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The Keough School, in partnership with the Pulte Institute, recently hosted its i-Lab Showcase. The annual event was an opportunity for Master of Global Affairs students to present their summer fieldwork and internships, research and creative activities, conducted in conjunction with partners across the world as part of the i-Lab's Global Partner Experience — a learning-by-doing approach that allows MGA students to work at the front lines of today’s most pressing challenges.

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Gautam's article assesses the extent of COVID-19 pandemic disruptions in Nepal on the availability and access of agricultural inputs and the impact on agricultural production and food security. Read full article.

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The Pulte Institute recently welcomed eight new core affiliated faculty members whose work is distinguished by an emphasis on poverty and inequality, and the social dimensions of environmental issues.

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Rivero and Hare's article argues that the association between street code values and delinquency, substance use, and bullying perpetration in Central American youth is not as direct as previous scholarship suggested. Read the article here.

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Mushtaque R. Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi development worker, researcher, academic, and micro-philanthropist, has joined the Pulte Institute for Global Development and the Eck Institute for Global Health as a visiting scholar.

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The McKenna Center for Human Development, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, received the 2023 Entrepreneurship Practice Award for its Urban Poverty and Business Initiative from the Academy of Management at its annual meeting on August 4-8 in Boston.

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The Pulte Institute, in association with international experts and partners at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, joined forces to establish the inaugural Reimagining Business Excellence program. Hosted by the University's Global Gateway in Jerusalem, the program serves leaders and entrepreneurs who work and care for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

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Tracy Kijewski-Correa, engineering and global affairs professor, became the Pulte Institute's William J. Pulte Director, effective July 1. She replaces Ray Offenheiser, who became senior advisor to Scott Appleby, the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School, and serves as the director of the McKenna Center for Human Development. 

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University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., welcomed 23 of Africa’s brightest emerging leaders to campus on June 26 for a six-week Leadership Institute sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. The Pulte Institute has been a Young African Leaders Initiative partner since 2013.

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The up-and-coming Pamoja ND Africa initiative focused on collaborative, interdisciplinary research and professional connections hosted a two-day conference, “Pamoja Nairobi Partnership Summit,” on May 24 and 25 at Strathmore University School of Business in Nairobi, Kenya.

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The Pulte Institute, in collaboration with the University of Duhok in the Kurdistan region and other partners, hosted a symposium and panel discussion at the Keough School Washington Office in June to discuss art and culture as a healing force.

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Delivered as a part of the Pulte Institute Lecture Series underwritten by the Ford Foundation at the University of Notre Dame Eck Visitors Center on April 25, 2023.
 

What is global inequality? Technically, global inequality is inequality among all citizens of the world. Income inequality is simply considering income after taxes and social transfers over the course of one year.…

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In late March, the United Nations hosted the first conference on water in 46 years. The Pulte Institute for Global Development’s Sustainability and Human Rights Initiative (SHRI) was one of 200 groups invited to present its efforts to combat water insecurity. (Only nine other universities were invited to present.) 
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The international movement toward open markets prompted by the World Trade Organization is under stress. The W.T.O.’s premise was that trade liberalization would benefit all because individual countries could exploit their position of comparative advantage. However, major trading nations are reevaluating how they want to engage global markets and on what terms. As a result, the foundational principles of contemporary capitalism are suddenly in question.
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Nkosana Masuku and Ludmila Mero, members of Notre Dame’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) 2021 class, were recognized at last week’s International Symposium on Climate Change and Governance in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the new startup companies they founded.…

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“To reach universal access to drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene by 2030, the current rates of progress would need to increase fourfold,” the United Nations says. The Keough School’s Sustainability and Human Rights Initiative (SHRI) is working to achieve that goal. 

SHRI will present on its efforts to combat water insecurity and enhance human flourishing at the United Nations Water Conference on March 22-24, 2023 in New York.
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In 2021, the Pulte Institute was selected by the U.S. Department of State for a program facilitated by the U.S. Embassy in Algiers to accelerate the pace of STEM learning in the North African country. The goal was for the Pulte Institute, along with other Notre Dame partners, including the IDEA Center, to collaborate with academic institutions in Algeria to create a Research Hub where researchers, academics, and students from both countries could work together on scientific research more efficiently.…

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