The Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development – as part of the Global Development Network’s Global Development Awards and Medals 2010 – is a competitive research grant program. Organizations or researchers can submit proposals to carry out research on any one of the three themes listed below. The main topic of all the three themes is ‘development finance’ and all proposals should reflect this concept. The research proposal which holds the best promise of for improving the understanding of the relevant issue will be selected for the grant awards.
The grant awards include a first prize of US $30,000 and a second prize of US $5,000.
Following are the three themes (research proposals can be submitted on any one of these):
Theme 1: External Capital Flows and Financing for Development
Theme 2: Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Sector Development: Another Angle to Look at the MDGs in a post-crisis world?
Theme 3: Innovative Sources of Development Finance
Citizens and permanent residents of developing and transition countries and citizens of developing and transition countries who are temporarily based in a developed country but not for more than five years can apply for this award. All applicants should be less than 45 years old as on 18 October 2010.
The deadline to submit the application for the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development is 18 October 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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