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Center for International Security and Cooperation
Center on Food Security and the Environment
Stanford Health Policy
The Europe Center
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
Rural Education Action Program
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies
Center for Innovation in Global Health
Stanford Center at Peking University
Alejandro Toledo, PhD
CDDRL Consulting Professor 2012-13View Alejandro Toledo's bio, list of research, recent publications and events »
September 22nd, 2008
Former president to develop 20-year social agenda for democracy in Latin America
FSI Stanford, CDDRL NewsDr. Alejandro Toledo, former president of Peru, describes his vision as "democracy that delivers." "My colleagues and I who have taken that challenge of public life as a vocation and life commitment," Toledo says, "cannot but feel concerned about the great challenges faced by our continent where half its population lives between poverty and misery and where inequalities and social exclusion are at their highest." 
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July 2nd, 2008
Video: Toledo discusses poverty in Latin America
CDDRL in the news: Link TV on June 30, 2008Alejandro Toledo, former president of Peru and FSI Distinguished Visiting Payne Lecturer, discusses poverty in Latin America on Link TV.
May 30th, 2008
In London, Toledo leads geopolitical debate on future of Latin America
CDDRL NewsLatin America today is split between those who share former President of Peru Alejandro Toledo's positive outlook and those who think that the '21st century socialism' of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez offers the way forward for the region, despite the fact that Chavez's solutions are heavily dependant on the revenues generated by high oil prices. On May 28 Dr Alejandro Toledo discussed the current state of affairs in Latin America with members of the London-based Henry Jackson Society. Read more »
May 18th, 2008
Alejandro Toledo delivers third Payne lecture with call to action
In the third of three Payne Distinguished lectures under the heading of "Can the Poor Afford Democracy? A Presidential Perspective" former president of Peru Alejandro Toledo announced he was moving from theory and analysis to action, and planned to devote the rest of his life to ending poverty and social exclusion in Latin America. Twelve former presidents from Latin America have joined Toledo to develop a social agenda for democracy for the next 20 years and construct a matrix of key indicators to measure progress toward concrete goals. Audio transcript available presentation available
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March 19th, 2008
Former President of Mexico sees positive economic, social growth for Latin America
CDDRL, FSI Stanford NewsAddressing a packed auditorium on March 5, Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, spoke with intensity about Latin America's prospects for both social welfare and economic well-being in the coming century. Mexico, which Goldman Sachs recently projected to be the world's fifth largest economy by 2040, was emblematic of this electrifying future, he said. Fox's lecture was sponsored by FSI as part of the 2008 Robert G. Wesson Lecture Series in International Relations Theory and Practice. 
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