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GDN
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Seventh
Annual Global Development Awards and Medals
Competition
Submissions are now being accepted for
the Global Development Network’s Seventh Annual Awards
and Medals Competition, which carries prizes in cash and
travel of over $300,000. Submissions can be for an
ongoing development project, completed research, or a
new research proposal.
Applications can be
submitted online. More>>
All details about the competition can now be
found online. More »
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GDN
conference |
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The
Seventh Annual Global Development
Conference
'Institutions and Development: At the
Nexus of Global Change', GDN's annual conference was
held in St. Petersburg, Russia from January 19-21, 2006.
The two-day conference examined the crucial role of
institutions in the development process. More »
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Monitoring
And Evaluation |
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Report of
GDN’s latest evaluation available
online
The latest
evaluation of the process and outcomes of GDN's capacity
building activities has been
completed. The final report and survey data are now
available online. More »
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GDN’s
move towards international organization status |
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Sri Lanka
ratifies the GDN Charter
Sri Lanka has become the second country
to ratify the GDN Charter. Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister,
Mangala Samaraweera signed the instrument of
ratification in Colombo in January this year. Sri
Lanka’s support of GDN is a huge boost in our efforts to
attain the status of an international organization. In
ratifying the Charter, Sri Lanka joins our host nation
India, which ratified the Charter late last year.
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Forthcoming
annual conference |
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Eighth
Annual Conference, Beijing, China
GDN’s Board of Directors announce the 8th
Annual Global Development Conference – ‘Shaping a New
Global Reality: The Rise of Asia and its Implications’
will be held in Beijing, China from January 14 – 16,
2007 More »
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Bridging
Research and Policy |
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Bridging
Briefs
The key
analytical results from the GDN's Bridging Research and
Policy project are now available in the form of short
Bridging Briefs. Each Brief contains a concise
analytical summary of a larger country or
sector-specific research study as well practical
recommendations and suggestions. More »
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Latest
GDN Publications |
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Annual
Report
GDN’s 2005
Annual Report provides a comprehensive look at the
organization's activities during the previous year. The
full-text document is now available online. More »
Understanding
Market Reforms Volume I: Philosophy, Politics and
Stakeholders
This
volume attempts to lay groundwork for a political
economy analysis of understanding the different policies
adopted by governments of developing and former
socialist countries in the last quarter of a century to
cope with the move toward more market-oriented
regimes. More »
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New
Online Service |
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GDN
Journal Access Portal Relaunched
GDN has teamed up with Project MUSE to
relaunch the GDN Journal Access Portal, enabling social
science researchers based in developing or transitional
countries to access a full-text online database of more
than 120 well-known social-science journals, free of
charge. More »
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Research
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Researchers |
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Luciana
Diaz FrersProject Coordinator, Centro de
Implementacion de Politicas Publicas para la Equidad y
el Crecimiento / Center for the Implementation of Public
Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC),
Argentina, Argentina Research
interests: fiscal, monetary and
social policy, reforms, financial crisis, historical
perspective, poverty,
governance and international economics &
tradeMore »
Anna
ShalenkoPersonal assistant to Director,
Distance Learning Center, Ukraine, Ukraine Research interests:
institutional models in Distance Learning, cost-benefit
analysis, organisational
isuues in DL, public
servants and top management training in DL
format.More »
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Organizations |
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Funding
Opportunities |
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Onsi
Sawiris Scholarship ProgramTThe OCI
Foundation provides full tuition scholarships for
Egyptian students seeking to pursue their master's
degrees at universities in the United States in fields
of business administration, economics and
engineering.Deadline: June
15, 2006 More »
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Special
Feature |
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Growth
Today, Gone Tomorrow?
What accounts for the volatility of
growth in developing countries? What could be the keys
to unlocking sustained growth? Find out in
GDNet's Special Feature on
Growth. More »
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GDN News |
| Global Issues,
Local Voices |
Sustaining
growth in developing countries
What accounts for the volatility of
growth in developing countries? Why is stable growth
over long periods of time so rare? Issue 4 brings you
opinion pieces from two researchers, one from Brazil and
one from Ghana, who took part in GDN’s multi-country
study Explaining Growth More
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