WATSON INSTITUTE

The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University supports multidisciplinary research, teaching, and public education on international affairs. The Institute promotes the work of students, faculty, visiting scholars, and policy practitioners who analyze and develop initiatives to address contemporary global problems... The Graduate Program in Development (GPD) is an interdisciplinary initiative sponsored by the Watson Institute for International Studies and supported by an IGERT (Integrated Graduate Education Research and Training) grant from the NSF. GPD seeks to promote social science research on processes of social, political and economic transformation in the developing world with a special focus on the persistent problem of inequality. Inequalities of well-being and opportunity represent the most difficult and persistent obstacles to promoting equitable, democratic and sustainable development. As the problems of development and inequality become ever..

Also known as: Africa Initiative

Primary location: Providence United States