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Access to Achievement

Access to Achievement is a collaborative, five-year demonstration project of the Columbia Global Centers | South Asia, and key education stakeholders in two rural districts of India. The project will utilize current scientific evidence and best professional practices to develop, and evaluate a high quality, cost-effective, transferable model of primary education. Selected districts will serve as regional pilots for scaling up improvements.
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After Urbanization

What are the socio-technical systems that associate and differentiate people gathered together in densely populated spaces? Whose interests are represented (politically/symbolically) and what are the...
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Arts, Culture, and Quality of Life in Global Cities

Urban spaces have become a crucible for the transformations of the global era. The Committee on Global Thought’s research on cities focuses on identifying these new formations, describing their...
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Badami

This project for conservation and heritage-based development of the historic town of Badami in Bagalkot District in Karnataka is conceived as a “Demonstration Heritage Project under KUIDFC-NKUSIP”...
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Building a South Asian Public Health Network: A Collaboration of Columbia University's Global Center, Mumbai, India and the Mailman School of Public Health

The proposed project seeks to build on the existing network of Columbia University’s Global Health Center (CUGC) in Mumbai in order to cultivate partnerships between faculty at the Mailman School of...
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Building Human Capital in Developing Countries: An Interdisciplinary Research Program with Adaptive Technologies

We propose an interdisciplinary research program on human capital development in poor countries, to be housed at the Columbia Global Center in Mumbai. This project involves collaborations between...
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Children’s Global Oral Health Initiative: Part One

Part One: Planning Grant As per the World Health Organization (WHO), “the burden of oral disease is growing rapidly in several countries due to transitions in diet, lifestyle and above all, a lack of...
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Collaborations for Developing the Science Base for Improved Air Quality in India

Improved air quality in Indian cities is a primary need for healthy living environments amidst rapid economic development. Currently, air quality in major Indian cities is amongst the worst in the...
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Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty

A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We...
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Global Law in Finance Network (GLawFiN)

Global Law in Finance Network (GLawFiN) Background: GLawFiN is a collaborative research project to explore the legal foundations of our domestic and global financial systems. It is a global network...
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