The Master's in Global Human Development is an innovative, academically rigorous skills-based graduate program designed to produce highly qualified development professionals.
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The event, also co-hosted by the Georgetown Global Social Enterprise Initiative and Agora Partnerships, will be held May 21-23 and will feature 22 companies operating in 12 Latin American countries and 16 different industries. The goal of the event is to build an ecosystem for impact investing in Latin America by creating an intimate, action-oriented environment that celebrates proactive engagement, field leadership, and bold commitments.
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The address highlighted major achievements in global poverty reduction and international development.
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The inaugural cohort of GHD students have been placed in organizations around the world to take on 2-3 month projects related to global health, education, social enterprise, and other topics in international development.
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A SFS Faculty Research Grant was awarded to Professor Lewis to prepare a case study of an innovative and rapidly expanding hospital organization and financing model in Brazil to be used as a teaching tool and for a future publication.
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videoApril 17, 2013
Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, talked to a Georgetown audience about the importance of empowering women and alleviating poverty through microcredit.
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Georgetown University’s Global Health Initiative provided funding for Professor Gillette Hall to undertake a project titled, “Closing the Gap: Understanding the Barriers to Providing Health Equity for Indigenous Children.”
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Professor Steve Radelet's article, “Counting Chickens When They Hatch: Timing and the Effects of Aid on Growth” won this year’s Royal Economic Society Prize. The article, co-authored with Michael Clemens of the Center for Global Development, Rikhil Bhavnani of the University of Wisconsin, and Samuel Bazzi of Boston University addresses the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in relatively poor countries.
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On April 2 World Bank President Jim Yong Kim delivered a speech at Georgetown University in which he spoke about the importance of the MDGs. Professor Marshall writes about the highlights of this speech and contextualizes the MDGs within a framework of justice, faith, and a community of humanity.
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Fellow are working with thirteen social enterprises in a variety of fields, including handicraft marketing, job training programs for youth, sanitation in slums, oral hygiene and dentistry, and educational opportunities in poor communities.
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Entries from the Global Social Enterprise and Development Fellows were all chosen as semi-finalists for the Dell Social Innovation Challenge.
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The 7th edition of the textbook incorporates the latest research and thinking on agriculture, economic growth, technological change and human resources.
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The article analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family planning program that was established in Matlab, Bangladesh, in 1977.
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