Research Library

On Jan. 31, 2019, the Baker Institute Latin America Initiative and Mexico Center hosted a conference on corruption control in Latin America. In post-event interviews available here, Mexico Center director Tony Payan and conference experts delve further into the issue.

Farhan Majid, the L.E. and Virginia Simmons Fellow in Health and Technology Policy, gives a TEDx talk on the complex relationship between health and wealth when considering health care expenditures: https://bit.ly/2K9HaXw

The Center for Energy Studies hosted His Excellency Arcandra Tahar, Indonesia's vice minister of energy and mineral resources, for a meeting at the Baker Institute on March 8. The vice minister presented a detailed overview of Indonesia's new oil and gas policy and answered questions from experts from the Baker Institute and industry.

The impact of authoritarianism on the presence of women in the national legislatures across the Middle East — and the legislative behavior and policy priorities of the women once in office — was the subject of a lecture at Brown University by fellow Marwa Shalaby.

Open the PDF below for Edward Egan's presentation on entrepreneurship at the October 12, 2017, Cyber Georgia Conference in Augusta.

In a presentation at the 2016 Biochar Initiative conference, the author described her study, which suggested that significant health costs could be avoided through the use of biochar at high-activity agricultural sites near relatively high-population areas: http://bit.ly/2jYGnGw

In May 2016, Kenneth B. Medlock, senior director of the Center for Energy Studies, presented at the Institute of Energy Economics (IEEJ) in Japan. His corresponding paper, "The Shale Revolution and Its Implications for the World Energy Market," was published in the IEEJ Energy Journal: The 50th Anniversary Special Issue.

This poster presentation by the Science and Technology Policy Program describes stem cell research and policy issues in Qatar.