ZEF alumna was awarded KfW Prize at 2012 Conference of the Research Committee on Development Economics and Policy

June 13, 2012.  

Around 120 experts from the economic and social sciences participated in the annual meeting of the Research Committee on Development Economics and Policy of the German Economic Association (VfS) at ZEF on June 22-23. On this occasion the KfW Prize for promoting practice-relevant development research was awarded to, among others, Nadine Reis, ZEF alumna (see interview below).

 

Pictures of the event are on ZEF's facebook site!

 

Nadine Reis received the prize for her doctoral thesis on "Tracing and making the state-policy practice and domestic water supply in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam".

 

You can order or download the doctoral thesis of Nadine Reis at: http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-643-90196-5

 

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Joachim Heidebrecht, Vice President of the Department of Development Research at KfW gives insights in what KfW tries to achieve with this prize and why Nadine Reis has been awarded this year:

 

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