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Three Decades of Reform and Opening: Where Is China Headed? Economics and Economic Decision Making
An international group of scholars addresses the future of China's politics, religion, law, economics, energy, health care, and environment. The 14 panelists examine China's evolving policies to predict where the country is headed. Each scholar [...]presents a paper, which will be collected and published in a book in 2009.
Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on December 8, 2008.
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Three Decades of Reform and Opening: Where Is China Headed? Systemic Constraints
An international group of scholars addresses the future of China's politics, religion, law, economics, energy, health care, and environment. The 14 panelists examine China's evolving policies to predict where the country is headed. Each scholar [...]presents a paper, which will be collected and published in a book in 2009.
Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on December 8, 2008.
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Microfinance for Food and Development
Pablo Suarez (GRS'05), a research fellow at the Boston University Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Ann Helwege, an adjunct professor in the College of Arts and Sciences international relations department, and Marjorie Victor, [...]senior policy advisor for Oxfam America's Private Sector Team, discuss the global problems revolving around poverty and hunger. They talk about methods, such as microfinance, to reduce the amount of global poverty and undernourishment, particularly in poor rural farmers.
Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on January 21, 2009.
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Cooperation and Collective Behavior: From Bacteria to the Global Commons
Simon A. Levin, George M. Moffett Professor of Biology and director of the Center for BioComplexity at Princeton University, delivers the first of his two 2008 Pardee Distinguished Lectures, on the role group behaviors play in nature - and how such [...]cooperation can benefit human societies on a global scale.
Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future on October 27, 2008.
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Ecosystems and Socioeconomic Systems as Complex Adaptive Systems
Simon A. Levin, George M. Moffett Professor of Biology and director of the Center for BioComplexity at Princeton University, delivers the second of his two 2008 Pardee Distinguished Lectures on how we can apply the natural world's lessons in [...]sustainability to our own increasingly unstable world.
Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on October 29, 2008.
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Always Promising: The Future of Latin America
Boston University experts on Latin America take on the region's continued inability to meet its "always promising" potential, examining the issue in terms of economics, institutional reform, public health, and environmental protection.
Hosted by [...]Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Boston University Latin American Studies Program on November 19, 2008.
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Food Security
As part of the Future Challenges series, a panel of international development experts, including Hans Hoogeveen, director general for the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Nature, and Food Quality, discusses the obstacles to meeting the world's [...]food and water needs.
Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University on October 9, 2008.
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Future Challenges: Technology and Development
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future seminar series Future Challenges presents a discussion on Technology and Development. Three experts from three different fields address the question, "In terms of poverty, what [...]does technology do or what can it do to start addressing great poverty challenges?"
Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future on November 3, 2008.
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Future Challenges: Trade and Development
This panel discussion, part of the Future Challenges seminar series of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, features Tariq Banuri of the Stockholm Environment Institute, BU School of Management Professor Sushil [...]Vachani, and BU School of Law Associate Professor Kevin Outterson, speaking on a variety of interdisciplinary issues related to global trade and development.
Hosted by Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future on April 7, 2008.
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