Cornell University is a world leader in research on poverty, inequality and development. Its faculty and graduate students conduct theoretical, empirical and policy oriented research across a wide range of disciplines and geographical locations. This website is a window to that research.
You can access units on campus that have significant research programs on poverty, inequality and development, as well as individual researchers. You can download recent research papers. There is a calendar of conferences, seminars and other events on campus with a development focus. You can also access information on graduate courses at Cornell in this area. Finally, the website provides links to interesting and useful websites outside the Cornell community.
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Conference: Cornell Conference on Medieval Poverty, March 28-30, 2008.
Conference: Cornell Conference on International Development, September 15-16, 2007.
Conference: Infectious Diseases in Poor Countries, Spetmber 8-9, 2007.
Conference: AERC-Cornell Conference on Bottom-Up Interventions and Economic Growth in Africa, May 31 and June 1, 2007
Conference: Cornell Conference on The Ethics of Globalization and Development, September 29-30, 2006.
Conference: Religious and Social Fragmentation and Economic Development in South Asia, October 15-16, 2005.
Conference: The Cornell Conference on Language and Poverty, October 14-16, 2005.
Paper: Ronald J. Herring, "The Genomics Revolution and Development Studies: Science, Politics and Poverty", Introduction to a special issue of Journal of Development Studies, forthcoming.
Conference: Ethics, Globalization and Hunger, November 17-19, 2004
Conference: Cornell/Toronto: Q-Squared in Practice: A Conference on Experiences of Combining Qualitative and Quantiative Methods in Poverty Appraisal, University of Toronto.May 15-16, 2004
Conference: Second Cities in a Global World. May 7-8, 2004
Conference: 75 Years of Development Research. May 7-9, 2004
Paper: Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala, Ravi Kanbur, Nidhi Mirani and Karl Osner (Editors), "Reality and Analysis: Personal and Technical Reflections on the Working Lives of Six Women", April, 2004.
Conference: The Practice of Law and Development: Socio-Legal Approaches. April 18-20, 2004
Conference: Transgenics and the Poor: Science, Regulation and Development Strategy. November 7-8, 2003
Conference: Poverty, Inequality and Development: A Conference in Honor of Erik Thorbecke. October 10-11, 2003
Workshop: Reconciling Rural Poverty Reduction and Resource Conservation: Identifying Relationships and Remedies. May 2 - 3, 2003
Conference: Lusophone Africa: Intersections between the Social Sciences. May 2-3, 2003.
Conference: Globalization, Agricultural Development, and Rural Livelihoods. April 11-12, 2003.
Conference: Frontiers in Social and Economic Mobility. March 27-29, 2003
Conference: Democratic Reform in Africa: Impact on Governance and Poverty Alleviation. October 24, 2002.
Conference: Rethinking Labor Market Informalization: Precarious Jobs, Poverty, and Social Protection. October 18-19, 2002.
Paper by R. Kanbur: "Conceptual Challenges in Poverty and Inequality", April 2002.
Call for Papers: WIDER Project on Spatial Disparities in Human Development, Oxford Conference on Spatial Inequality in Africa. September 21-22, 2002.
Cornell/LSE/WIDER Conference on Spatial Inequality and Development. June 28-30, 2002.
The India Economy Conference. April 19-20, 2002.
Conference: Conceptual
Challenges in Poverty and Inequality. April 16-17, 2002.
Final Program is here.
Seminar: Women and Higher Education in Africa: Engendering Human Capital and Upgrading Human Right to Schooling. March 28-30, 2002.
Conference and Workshop: Moving Targets: Displacement, Impoverishment, and Development. November 9-10, 2001.
Conference: Macroeconomic Stability, Growth and Poverty Reduction in Ghana: Second Workshop--The Research Agenda. October 27, 2001
Proceedings of The Noguchi Workshop: Macroeconomic Stability, Growth and Poverty Reduction in Ghana, A Contribution to the National Economic Forum. Accra, May 10-11, 2001
Cornell/ISPE Conference: Public Finance and Development. September 7-9, 2001.
Paper by Norman Uphoff: "Poverty and Inequality: A Life Chances Perspective".
Paper by Lourdes Beneria: "Shifting the Risk: New Employment Patterns, Informalization, and Women's Work", July 2001.
Conference Proceedings: "Qual-Quant: Qualitative and Quantitative Poverty Appraisal--Complementarities, Tensions and the Way Forward".
Paper by N. Assie-Lumumba: "Educational and Economic Reforms, Gender Equity, and Access to Schooling in Africa".
Book by Milton
J. Esman and Ronald J. Herring:
"Carrots, Sticks, and
Ethnic Conflict. Rethinking Development Assistance", Forthcoming.
Conference on Global Tensions. March 9-10, 2001.
Paper by R.Kanbur: "Economic Policy, Distribution and Poverty: The Nature of Disagreements", January, 2001.
Link to website: The Moral and Social Dimensions of Microeconomic Behavior in Low-Income Communities.
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