Her main research interests are China's overseas investment and foreign aid, evolution of development thinking, and developmental state building.
"Urban Informality and the Paradoxes of Developmental State Building". In State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: The Rise and Fall of the Developmental State, edited by Miguel Centeno and Agustín Ferraro.
It is not a process, because processes go through developmental stages: building a temple is a process because the temple is not present all at once, but only comes into being through stages that unfold over time.
He was a leading figure in building developmental theory and practice knowledge to enhance the lives of very young children.
Learning for leadership: Developmental strategies for building capacity in our schools.
Genes set up a developmental program for building a brain that proceeds largely automatically, needing only normal experience and a nondeprived environment.
This project also represents a novel developmental approach to building human-like artificial intelligence systems and comprehensive computational models of human cognitive architecture.
