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June 3, 2016
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That was the conclusion of Ricardo Soares de Oliveira during a public lecture at the School of Public Policy at CEU on May 26. Soares de Oliveira, an associate professor at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, explained that the post-war reconstruction of Angola ended with the collapse of oil prices in 2014 and that "the future is uncertain."

May 26, 2016
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"Why do firms based in emerging countries internationalize?" This is the question that Global Challenges Senior Fellow John Luiz sought to answer in a recent paper with Helena Barnard. "Emerging market firms internationalize for many of the same reasons as firms from developed countries," Luiz said during a presentation on May 25. "But they also have other reasons."

May 19, 2016
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With the support of the Open Society Foundations, the School of Public Policy's Global Policy Academy hosted an evaluation workshop of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS) on May 17 in Brussels.

May 11, 2016
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Corina Ajder (MPA '16) recently travelled to Austria and Germany to speak about the situation of garment workers in Eastern Europe producing for western fashion brands. As a researcher for the Dutch NGO Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), she met with workers at over 15 factories in Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine to find out about their working conditions over the past three years.