A Worthy Mission: Controlling Corruption in Latin America January 31, 2019
Elections in Latin America are freer and fairer than they used to be, and, with the rare exception, political power in Latin…
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Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East | Center for Energy Studies | Political Economy of the Arab Gulf | Research Paper
Subsidy Reform and Tax Increases in the Rentier Middle East A newly released study from the Project on Middle East Political Science at George Washington University includes a…
January 30, 2019 Roundtable Dialogue — Human Embryo Research: Current Scientific, Ethical and Policy Challenges January 29, 2019
At this Roundtable Dialogue, Kirstin R.W. Matthews, fellow in science and technology policy, discussed the current state of…
How Much of U.S. Health Care Spending Provides Direct Care or Benefit to Patients?
By Morgan N. Fredell, Hagop M. Kantarjian, Ya-Chen Shih, Vivian Ho and Binata Mukherjee
Current U.S. health care spending…
January 29, 2019 
Constructing an Islamic Nation: National Mosque Building as a Form of Nation-building
The author shows that mosque construction in Islamic states increased after 1979, when political elites adopted a strategy…
January 28, 2019 
Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in U.S. Health Care January 23, 2019
Houston, home of the world-renowned Texas Medical Center, draws many of the country’s brightest medical students and…
Human Embryo Research in the U.S.
The papers in this series examine the ethical, policy and scientific issues that arise in the controversial field of human…
January 23, 2019 
Energy Governance in Saudi Arabia: An Assessment of the Kingdom’s Resources, Policies, and Climate Approach
Saudi Arabia’s massive hydrocarbon endowment and ownership of Islamic holy sites have created a unique political economy. In…
January 22, 2019 
The Warnock Report and International Human Embryo Research Policies January 22, 2019
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This report is part of a series examining the ethical…
Short-term and Long-term Distributional Consequences of Prenatal Malnutrition and Stress: Using Ramadan as a Natural Experiment
By tracking the math scores and earnings of adults who were in-utero during Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting, the…
January 19, 2019