Alper Gençer and Çağrı Yoltar visited Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town between October 11-21, 2018 to gather more information on the South African welfare system in general, and the workings of the Child Support Grant in particular. They had meetings with the leading scholars of social policy and politics in...
Following months of work on building a protest database for Turkey, now the Work Package 2 team, including a dedicated team of annotators, has started to create training data that will be used to train machine learning based systems that will automatically create protest databases for India and China.
We have commenced a joint-discussion on data availability with the World Bank’s ASPIRe Project team through a Skype meeting.
Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük gave a university lecture, titled “Politics of Emerging Welfare Regimes”, at Jacobs University, Bremen, on September 27, 2017.
Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük and Supervisor Researcher Asst. Prof. Burak Gürel made a presentation and introduced the Emerging Welfare Project to Indian Institute of Human Development on January 31, 2017.