Admissions & Aid Applying to Batten Admissions Blog Posts Tagged with International Development Can Education Be Standardized? Evidence from Kenya Isaac Mbiti and co-authors examine the impact of enrolling in schools that employ a highly-standardized approach to education, using random variation from a large nationwide scholarship program. Read More International Development, Education Childcare: An overlooked response to emergencies Providing childcare in humanitarian emergencies is a win-win strategy for women and children. It’s time to make it a reality for more families. Read More Global Politics & International Relations, Research and Commentary, International Development, UVA Humanitarian Collaborative Rural poverty, climate change, and family migration from Guatemala David Leblang, Director of the Batten School’s Global Policy Center, along with co-authors, assesses the root causes of migration from Guatemala. Read More Global Politics & International Relations, Research and Commentary, International Development, UVA Humanitarian Collaborative, International and Global Affairs Slovak Ambassador Discusses Entrepreneurship Policy in Central Europe The Ambassador’s presentation, “The Slovak Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and the Visegrád Group of Four States,” covered recent efforts by the Slovak Embassy in Washington, DC, as well as the country’s government in Slovakia. Read More Research and Commentary, International Development, Democracy Q&A: Bruce Springsteen Spotlights Batten Professor’s Work at the Border Batten's Lucy Bassett and the Charlottesville-based nonprofit Project Adelante are conducting research at the Matamoros refugee camp near the Texas border – a spot that is featured in one of Springsteen’s songs. Read More International Development, UVA Humanitarian Collaborative, International and Global Affairs Alum in Action: Mimi Wu As the co-founder of Myanmar Recycles, a plastic recycling company cleaning up the dirtiest post-consumer plastic film in Myanmar, Mimi Wu (MPP ‘09) remains committed to inciting positive change in communities around the world. Read More Alum in Action, International Development, Environmental Policy What do you get when you cross a doctor and an impact investor? A reviewer’s perspective on the Humanitarian Grand Challenge Professor Gelsdorf was selected to support the United States Agency for International Development Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), the UK Department for International Development (DFID), and Grand Challenges Canada in advising them on projects to be a part of their multi-million Fund for Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge. This Fund seeks to accelerate solutions that enable life-saving or life-improving assistance to reach the most vulnerable in conflict. Read More International Development Simulation Helps Batten Students Understand Complexities of Migration Two years ago, the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy’s Center for Leadership Simulation and Gaming put students through the paces of a global food security simulation. Last year, the center created a global pandemic simulation. Read More Student Stories, International Development, International and Global Affairs Jeanine Braithwaite Jeanine Braithwaite is a professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Prior to joining the Batten School, she was a senior economist at the World Bank, specializing in social protection policy and poverty analysis. She has also worked at the International Monetary Fund and U.S. Census Bureau, providing technical assistance to the U.S.S.R. and newly-independent former Soviet republics. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, International Development, Workshop Kirsten Gelsdorf Kirsten Gelsdorf is a professor of practice in public policy and Co-Director of the UVA Humanitarian Collaborative in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Gelsdorf has 19 years of experience working in the humanitarian sector, most recently serving as the Chief of the Policy Analysis and Innovation section at the United Nations Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Humanitarian Policy, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, International Development, Workshop, UVA Humanitarian Collaborative, UVA Humanitarian Collaborative Pagination Page 1 Next page ›› Subscribe to International Development Categories Study Abroad (1)Faculty(2) Personal Statement(3) Accelerated MPP(63) Essays(8) Events(14) Tuition and Financial Aid (1)Policy Minor(45) Application(34) BA(69) Curriculum(34) Career Outcomes(8) New Student(19) MPP(40) Batten Ambassadors(30) Student Life(38) Alumni(6) Admissions(52) SE Minor(27) Recommendations(11)