April 2023

Pedro Conceição, director of the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report Office, shared insights from Human Development Report findings during a fireside chat hosted by the Duke Center for International Development and the South-North Scholars. Read more.

Members of Sanford's Latin American and Caribbean student group met with several professionals, including Ichiro Toda MIDP ’98, World Bank; Oscar Farfan MIDP ’05, Inter-American Development Bank; Elsa Chang MIDP ’93, Inter-American Development Bank; and Daniela Tort MIDP ’15, International Monetary Fund. Read more.

The 20th Annual Rotary Peace Center Conference celebrated the Class XX Rotary Peace Fellows' research as well as the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center's 20th anniversary. View conference recording.

Gary Gereffi, professor emeritus of sociology and Duke Center for International Development affiliate faculty member, was presented with an honorary research doctorate degree in economics and management from the University of Padua in Italy. Congratulations, Prof. Gereffi! Read more.

Roy Kelly, professor of the practice of public policy, co-authored “Personal Income Tax Piggybacking,” a report published by the World Bank. Kelly also served as a panelist in the 2023 G20 Infrastructure Working Group meeting workshop, “Financing of Cities of Tomorrow.”

Rachel George, lecturing fellow, presented “Building institutional capacity for evidence and new methods of decision-making” and “Merging Aid and Foreign Policy: Examining the Growth of Global Affairs Megabureaucracies” at International Studies Association annual conference.

Stacey Frederick, senior fellow, authored "Roles of the Business Environment in Global Value Chains," a technical report for the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) Business Environment Working Group.

Ghada Ahmed MIDP'10, founder & CEO of Insurgent Business Analytics and senior fellow at Duke University, co-authored the "The seabob value chain in Guyana" report for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Gary Gereffi, affiliate faculty member, authored "How to Make Global Supply Chains More Resilient," published in Columbia FDI Perspectives, and co-authored "Using the global value chain framework to analyse and tackle global environmental crises," published in Journal of Industrial and Business Economics.

Marc Jeuland, associate professor, co-authored the following:
• "Effect of electricity price reform on households’ electricity consumption in urban Ethiopia," published in Utilities Policy
• "A geospatial approach to understanding clean cooking challenges in sub-Saharan Africa," published in Nature Sustainability
• "Releasing the killer from the kitchen? Ventilation and air pollution from biomass cooking," published in Development Engineering
• "Women who do not migrate: Social interactions and participation in western Nepal," published in World Development
• "The causal effect of income on household energy transition: Evidence from old age pension eligibility in South Africa," published in Energy Economics
• "Current status, prospects, and implications of renewable energy for achieving sustainable development goals in Nepal," published in Sustainable Development
• "A randomized trial of price subsidies for liquefied petroleum cooking gas among low-income households in rural India," published in World Development Perspectives
• "Frameworks, methods and evidence connecting modern domestic energy services and gender empowerment," published in Nature Energy

Edmund Malesky, director of the DCID; Lucy Right, PhD candidate at Duke; and Erik Wibbels, University of Pennsylvania; completed the Solid Waste Accountability Platform (SWAP) research project for the U.S. Agency for International Development Cambodia Mission to address waste management issues in Cambodia. The SWAP project comprised of two main interventions: (1) a Waste Tracker app that allows citizens to report waste service issues on a public-facing website - that government officials and private waste companies can see and respond to in real-time - and (2) block meetings where citizens discuss waste collection issues and brainstorm community actions that might improve service delivery. The project looked to increase communication and accountability between citizens, service providers and government officials, and create bottom-up pressure and accountability in Cambodia’s difficult government environment. Read more.

Last fall, the DCID began hosting a monthly seminar for the DCID community and development-focused researchers across the wider Duke research community. During the seminars, coordinated by Lecturing Fellow Rachel George, scholars present early-stage research projects and ideas, research in progress, and/or recently published work.

The 2022-23 Seminars:

• Climate-related forecasting prediction migration – Kerilyn Schewel, Eddy Malesky 
• Human trafficking, illicit timber and corruption in Mozambique – Maureen Lempke
• The long run impacts of war using the case of Bosnia – Charles Becker, Peter Devine
• The Civilian Cost of Casualty Aversion: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Iraq – Benjamin Krick, Jonathan Petkun, Mara Revkin 
• Drivers of migration and immobility in Zambia – Aneta Seidlová, Eliška Masná

We're pleased to welcome the following people to the DCID:

• Bayu Andalas is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Duke for the spring semester. His research is focused on formulating a climate action plan to move Jakarta Capital City towards net-zero carbon emission in 2050.
• Nicole Filippo joined the DCID in late February as the new communications director.
• Aneta Seidlová & Eliška Masná, are visiting research fellows at Duke from March to April. They are doctoral students in the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development at Charles University in Prague.
• Maryanne Joy LoJacono was born on March 9 at 8:11 p.m., weighing 6 lbs. 9 oz. and measuring 20 inches. Congrats to parents Mollie LoJacono, director of student and academic services for MIDP, and Matt LoJacono, senior public relations manager at Sanford School of Public Policy!

Launch of 2022 PAPI Vietnam Report
April 12, 8:30-11:30 a.m. ICT

Edmund Malesky, director of the DCID, will help launch the Vietnam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) 2022 Report. Malesky and colleagues will discuss the results from the annual PAPI survey, which measures and benchmarks citizens’ experiences and perception on the performance and quality of policy implementation and services in Vietnam. The event will be live-streamed on the PAPI YouTube channel.

Rural Transformations
April 18, 3-4:30 p.m. EDT
June 20, 9-10:30 a.m. EDT
June 30, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. EDT

Hosted by DCID and the Center on Modernity in Transition, this virtual series features conversations with leading thinkers learning from promising advances in sustainable and equitable development taking place in rural contexts. Duke's Program on Climate-Related Migration co-directors Sarah Bermeo and Kerilyn Schewel will co-lead and moderate the first conversation, respectively.

Conference on Climate Change & Migration
April 21, Washington, D.C.

Hosted by Duke’s Program on Climate-Related Migration, the conference aims to bring together researchers, policymakers, sector experts, donors, NGOs, and other stakeholders to address the intersection between climate change and migration.

Online Programs

• Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Programs (M&EDP) - June 12-23
• Behavioral Economics (BE) - July 11-Aug. 4

In-person Programs

• Project Appraisal and Risk Management (PARM) - May 28-June 23
• Tax Analysis and Revenue Forecasting (TARF) - July 2-28
• Fiscal Decentralization and Local Government Financial Management (PFD) - July 30-Aug. 18

Visit our website or email dcidexed@duke.edu for more information.

Bautista Logioco MIDP'04, senior peacebuilding consultant for the U.N., visited Duke to meet with current Master of International Development Policy students, offer them career advice, and share his story. Read more.

Estuardo Pineda MIDP'17, innovation and technology for development officer at UNICEF, reflects on how Duke's Master of International Development Policy degree program built a bridge to his work in Guatemala. Read more.