Latin America Initiative | Commentary
Costa Rica’s Search for a New President Erika de la Garza, program director of the Latin America Initiative, discusses the political fragmentation and need for…
February 4, 2014 3342 Results
Aboriginal Populations and Their Neglected Tropical Diseases
Although Aboriginal people make up a small percentage of the world's population, they are disproportionately affected by…
January 30, 2014 
Texas and Medicaid
Baker Institute health policy experts Hagop M. Kantarjian and Vivian Ho explain why Texas, which holds the notorious record…
January 23, 2014 
Building a Transparent Web: Transnational Social Media, Cybersecurity, and Sino-U.S. Trade
A policy report by Aynne Kokas, Baker Institute fellow in Chinese media, that recommends steps to further open media markets…
January 22, 2014 
Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East | Conflict Resolution and U.S. Foreign Policy | Commentary
Humanitarian Crisis and Political Impasse in Syria While much media attention recently has focused on the geopolitical fault lines that connect Syria’s violence to wider…
January 16, 2014 
Ariel Sharon 1928-2014
Edward Djerejian, founding director of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and former U.S. ambassador to…
January 13, 2014 
Deciphering the Hippocratic Oath in the 21st Century
Many contemporary medical ethicists dismiss the centuries-old Hippocratic Oath as outdated because of the enormous…
January 10, 2014 
Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East | Political Economy of the Arab Gulf | Research Paper
The Gulf States and the Rebalancing of Regional and Global Power The Gulf Cooperation Council states have emerged as increasingly visible global actors with diverse geopolitical interests.
January 8, 2014 
Intrajurisdictional Capitalization and the Incidence of the Property Tax
This paper focuses on the intrajurisdictional capitalization effects that underlie what is arguably the most plausible…
January 6, 2014 
The Mining Boom in Latin America: Rents, Development and Democracy
Latin America has witnessed an unprecedented natural resource boom in the last decade. However, the macroeconomic and social…
January 1, 2014