Winter 2024

The Sanford School of Public Policy received $1 million from HPS Investment Partners and the Kapnick Foundation to establish the Climate Dialogue & Innovation Initiative: Southeast Asia and the World. Jonathan Stromseth will serve as project lead and DCID will implement the initiative in collaboration with research institutions in Singapore and around the region.

DCID in collaboration with VinUniversity, the Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology, Saïd School of Business (Oxford University) and SC Johnson Business School (Cornell University) hosted the inaugural Open Innovation Conference in Vietnam, which focused on innovating for a green future.

The Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG) held its annual North American conference at Boston University's Center for the Study of Asia. Five SEAREG Fellows presented their research, which spanned various topics, methods and geographies across Southeast Asia. The SEAREG program is based out of DCID.

A delegation from the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) visited Duke as part of the “Hidden No More: Empowering Women Leaders in STEM” program. and learned about the work being done through Duke Bass Connections to promote gender equity in STEM.

Through a Peace Lab, Duke and UNC graduate students drew on their lived experiences to develop solutions for issues related to conflict, violence and injustice. The lab was part of the Introduction to Peace and Conflict Resolution course taught by Shelley Liu. The course is part of the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center core curriculum.

Sebastian James Appointed Fiscal Affairs Advisor to Government of Punjab, India

On an honorary basis and in his personal capacity, the professor of the practice will advise the government regarding financial resource mobilization, reviewing capital and revenue expenditure and its rationalization, augmenting the state’s finances, and restructuring fiscal debt.

Marc Jeuland Delivers Course on Energy Transitions to Empower African Policymakers

Hosted at the University of Cape Town, the program provided policymakers with essential tools to address the complex challenges of sustainable energy transitions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), equipping them to make informed, evidence-based decisions.

Trade re-routing research co-authored by Edmund Malesky cited by NYT

A New York Times article on the potential impact of Trump’s second term on Vietnam's economy cites Malesky's co-authored study on trade re-routing during the U.S.-China trade war.

Synthesizing Theories of Authoritarian Elections: A Game-Free Analysis

In a Comparative Political Studies article, Edmund Malesky, Ündes Wen and Bahar Leventoğlu explore how authoritarian regimes use ostensibly democratic institutions to serve undemocratic purposes.

Gendered demand for environmental health technologies: Evidence of complementarities from stove auctions in India

The study, co-authored by Subhrendu Pattanayak, Marc Jeuland, P.P. Krishnapriya and Jennifer Orgill-Meyer, is published in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.

Economic risk perceptions and willingness to learn about globalization: A field experiment with migrants and other underprivileged groups in Vietnam," 

The research co-authored by Edmund Malesky is published in the American Journal of Political Science.