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Selected Social Sciences Departments and Research Centers
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Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe,
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Essential
Resources
• Massachussets Institute
of Technology - Department of Economics Boston, Massachussets.
Department's distinguished scholars have received numerous
awards, including three Nobel Prizes (Franco Modigliani, Paul
Samuelson, and Robert Solow)
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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
The National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit,
nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a
greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is
committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic
research among public policymakers, business professionals,
and the academic community
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Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
ODI is Britain's leading independent think-tank on international
development and humanitarian issues
• University
of Chicago - Department of Economics
University of Chicago is one of the most important research
centers on rational choice theory. Its scholars have received
numerous awards, including five Nobel Prizes: Gary Becker,
Robert Fogel, Milton Friedman, James Heckman e Robert Lucas
Jr. According to the 1994-98
publication-based ranking promoted by the European Economic
Association this Department is 2nd among the world economic
departments
• University
of Harvard - Department of Economics
Harvard, Massachussets. According to the 1994-98
publication-based ranking promoted by the European Economic
Association this is the best economic department in the world.
Robert Barro, John Kenneth Galbraith e Martin Feldstein are
among its members
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Other
departments and research centers
Africa
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Africa Development Institute
The African Development Institute, Inc., is an independent,
non-partisan policy research institute aimed at initiating
practical solutions to Africa's developmental crisis
Asia
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Australia
• Development
Resource Centre, New Zealand
The Development Resource Centre (DRC) is a specialist information
and education centre in Aotearoa New Zealand focused on development
and global issues. Its web site, Dev-Zone, provides information
services on development and global issues to NGOs, consultants,
universities, community groups, government departments, libraries,
and businesses operating in the field of overseas aid and
development.
• Manaaki
Whenua Land Care Research, New Zealand
The Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research Centre is a New Zealand
based environmental research organisation specialising in
sustainable management of land resources, optimising primary
production, enhancing biodiversity, increasing the resource
efficiency of businesses, and conserving and restoring the
natural assets of communities.
Europe
• Aarhus School of Business - Department of Economics
, Aarhus, Denmark. A relevant part of the research work of
this Department is devoted to the study of social capital.
Its working
papers series contain many useful readings on social capital.
• Agricultural
University of Norway - Centre for International Environment
and Development Studies (Noragric)
Noragric aims to contribute towards equitable development,
sustained well-being of women and men, and sound environmental
practices through collaborative activities that generate and
exchange knowledge and provide education in the area of agricultural
development, livelihood security and natural resource management.
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European Research Center on Migration & Ethnic Relations
ERCOMER is a European research centre with a strong interest
in comparative research in the fields of international migration,
ethnic relations, racism and ethnic conflict within the European
context. It is based at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht
University, the Netherlands
• Institute for Social
and Economic Analyses, Czech Republic
Istituto di ricerca indipendente e senza scopo di lucro con
sede a Praga. Le sue principali aree di ricerca sono l'accumulazione
di capitale sociale e capitale umano, le riforme economiche
e il rafforzamento della competitività durante la transizione
all'economia di mercato.
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is one
of the largest social policy research and development charities
in the UK. The Foundation works in partnership with a large
variety of academic and other institutions to achieve its
aims. It also engages in practical housing and care work through
the Joseph
Rowntree Housing Trust
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Development Economics Research
Group, Leuven, Belgium. The research group is part of
the Center for Economic Studies (CES). Its members' research
interests are mainly concerned with the micro-economic, macro-economic
and political economy analysis of developing and transition
countries
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London School of Economics - Centre for Civil Society (CCS)
Formerly known as Centre for Voluntary Organisation (CVO),
the Centre for Civil Society (CCS) is a leading, international
organisation for research, analysis, debate and learning about
civil society.
CCS research projects are often devoted to topics related
to social capital
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London School of Economics - Centre for the Study of Global
Governance
The Centre is located at the London School of Economics. The
aim of the Centre was both to increase understanding and knowledge
of global problems and to encourage interaction between academics
and policy makers. This website includes the Global
Civil Society Survey, edited by the London School of Economics
and published by Oxford University Press
• London School of
Economics - Department of Economics
London, United Kingdom. According to the 1994-98
publication-based ranking promoted by the European Economic
Association this Department is 2nd among european economic
departments
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Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
ODI is Britain's leading independent think-tank on international
development and humanitarian issues
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Policy Research Centre on Entrepreneurship, enterprises and
innovation
This research consortium involves the Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, the Universiteit Gent, and the Vlerick-Leuven-Gent
Management School
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Rokkan Centre for Social Studies - Università di Bergen
The centre is affiliated to the University of Bergen via the
research company UNIFOB AS. It focuses primarily on welfare,
health and health care services, administration and management,
democracy and municipal structures, and knowledge, leadership
and working life
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Tilburg University, Department of Economics
According to the 1994-98
publication-based ranking promoted by the European Economic
Association this is the best European Department
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Department of Economics and Business,
Barcelona, Spain. According to
the 1994-98
publication-based ranking promoted by the European Economic
Association this is 12th among European Department. It hosts
a graduate program of excellence, including a PhD in economics
and in business, a MSc in economics and in management, and
Advanced Master in economics and in management, an MBA program,
and a new MSc in Finance
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University of Bradford - Bradford Centre for International
Development
Bradford Centre for International Development's (BCID) is
one of the UK's leading university-based centres for development
studies. Its library provides useful online resources on development
studies
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University of Exeter - School of Historical, Political and
Sociological Studies, Exeter, UK
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University of Groningen - Groningen Growth and Development
Center
The Groningen Growth and Development
Centre is a research group of economists and economic historians
at the Economics Department of the University of Groningen.
• University
of Manchester - Institute for Development Policy and Management
The Institute for Development Policy and Management of the
University of Manchester is the UK’s largest University-based
International Development Studies department. Its objective
is to promote social and economic development, particularly
within lower-income countries and for disadvantaged groups,
by enhancing the capabilities of individuals and organisations
through education, training, consultancy, research and policy
analysis.
• University
of Rome Tor Vergata
Centre for International Studies on Economic Growth (CEIS)
CEIS, created in 1987, is part of the Faculty of Economics
of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". Its aim
is to promote advanced training and high-quality research
in economics
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University of Sheffield - Political Economy Research Centre
PERC is an interdisciplinary research
centre which focuses on policy problems raised by the current
transformation of the world economy
• University of
Sussex - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
IDS is an internationally-renowned centre for research and
teaching on development, established in 1966
• University
of Turin - EBLA Center, International Center for Research
on the Economics of Culture, Institutions, and Creativity
The acronym EBLA (Economia dei Beni culturali, della Legge
e delle Attivita' creative) has been chosen to honor the ancient
Syrian city of Ebla. Ebla Center promotes the
production and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the
field of Cultural Economics, Economic Theory of Institutions
and the Creative Economy
Latin
America
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Universidad de los Andes - Departamento de Ciencia Politica
The Political Science Department, of the University of los
Andes was founded in 1968, and since then one of the most
important of its goals has been the promotion and strengthening
of democracy in Colombia and Latin America
North
America
• Boston University
- Department of Economics
According to the publications-based ranking of U.S. economics
departments, this Department is seventh among U.S. departments.
Strengths in the department include development economics,
game theory, health economics, and industrial organization
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Brown University - Department of Economics
Providence, Rhode Island. According to the 1994-98
publication-based ranking promoted by the European Economic
Association this Department is 24th among the world economic
departments
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Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) was established
to promote democratic debate on the most important economic
and social issues that affect people's lives
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Center for International Development (CID)
This is Harvard’s primary center
for research on sustainable international development. CID
has been established with one overriding conceptual notion:
the need for cross-disciplinary approaches to the challenges
of sustainable development
• Columbia
University - Department of Economics
New York, NY. According to the 1994-98
publication-based ranking promoted by the European Economic
Association this Department is 12th among the world economic
departments. Members of this Department have won Nobel Prizes,
have served top government positions, and produced groundbreaking
work in the field of economics
• Cornell
University - Department of Economics
Ithaca, NY. According to the 1994-98
publication-based ranking promoted by the European Economic
Association this Department is 15th among the world economic
departments
• George Mason University
- Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science
The Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES) at
George Mason University is a research center and laboratory
specializing in experimental economics. One member of the
faculty, Vernon Smith, shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics
with Daniel Kahneman
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Johns Hopkins University - Centre for Civil Society Studies
The Centre for Civil Society of the Johns
Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies seeks to encourage the
development and effective operation of nonprofit, philanthropic,
or "civil society" organizations. The Center carries
out its work through a combination of research, training,
and information-sharing both in the United States and throughout
the world
• Massachussets Institute
of Technology - Department of Economics Boston, Massachussets.
Department's distinguished scholars have received numerous
awards, including three Nobel Prizes (Franco Modigliani, Paul
Samuelson, and Robert Solow)
•
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
The National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit,
nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a
greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is
committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic
research among public policymakers, business professionals,
and the academic community
• New York University
- Department of Economics
New York, NY. According to the 1994-98
publication-based ranking promoted by the European Economic
Association this Department is 10th among the world economic
departments
• Northwestern University
- Department of Economics
Evanston, Illnois. According to the 1994-98
publication-based ranking promoted by the European Economic
Association this Department is 4th among the world economic
departments
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Northwestern University - Institute for Policy Research,
Evanston, Illinois. The Institute for Policy Research is an
interdisciplinary public policy research institute founded
in 1968 at Northwestern University
• Princeton
University - Economics Department
Princeton, New Jersey. According to the 1994-98
publication-based ranking promoted by the European Economic
Association this Department is 7th among the world economic
departments. Avinash Dixit, Daniel Kahneman and Paul Krugman
are among its members
• Princeton
University - Research Program in Development Studies
The RPDS conducts research in economics and related fields
at both a theoretical and empirical level. Its work is funded
in part by the National Institutes of Health, the World Bank,
and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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Stanford University - Department of Sociology
Mark Granovetter is the chair of this Department. He is considered
one of the most important authors in the social capital literature
• Stanford University
- Economics Department
Stanford, California. According to the 1994-98
publication-based ranking promoted by the European Economic
Association this Department is 8th among the world economic
departments
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University of California at Berkeley - Economics Department
According to the 1994-98
publication-based ranking promoted by the European Economic
Association this Department is 8th among the world economic
departments. George Akerlof and Gerard Debreu are among its
members
• University
of Chicago - Department of Economics
University of Chicago is one of the most important research
centers on rational choice theory. Its scholars have received
numerous awards, including five Nobel Prizes: Gary Becker,
Robert Fogel, Milton Friedman, James Heckman e Robert Lucas
Jr. According to the 1994-98
publication-based ranking promoted by the European Economic
Association this Department is 2nd among the world economic
departments.
• University
of Chicago - Department of Sociology
The Department was founded in 1892 on the appointment of Albion
Small as Head Professor of Sociology. Here James Coleman defined
his concept of social capital and made a great contribution
to the development of rational choice sociology
• University
of Harvard - Department of Economics
Harvard, Massachussets. According to the 1994-98
publication-based ranking promoted by the European Economic
Association this is the best economic department in the world.
Robert Barro, John Kenneth Galbraith e Martin Feldstein are
among its members
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University of Harvard - The Saguaro Seminars, developing strategies
to increase community engagement
The Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement
in America is an ongoing initiative of Professor Robert D.
Putnam at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University. The project focuses on expanding what we know
about our levels of trust and community engagement and on
developing strategies and efforts to increase this engagement
• University of
Pensylvania - Department of Economics
The Economics Department, located in the University of Pennsylvania's
School of Arts and Sciences, is ranked among the top ten in
the U.S
• William Davidson
Institute at the University of Michigan
The William Davidson Institute is a non-profit, independent,
research and educational institute dedicated to developing
and disseminating expertise on issues affecting firms in transition
economies
• Yale University
- Department of Economics
New Haven, CT. According to the 1994-98
publication-based ranking promoted by the European Economic
Association this Department is 6th among the world economic
departments
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