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Mexico City runs short on water — a public good that’s ‘increasingly difficult’ to provide

February 27, 2024

Victoria Beard, a professor of city and regional planning and director of the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities, comments the growing threat of water shortages in cities around the world.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Architecture, Art and Planning

India’s COVID-19 surge reflects lack of sanitation, infrastructure

September 8, 2020

Victoria Beard, professor of city and regional planning at Cornell University and expert on how planners need to address urban inequality and poverty, is available for interviews about the long-standing infrastructure problems compounding India’s management of COVID-19.  

Architecture, Art and Planning
International
Health, Nutrition & Medicine

Floundering economies look to IMF, World Bank for meaningful change

April 13, 2020

With the coronavirus pandemic challenging the wellbeing of people and countries around the world, global financial institutions face the tremendous task of coordinating economic policies and offering relief for the most vulnerable countries. Such effort will be on display this week, as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank hold their annual spring meetings. Cornell University experts, including Kaushik Basu, Victoria Beard and Muna Ndulo are available to discuss the gravity of this week’s deliberations as well as their hope for what should be accomplished.

International
Economics and Business
Law School
Arts and Sciences
Architecture, Art and Planning
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

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