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Princeton - Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term) - Microfinance

The course addresses the development challenges facing financial service providers, funders, and government policy makers seeking to expand access in sustainable ways. It will provide participants with an overview of the field, current controversies, and analytic frameworks and skills for assessing the roles of different stakeholders.
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Princeton - Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term) - Social Security Reforms (Sess I)

This course will review the context for Social Security reforms: the aging crisis, declining trends in mortality and fertility, and changing patterns of labor force participation. We will also review the core purposes of pension systems and design issues such as defined benefit vs. defined contribution and notional defined contribution. Finally, we will explore the policy responses to the current crisis and some country reform cases: UK, Chile and China.
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Princeton - Policy Analysis: Selected Topics (Half-Term) - The Federal Budget

This course will cover how the Federal budget process is supposed to work and how it actually does work. Topics will include: (1) institutions, processes, and definitions; (2) history of budget outcomes; (3) the current state of the Federal budget process; (4) the role of uncertainty in budgeting; (4) the role of politics in budgeting; and (5) the budget's short- and long-term fiscal consequences.
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Princeton - Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term) - State and Local Finance

Examines budgeting and finance at the state and local level of government. Topics include: budget structure and process; decision makers within the political and economic environment; debt, capital planning and bond financing; revenue structures supporting expenditures. Tax policy and associated tradeoffs between tax equity and efficiency and spending and program needs are also examined. Two case studies are utilized---one related to state and local tax policy and one related to budgetary decision-making.
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Princeton - PhD Seminar: Political Analysis for Policy Research

In order to be effective analysts and advocates, public policy researchers require a sophisticated understanding of policy formation and implementation in domestic, foreign, and international settings. This course reviews current models of public policy formation and implementation and their appplication to issues frequently faced by policy researchers.
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Princeton - The Political Economy of Health Systems

This course explores the professed and unspoken goals nations pursue with their health systems and the alternative economic and administrative structures different nations use to pursue those goals. The emphasis in the course will be on the industrialized world, although some time can be allocated later in the course to approaches used in the developing countries, if students in the course desire it.
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Princeton - PhD Seminar: Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity (Half-Term)

Examines the ethical issues arising in the context of scientific research. Evaluates the role and responsibilities of professional researchers in dealing with plagiarism, fraud, conflict over authorial credit, and ownership of data. In addition, it undertakes a broader inquiry into conceptions of professional integrity, and the responsibilities that scientists have to their research subjects, to their students and apprentices, as well as to society at large.
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Princeton - Introduction to the Study of African American Cultural Practices

This course examines the past and present, the doings and the sufferings of Americans of African descent from a multidisciplinary perspective. It highlights the ways in which serious intellectual scrutiny of the agency of black people in the United States help redefine what it means to be American, new world, modern and post modern
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