The Medals for Research on Development – as part of the Global Development Network’s Global Development Awards and Medals 2010 – is a competitive grant program. Only completed research papers that demonstrate academic excellence on any one of the themes given below. The central topic of the themes is ‘development finance.’
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
The grant awards include a first prize of US $10,000 and a second prize of US $5,000.
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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