[gdnews] Research in Focus Newsletter - Issue #32, August 2006
August 14, 2006.
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Issue # 32 , August 2006
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CONTENTS
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*** KNOWLEDGE BASE HIGHLIGHTS
1-FEATURED RESEARCH
* Private returns to higher education in Nigeria
* Banking and financial matters on Croatia’s road to the European Union
* Trade liberalization and growth of less developed countries
2-FEATURED RESEARCHERS
* Charles Adwan, Executive Director, The Lebanese Transparency Association
(LTA), Lebanon, Lebanon
* Asif Shehzad, President, The Volunteers Organization, Pakistan
* Gloria Momoh, Researcher, Human Development Konsult, Nigeria
3-FEATURED ORGANIZATIONS
* Gender Information and Policy Centre (GIPC), Belarus
* International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN), Brazil
* Jordan National Competitiveness Team (JNCT), Jordan
4-FUNDING NEWS
* Fellowships at the Wilson Center 2007-2008
* The Bentley Cropping Systems Fellowship, IDRC
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1-Featured Research
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>>>> Private returns to higher education in Nigeria
What is the nature of returns to higher education in Nigeria?
by Okuwa, O. for African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), 2004
>>>> Banking and financial matters on Croatia’s road to the European Union
Behavior and structure of financial service sector in Croatia
by Sonje, V. for Institute of Public Finance (IPF), Croatia, 2003
>>>> Trade liberalisation and growth of less developed countries
Can openness promote growth in the long-term?
by Sarkar, P. for Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, 2005
****You can find 1000 more documents on the Knowledge Base
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2-Featured Researchers
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>>>> Charles Adwan
Executive Director, The Lebanese Transparency Association (LTA), Lebanon,
Lebanon
Research interests: governance, transparency, democratization,
institutional reform and development, civil society, elections, youth
issues, fighting corruption and policy formulation.
>>>> Asif Shehzad
President, The Volunteers Organization, Pakistan
Research interests: NGOs/CBOs and social development (education,
reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, human institutional development and adult
literacy).
>>>> Gloria Momoh
Researcher, Human Development Konsult, Nigeria
Research interest: human development, social science, health and
nutrition,environmental sustainability, refugee protection, reproductive
health and information science.
****You can find 1000 more researchers profiles on the Knowledge Base
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3-Selected Organizations
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>>>> Gender Information and Policy Centre (GIPC), Belarus
Organization promoting the position and interests of women in all spheres
of life
>>>> International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN), Brazil
Worldwide network of specialists analysing the gendered impacts of trade
>>>> Jordan National Competitiveness Team (JNCT), Jordan
A research oriented unit building the competitive advantage of Jordan’s
economy
****You can find 1000 more organizational profiles on the Knowledge Base
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4-Funding Opportunities
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>>>> Fellowships at the Wilson Center 2007-2008
The Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually to
individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the
social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues.
Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or
provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illumine policy issues
of contemporary importance.
Deadline: October 2, 2006
>>>>The Bentley Cropping Systems Fellowship, IDRC
The Bentley Cropping Systems Fellowship provides assistance to Canadian
and developing country graduate students with a university degree in
Agriculture, Forestry or Biology, who wish to undertake post-graduate,
applied on-farm research with cooperating farmers in a developing country.
Deadline: October 1, 2006
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