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World Bank’s Andras Horvai delivers a public lecture on development at SPP

March 13, 2019
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World Bank’s Andras Horvai delivers a public lecture on development at SPP

Bangladeshis using small solar panels to charge cellphones, the Human Capital Index, global value chains, a platform app for tractor-sharing, the elephant curve of economic growth and quality of education in Brasil. These and many more development topics were addressed by World Bank’s Country Director András Horvai in his public lecture on Wednesday March 6, 2019, at CEU’s School of Public Policy.

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SPP Alumnus Alhassan Bonzali wins Future Awards Africa

February 12, 2019
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Previously known as The Future Awards, they are a set of awards given by The Future Project (TFP), a social enterprise communications firm affiliated to Red Africa. The awards celebrate young people between the ages of 18 and 31, who have made outstanding achievement in the year under consideration. Forbes has described the awards as "Nigeria’s most important awards for outstanding young Nigerians".

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The impact of coalition parties on policy output – evidence from Germany

February 12, 2019
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In a recent publication, Evelyne Hübscher examines how parties' ideological positions translate into cabinet policy positions on the one hand, and how the relative impact of parties on policy vary over the the legislative term, on the other. Both are crucial for our understanding of coalition politics and representative democracy.

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SPP head Kahanec at APSIA: Solidarity the number one lesson

January 28, 2019
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At the annual Deans and Directors Meeting of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) on January 11, 2019, in Toronto SPP Head Martin Kahanec discussed internationalization amid growing nationalism in a panel with with deans Enrico Letta (Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs), Judith Kelley (Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy), and Sunghan Kim (Korea University Graduate School of International Studies). 

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EPL affects immigrant and native self-employment differently, SPP researchers show

January 17, 2019
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In a recent study published by the International Journal of Manpower SPP's Head Martin Kahanec and recent SPP doctoral graduate Magdalena Ulceluse (now at the University of Groningen) show how the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on self-employment differs between natives and immigrants.

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