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Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue

Parfait Eloundou

Professor, Global Development

Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue is a professor of global development in CALS. His research agenda broadly addresses the interrelationships between population, social change, and sustainable development. Under this general theme, his current projects study the effects of contemporary demographic changes on global inequality, education, youth employment, health, food security and internal conflicts.

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  • Faculty
  • IAD Core Faculty

Contact

Phone: 607-255-3189

Rebecca Nelson

Rebecca Nelson

Professor, Integrative Plant Science

My interests and objectives pertain to plant pathology, plant breeding and international agriculture. I serve as Scientific Director for The McKnight Foundation's Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP), a competitive grants program that funds agricultural research in developing countries.

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Role

  • Faculty
  • LACS Faculty Associate

Contact

Phone: 607-254-7475

Steven Kyle

Steve Kyle

Associate Professor, Applied Economics and Management

Steven Kyle is an associate professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. He works in the areas of macroeconomic policy in the United States and in low-income countries. His recent work includes studies of the economies of Portuguese-speaking African countries, the outlook for the U.S. economy, and issues in the management of transition economies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

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  • Faculty
  • IAD Core Faculty
    • LACS Faculty Associate

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Rachel Bezner Kerr

Rachel Bezner Kerr

Director, Institute for African Development

Rachel Bezner Kerr is a professor of global development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her research interests converge on the broad themes of sustainable agriculture, food security, health, nutrition, and social inequalities.

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  • Faculty
  • IAD Core Faculty
    • IAD Director
      • IAD Advisory Council
        • Einaudi Faculty Leadership

Contact

Phone: 607-255-3213

Sandra Greene

Sandra Greene

Professor, African History

Sandra Greene's research interests have ranged widely over the past 40 years, from the study of gender and ethnic relations in West Africa to the role that religious beliefs, warfare, and the experience of slavery have played in the lives of individuals and communities in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ghana. Most recently, she has focused on constructing the biographies of both ordinary and extraordinary women and men from southeastern Ghana.

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  • Faculty
  • IAD Core Faculty
    • IAD Advisory Council

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Phone: 607-255-6682

Michael Latham Travel Grant

Application Timeframe: Fall
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Details

The Michael C. Latham Travel Award provides Cornell graduate students enrolled in a development-related field with travel support for conferences within the continental United States. These grants help cover expenses related to conference participation (travel, lodging, conference fees, etc.). Topics should be relevant to African development.

The award is named for Michael C. Latham, MD, who was professor emeritus, graduate school professor of nutritional sciences, and director of the international nutrition program at Cornell.

Eligibility

Master's and PhD students enrolled at Cornell who have been invited to present papers at professional conferences.

Amount

Awards are made on a case-by-case basis with a rolling deadline. The maximum amount awarded is $500.

How to Apply

For more information or to apply, send us an email with the particulars of the conference you wish to attend.  

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Funding Type

  • Travel Grant

Role

  • Student

Program

When Courts Do Politics: Public Interest Law and Litigation in East Africa

Courts do Politics

Author: J. Oloka-Onyango

Using the phenomenon of public interest litigation (PIL) as the primary focus of analysis, this book explores the manner in which the judicial branch of government in the three East African states of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda has engaged with questions traditionally off-limits to adjudication and court-based resolution.

Book

78.00

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Type

  • Book

  • IAD/CSP Book Series

Publication Details

Publication Year: 2017

ISBN: 978-1-4438-9122-6

Financing Innovation and Sustainable Development in Africa

Financing

Author: Various

By Our Faculty

Using multifaceted and multidisciplinary analytical approaches, this publication considers the role of the banking system, the stock market, credit access, external aid, and sovereign wealth funds in the evolving development finance architecture.

Book

92.00

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Program

Type

  • Book

  • IAD/CSP Book Series

Publication Details

Publication Year: 2018

ISBN: 978-1-5275-0556-8

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