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The Brown Summer Institute on Development and Inequality will bring together a group of young scholars, mainly from the Global South, for a two-week workshop. The workshop will focus on sharing knowledge about cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on inequality in developing countries and about methodologies for studying inequality. Emphasis will be placed on the differences in the definitions of inequality (and therefore need for distinct methods and approaches) across regions of the Global South. Instructors involved in the institute will be a mix of Brown faculty members, colleagues from the Global South, and some others from the United States and Europe.

Mornings will generally consist of methodological sessions to introduce and critique the main methodological approaches that are being used to study inequality. These will include, among others, surveys, geographic information systems (GIS), ethnography, and small-N comparative techniques. Afternoons will focus on particular topics, such as racial inequality, gender inequality, and ethnic inequality as they affect development, as well as the way inequality is affected by such processes as human capital formation, access to finance, and political participation. The afternoon sessions will be a combination of presentations by senior researchers and small discussion groups to delve more deeply into the topics. Two days will be set aside at the end of the workshop for presentations by junior participants of their own work related to inequality and development.

One of the main goals of the workshop - both in the formal sessions and in informal discussions - is to facilitate interaction by young scholars and more senior researchers from different parts of the developing world. We believe that such interaction can stimulate innovative comparative research that will make major contributions to both academic literature and policy making in the future.

Convening Faculty:

Barbara Stallings
William R. Rhodes Research Professor

Areas of Interest: Economic reform and development in Latin America and East Asia; finance for development; development strategy; international political economy.
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Richard Snyder
Professor of Political Science

Areas of Interest: Effects of "lootable wealth" on political order, the responsiveness of democratic regimes to marginalized citizens in Latin America, and how dependence on foreign funding affects the social sciences in poor countries.
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Patrick Heller
Associate Professor of Sociology

Paul Dupee Faculty Fellow

Areas of Interest: Development and comparative political economy, globalization, democratization and civil society with a focus on South Asia and Southern Africa.
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