On Wednesday, February 11, the Buffett Institute and International Program Development (IPD) co-sponsored a discussion led by Rebeca Grynspan on careers in international development. Rebeca Grynspan is a Costa Rican economist and was formerly a UN under-secretary-general, and the associate administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). She also previously served as the director
Tag: #Millennium Development Goals
by Amee Amin – Anthropology, Global Health Studies, WCAS 2014 A few weeks back I attended MIT’s Grassroots Initiatives for Global Health Conference, and I was very grateful to share some lessons on global health advocacy as a speaker during their break-out sessions. The conference brought together some amazing thought leaders in this field right
The Millennium Development Goals definitely sound good. There are few things as inspiring as a global pledge to halve world poverty or universalize primary education, but unfortunately development progress is not measured by the content of our promises. It is measured by the content of our deliverables and, equally important yet much less discussed, how