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41. Publications & Writing
After September 11: Perspectives from the Social Science (online essays)
Terrorist attacks on and since September 11th have stimulated public soul-searching, military and diplomatic responses, and efforts to reform public policy. Both the attacks and responses to them have raised a host of questions about social organization, basic social institutions…
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Aftermath: A New Global Economic Order?
The global financial crisis revealed deep problems with mainstream economic predictions, as well as the vulnerability of the world's richest countries and the enormous potential of some poorer ones. China, India, Brazil, and other countries are growing faster than Europe or Ameri…
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Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children
…1997 IDRF Fellow Julia Lynch’s book asks why some countries devote the lion’s share of their social policy resources to the elderly, while others have a more balanced repertoire of social spending. Far from being the outcome of demands for welfare spending by powerful age-bas…
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44. Publications & Writing
Agency as a Vocation
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45. Publications & Writing
Aiding Children in AIDS-Afflicted Countries
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46. Publications & Writing
Alex de Waal to Lead NYU Panel on ICC Arrest Warrant for President Bashir
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47. Publications & Writing
An Afghan-American Perspective from the Ground Up
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48. Publications & Writing
An Artist as President of the Islamic Republic of Iran? by Shiva Balaghi
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49. Publications & Writing
An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi’i Lebanon
Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand. 1999 IDRF Fellow Lara Deeb’s eloquent ethnographic portrayal of an Islamic community…
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An Overview of Data Contained in the 2005/06 Ghana Living Standards Survey (Glss 5) on Migration and Remittances
This short, descriptive paper provides an overview of the main findings of the migration and remittances data contained in the nationally-representative, 2005/06 Ghana GLSS 5 Survey (sub-sample). It finds that households receiving internal remittances (from Ghana) and internation…


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