Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
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 UniversityEconomic development
February 14th, 2012
Solar lighting and charging research receives FSI funding
PESD's new research on "Solar Lighting and Phone Charging in East Africa: Understanding Adoption, Business Models, and Development Outcomes" was awarded funding from the Freeman Spogli Institute’s Global Underdevelopment Action Fund. Read more »
September 9th, 2010
Wolak presented at the Guanghua Leadership Institute's City Leader Program
AnnouncementPESD Director Frank Wolak was invited to present at the Guanghua Leadership Institute's City Leader Program held at Stanford. Read more »
July 10th, 2008
Special Issue of the Journal Energy Policy on the Current State of Africa's Energy Systems
PESD Affiliate Mark Howells, along with Joe Aldy and Leo Schrattenholzer, have edited a special issue of the journal Energy Policy on the role of energy in Africa's social and economic development. The issue includes papers that examine an African interaction with the rest of the planet's liquid fuels market, the effect of various drivers on energy and technology transitions within Africa, as well as new quantitative models for projecting aspects of those energy transitions.
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- » Determinants of electricity demand for newly electrified low-income African households
April 6th, 2006
Washington Post publishes Fellow Nadja Victor on Russian Gas
Op-ed: Washington Post on April 6, 2006Russia controls over a quarter of the world's gas reserves -- months ago the Russian energy giant Gazprom forced Ukraine to pay sharply higher prices for natural gas. Last week Gazprom announced it was tripling gas prices in Belarus, a country that is politically close to the Kremlin. 
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March 21st, 2006
Nadejda Victor presents at G8 Conference on Energy Security
By invitation at an international conference on energy security, held in preparation for the G8 session of energy ministers, Nadja Victor presented PESD research on the origins of Russia's natural gas crisis. presentation available
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March 20th, 2006
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs reports on energy
The United Nations has published David Victor's report, "The Effects of Power Sector Reform on Energy Services for the Poor," via their Division for Sustainable Development. The report examines the connections, if any, between the many efforts to introduce market forces in the power sector with the provision of electric services to world's poorest households. Read more »
January 4th, 2006
David G. Victor's "Recovering Sustainable Development" published in Foreign Affairs
Op-ed: Foreign Affairs on January 4, 2006Sustainable development -- the notion that boosting economic growth, protecting natural resources, and ensuring social justice can be complementary goals -- has lost much appeal over the past two decades, the victim of woolly thinking and interest-group politics. The concept can be relevant again, but only if its original purpose -- helping the poor live healthier lives on their own terms -- is restored. Read more »
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