar on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Prosperity "A Framework for Analysis of Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development" Speaker: William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 10:10 - 11:30 AM BCSIA Library, 3rd floor, Belfer Building, KSG Contact: Robert Stowe
Feb 23	Economic Development Lunch Series "Reciprocity in a Reciprocal Exchange Economy: Evidence from a Slum in Nairobi, Kenya" Speaker: Fiona Gregg, Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy 1:00 - 2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 23	CID/Bhumi Undergraduate Discussion Group "Democracy, Conflict Resolution, and Political Development in Africa" Speaker: Professor Darren Kew, Assistant Professor in Conflict Resolution at UMASS Boston, specializing in Democracy & Conflict in Africa 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Dinner served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact: CID Events
Feb 28	Applications for CID Summer Internship Grants due no later than 12:00 PM to the Office for Career Services (OCS)

2004
December 2004
Dec 1	Economic Development Lunch Series "Thoughts Towards Modeling the Persistent Effects of High-end Migration" Speaker: Mihir Sharma 12:50-2:00 PM Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact CID Events
Dec 3	CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar "Inter-American Development Bank: The Way We Work, The Work We Do - An Informal Meeting with IDB Staff" Speakers: Isabel Hagbrink, Public Information Officer, IADB; and Stephen Doherty, State and Civil Society Programs, IADB 11:45-1:00 PM, Lunch served Perkins Room, 4th floor, Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Bldg), KSG Contact CID Events
Dec 6	The Economic Growth and Development Workshop "Fixing Market Failure or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India" Speaker: Shawn Cole 2:45-4:00 PM Harvard Hall 104
Dec 7	Occasional Speaker Series on Research Topics in Sustainable Development "Scale and Technological Change for Energy Sustainability" Speaker: Tom Wilbanks, Corporate Research Fellow, Oak Rid