Awards and Medals!

Winners of the GDN Conference Awards have been announced. In a ceremony held last night at the impressive Czernin Palace, GDN’s President Gerardo della Paolera, presented the awards to eleven researchers. The winners were:

The Japanese Award for the Most innovative Development Project went to:

• First Prize: Martin Burt for the Financially Self-Sufficient School
• Second Prize: Vishal Talreja for Empowering Vulnerable Children through Life Skills

The Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development went to:

• First Prize: Dayna Zaclicever for her proposed study on the Survival of Uruguayan manufacturing firms in a Trade Openness Process
• Second Prize: Gilberto Libanio for his proposed study on Regional Impacts of the Global Economy Slowdown in Trade Flows: the Case of Brazilian States

On the theme of Globalisation, Regulation and Development:

• First Prize: Marcela Eslava for her study “Trade Reforms and Market Selection: Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Columbia“
• Second Prize: Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati for his study “Did Globalisation benefit Low income African Countries?“

On the theme of International Migration: Crossing Borders, Changing Lives:

• First Prize: Ebeke Christian Hubert for his study “Remittance, Public Health Spending and Foreign aid in the Access to Health Care Services in Developing Countries“
• Second Prize: Asmaa Elbadawy for her paper on Impact of International Migration and Remittances on Child Schooling and Child Work: the Case of Egypt

On the theme of Regional Integration –Convergence Big Time or an Opportunity Wasted?

• First Prize: Mizanur Rahman for his paper on The Impact of Real Exchange Rate Flexibility on East Asian Exports
• Second Prize: Dibyendu Maiti for his paper on Regional Openness, Income Growth and Disparity across Major Indian States during 1980-2004

After the awards the participants enjoyed a Czech dinner and shared their experiences of the conference. Others took the opportunity to tour around the corridors of this truly magnificent venue.

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