Let There Be Light: A Center for Global Development brownbag seminar
February 22, 2012 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Featuring
Rachel Kleinfeld
Co-Founder and CEO
Truman National Security Project
Hosted by
Charles Kenny
Senior Fellow
Center for Global Development
Providing electricity to unlit and unstable parts of the globe is crucial to jump-starting development, improving the environment, and assisting fragile states that ferment many of today's security threats. Rachel Kleinfeld and Drew Sloan's new book, Let There Be Light, shows the failures of centralized electricity to meet these challenges---and describes how distributed, renewable energy such as solar and wind power can work. But, Kleinfeld and Sloan argue, it is not enough to harness the power of the elements. To scale, distributed energy must harness the power of the market. Kleinfeld will present the major challenges that have impeded distributed energy's success, and describe the roles development donors, social entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, the military, and the business world can play to make lighting the developing world a reality.
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Islamic Microfinance Summit: Scalable Business Models for Islamic Microfinance
Monday, January 30, 2012 - 9:00am - Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 5:00pm
Islamic Microfinance Summit: Scalable Business Models for Islamic Microfinance
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Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 10:00am - 11:30am
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Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 10:00am - 11:30am
The Day After: President Saakashvili on Post-Revolutionary Societies and What Comes after the Arab Spring
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 11:00am - 12:30pm
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 11:00am - 12:30pm
The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Development
Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Development
Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 9:00am - 10:00am
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Monday, February 6, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
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Meeting the Challenges of Value Chain Development: A Learning Event
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 8:00am - Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 8:00am - Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 5:00pm
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Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 9:00am - 10:30am
Job Growth in South Asia: A View from the World Bank
Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 9:00am - 10:30am
China, Pakistan and Afghanistan: Security and Trade
Friday, February 10, 2012 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm
China, Pakistan and Afghanistan: Security and Trade
Friday, February 10, 2012 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy ‘Lobby’ and Its Influence Over China’s ‘National Sovereignty’ Policies
Monday, February 13, 2012 - 12:15pm - 1:45pm
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy ‘Lobby’ and Its Influence Over China’s ‘National Sovereignty’ Policies
Monday, February 13, 2012 - 12:15pm - 1:45pm
Campaign 2012: Afghanistan and Pakistan Policy
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 10:00am - 11:30am
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 10:00am - 11:30am
Entrepreneurship and National Security
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Entrepreneurship and National Security
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Extractives, Equity and Conflict: Lessons From Work at Local, National and International Levels
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 9:30am - 11:00am
Extractives, Equity and Conflict: Lessons From Work at Local, National and International Levels
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 9:30am - 11:00am
Women, Peace and Security in Afghanistan: Prospects on the Way Forward
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 10:00am - 11:30am
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Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 10:00am - 11:30am
A Conversation With the New Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the U.S., Ambassador Sherry Rehman
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 10:00am - 11:00am
A Conversation With the New Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the U.S., Ambassador Sherry Rehman
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 10:00am - 11:00am
A Year of Turmoil: Challenges of Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 7:30am - 9:00am
A Year of Turmoil: Challenges of Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 7:30am - 9:00am
U.S. Policy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa”
Monday, February 20, 2012 - 12:30pm
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Monday, February 20, 2012 - 12:30pm
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 12:30pm - 1:45pm
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Let There Be Light: A Center for Global Development brownbag seminar
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
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Friday, February 24, 2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
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Friday, February 24, 2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Community-Driven Approaches to Natural Resource Management: How Conservation is Creating Prosperity and Stability in Rural Namibia
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm
The Asia Foundation Book Launch - Built on Dreams, Grounded in Reality: Economic Policy Reform in the Philippines
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