South Asia Events
Book Launch: So Much Aid, So Little Development: Stories from Pakistan
June 14, 2011 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Asia Program
A presentation by former Wilson Center Pakistan Scholar Samia Altaf about her new book, a study of why international assistance to Pakistan has been so ineffective.
Who Watches the Watchdog? The Pakistani Media's Impact on Politics and Society
April 11, 2011 // 11:00am — 12:30pm
Asia Program
A presentation by Wilson Center Pakistan Scholar and journalist Huma Yusuf about Pakistan's independent media.
Living on $2 a Day: A Finance System for the "Bottom Billion"
September 29, 2009 // 12:00pm — 1:15pm
Wilson Center on the Hill
Daryl Collins and Jonathan Morduch share insights from their book about the sophisticated ways by which people living in poverty manage their finances.
Foundation Roundtable: Future Family Planning Strategies
September 22, 2009 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
"Family planning is one of the biggest success stories of development cooperation," says the Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation during a roundtable discussion on the future of family planning and reproductive health.
Book Discussion: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
September 10, 2009 // 2:30pm — 4:00pm
Global Health Initiative
Empowering women and girls will unleash "the greatest unexploited economic resource" and may be our best strategy for fighting poverty, claim co-authors Kristof and WuDunn.
Environmental Stress and Demographic Change: Underlying Conditions and Nepal's Instability
November 01, 2006 // 11:00am — 1:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Bishnu Raj Upreti discusses the ways in which efforts to resolve Nepal's demographic and environmental problems could reduce conflict, alleviate poverty, and provide a pathway to peace.
The Human Dimensions of Environmental Security: Some Insights from South Asia
September 24, 2003 // 12:00am
Environmental Change and Security Program
Adil Najam and Atiq Rahman explore whether poverty is a necessary condition for environmental degradation and resource scarcity to lead to conflict and insecurity.
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