Fellowships: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
Kathleen McAfee, Geography: The Global Environment Facility: North-South Tensions and the Challenge of Green Development. The Global Environmental Facility is the world's main multilateral environmental funding source and the implementing agency for the treaty outcomes of the 1992 "earth summit." It has been wracked by struggles among blocs of nations, the World Bank, and UN agencies that hamper effective international environmental policy. These conflicts are linked to a clash of interests and perceptions between "Southern" and Northern states over "global" environmental problems, and tensions between export-oriented, growth-measured development strategies and their ecological consequences. Through archival research, quantification of shifts in resource allocations, semi-structured interviewed, and field studies of five GEF projects, Ms. McAfee will identify the agendas that have shaped the GEF, ascertain how its strategies are changing in response to field experience, scientific input, and pressures from G-7 states and NGOs, and analyze the GEF's "green developmentalism" as an evolving approach that attempts to encompass ecological problems within an economic framework.
Craig Parsons, Political Science: Altered States? National Institutions and the European Union. How is European integration affecting the internal form and functioning of national institutions? Conversely, how do different national institutions mediate the impact of European institutions on their territories? As basic as they seem, these questions have not received much attention in the European Union literature. EU scholarship has been largely polarized into studies of national or supranational political organization, but has rarely focused directly on their interaction. Mr. Parson's dissertation will address this gap in a comparative study of the organization, process, and national institutional impact of EU regional development policy in Britain and France.
Margarethe Winslow, Energy and Resources Group: Environmental Quality, Equity, and Economic Growth. Many economists hold that environmental quality improves with economic growth. Ms. Winslow hypothesizes that economic growth is only incidentally related to certain aspects of environmental quality, and indeed, there is a stronger causal relationship between equity (both political and economic) and environmental quality improvements. She investigates the relationship between environmental quality and equity using two methods: a multi-country statistical study, and case studies of two or more developing countries aimed at elucidating if, how, and why the multi-country results do or do not hold. The statistical work will be based on existing data and will expand upon earlier studies. The country studies will use country monographs, case studies of development projects, and other secondary literature.
Xiaopeng Xu, Economics: Factor Mobility and International Fiscal Policy Coordination. The world economy in general and the European economy in particular is becoming more and more integrated. The goals of Mr. Xu's dissertation project are 1) to study the implications of increased integration, especially increased factor mobility, on national tax systems and their interrelations, and 2) to illustrate the increasing need for international tax policy coordination and cooperation. The research methodology of the project is to build a two-country, two-period tax game model with emphasis on the interactions among savings, investment, and consumption decisions, and international factor mobility, and to test the model empirically.
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