PEOPLE | Former Fellows | 2002-2003

Alumni of the Project

Nava Ashraf

Economics Department, Harvard University
Research: The impact of corn trade liberalization under NAFTA on rural welfare in Mexico.

Ronald Chen

Harvard Law School, J.D.
Research: Develop an analysis of the moral, political, and psychological concerns insufficiently addressed in prevailing economic analyses especially in relationship to nonmonetary distributive considerations.

David Evans

Economics Department, Harvard University
Research: Engage in an empirical study of families fostering HIV/AIDS orphans in Kenya to examine how intra-household and intra-community inequalities emerge from the response to the epidemic.

Daniel Gingerich

Government Department, Harvard University
Research: Administrative reform in Latin America, bringing cultural and institutional dimensions to the game theoretic analysis of corruption.

Bryan Graham

Economics Department, Harvard University
Research: Develop a framework for estimating the size and nature of social interactions as determinants of child health in Indonesia.

Xiaojiang Hu

Sociology Department, Harvard University
Research: The role of ethnic minority networks in the development of the business sector in Tibet and ethnic inequalities within a comparative and global framework.

Waheed Hussain

Philosophy Department, Harvard University
Research: Develop a conception of freedom as rational self-determination by drawing on and critiquing the work of Nozick and Sen and by developing the institutional arrangements of economic democracy, using representative and direct democracy devices.

Seema Jayachandran

Economics Department, Harvard University
Research: Respond to the dilemma posed when successor regimes face debt incurred by a prior regime under illegitimate or undemocratic circumstances and develop a model for the debt market among sovereign governments with the aim of preventing the emergence of debt taken on illegitimately.

Guanglin Liu

History Department, Harvard University
Research: Examine the economic development of Shanghai in relationship to changes in social structure and civil society between the 12 th and 19 th centuries.

Kala Mulqueeny

Harvard Law School, S.J.D.
Research: Consider transnational regulatory and non-regulatory methods to direct private sector investment in large-scale infrastructure projects (such as power plants, dams, mining, and highways) toward sustainable development, with a focus on South-east Asia.

Hani Sayed

Harvard Law School, S.J.D.
Research: Examine the third world position in international law and the language used by international lawyers to articulate and manage the problem of global inequality.

Sven Spengemann

Harvard Law School, S.J.D.
Research: Analyze the prospects for international governance working through networks (connecting, for example, regulatory agencies across countries) to take account differences in economic development and administrative capacity.