By Andrea Guzman The Blum Center for Developing Economies is supporting 36 ambitious UC Berkeley’s students to attend the Clinton
By Sybil Lewis As part of a 10-day program on “Leadership in the Digital Economy,” co-sponsored by the National Democratic
By Andrea Guzman In spring 2013 Ashley Tsai, a UC Berkeley Bioengineering and Material Science major and Global Poverty &
Anh-Thi Le joined the Blum Center in September 2013 as a program coordinator for the Development Impact Lab after graduating
By Sybil Lewis When Karen Andrade, a PhD student in the School of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, came to
By Tamara Straus Laura Stachel never meant to be a social innovator. She never imagined working in developing countries. And
An occasional series with Blum Center affiliated faculty By Tamara Straus On January 3, 2014, Edward Miguel, the Oxfam Professor
By Jordan Kellerstrass For most of its history, international development has been an inexact science. Validation of development interventions to
By Sybil Lewis On Dec. 9, Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Undersecretary and Executive Director of UN Women, attended a panel
By Tamara Straus In August 2010, while floods from monsoon rains covered a fifth of Pakistan, Syed Imran Ali, an
By Tamara Straus There are three innovations without which, CellScope—a breakthrough microscopy project of Dan Fletcher’s bioengineering lab at UC
By Sybil Lewis A dozen UC Berkeley graduate students eager to learn about different campus initiatives on international development participated
By Roxanne Rahnama There is a local Malagasy proverb in the southeast Anosy region of Madagascar that goes Ny fianarana
Each fall, students of the Global Poverty & Practice minor of the Blum Center compete to win a cash prize
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TECHCON 2014: UNIVERSITY INNOVATORS TRANSCEND ACADEMIC SILOS TO PRESENT CUTTING-EDGE COLLABORATIONS FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT Young solvers put
By Sean Burns How can a wedding change a village? Sounds like some kind of development riddle, or maybe even
By Andrea Guzman A 2013/2014 UNESCO report found that 250 million children across the globe are not learning basic literacy
By Abhik Pramanik On October 20, the Blum Center for Developing Economies hosted a talk by Alex Thier, head of
