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CEU Team at the 2015 Allianz Summer Academy: Changes in EU and Hungarian Asylum Policies Are Needed

September 15, 2015
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The lack of effective responses by the EU deepen the humanitarian crisis that causes huge danger and trauma to people escaping from a clear and immediate risk of persecution in their home countries. This crisis adds one more dimension to the multiple crises Europe has been facing for some time now, and is closely interwoven with human rights protection, which is considered to be one of the EU’s greatest achievements.

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Bodenstein and Kemmerling Analyze the Paradox of Redistribution in International Aid

September 14, 2015
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In a recent article published in World Development, SPP Associate Professors Thilo Bodenstein and Achim Kemmerling take a look at the paradox of redistribution in international aid. Bodenstein and Kemmerling revisit the well-known, and somewhat controversial, paradox of redistribution in rich welfare states: the more you target social policies for the poor, the less you spend on them.

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Fellow Jay Heung Helps Launch the Aleppo Project during His Year at CCNR

September 14, 2015
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As a research fellow at the Center for Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery (CCNR), U.S Foreign Service Officer Jay Heung helped build the foundations of CCNR's Aleppo Project. The project aims to develop concrete recommendations for the eventual reconstruction of Aleppo, Syria, while taking into account the voices of those traditionally disadvantaged during the reconstruction process, such as those of refugees and women. 

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Top Scholars and Practitioners to Join SPP in 2015-16

September 10, 2015
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The George Soros Visiting Chair at the School of Public Policy at CEU was established to celebrate the 80th birthday of George Soros, the founder of CEU and of SPP, and the Honorary Chairman of the CEU Board of Trustees. It is funded by generous donations from his friends and family. The position is awarded to scholars or practitioners who have demonstrated outstanding academic or professional achievement in the academic, professional, journalistic, political, or civic world of public policy.

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CAPTCHA Project on Online Archiving Highlights the Important and Changing Role of Community Media

September 9, 2015
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"Inspiring." "Pioneering." That's how Joost van Beek describes community media in Europe today. Van Beek is a researcher at SPP's Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS). Together with Kate Coyer, they conducted research on behalf of CMDS for the two-year CAPTCHA (Creative Approaches to Living Cultural Archives) project that concluded in August 2015.

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