May 2016 GLF Colloquium

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On May 17-18, GEG held our Global Leaders Fellow Colloquium, which included discussions of papers from 7 GLFs. All agreed that it has been a wonderful year for researchers at Princeton and Oxford. 

Current GLF projects and discussions included:
  • Voice, exit and institutional fragmentation: how emerging powers are trying to change the global monetary order in a post-crisis world - Camila Villard Duran
  • Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns against Gender-Based Violence in Africa - Peace Medie
  • FCFA Exchange Rate Misalignment, Growth and Policy Mix in WAEMU Zone - Kako Nubukpo
  • From the dominance of French banks to the emergence of Pan-African banks in UEMOA: trends, drivers and impacts - Seydou Ouedraogo
  • Small-scale technologies and development - Ali Hasanain
  • The Implications of Labour Clauses in FTAs for Workers’ Rights in Developing Countries: The Case of the TPP - Nghia Trong Pham
  • The Perils of Rentierism: Does Aid have a Rentier Effect? - Nematullah Bizhan   
We met the new GLFs and we discussed their projects for the GLF programme: Dr Biniam Bedasso, Dr Maria Gwynn, Dr Natalya Naqvi, Dr Zheng Chen. We also had news about projects from previous GLFs Tu Anh Vu Thanh and Akachi Odoemene (“Going back: Translating the GLF to Impact at Home”). Tu Anh is a founder of the Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV), the first truly non-profit private university in Vietnam and Akachi is teaching courses at the Department of History and International Relations, Federal University Otuoke.