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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.

May 6, 2016
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"There is no doubt that they are ready for change," said Dan Hellinger during a public lecture at the School of Public Policy at Central European University on May 4. He went on to the note that Cubans are also very eager to hold on to their health care system, their educational system, and the "strong sense of safety and trust among Cubans of all socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds."