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		<title>GDNet reaches out to researchers</title>
		<link>http://gdnetblog.org/2012/02/23/gdnet-reaches-out-to-researchers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Researchers; regional windows; research; GDNet; researcher profiles; South; knowledge hub]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Maya Madkour &#8211; GDNet GDNet is now reaching out to its researchers, letting them know their work has been featured on a number of its regional windows. Part of a strategic decision to cultivate long-term partnerships with its users, GDNet understands the importance of putting a name, and face, to the organization. GDNet staff [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1625&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Understanding and Avoiding the Oil Curse in the Arab World”, why this topic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the ERF Conference on &#8220;Understanding and Avoiding the Oil Curse in the Arab World&#8221;, I had the opportunity to interview Ahmed Galal, Managing Director of the Economic Research Forum about the importance of the topic to the region and the role of ERF in producing knowledge about the important issues of natural resources and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1618&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Understanding and Avoiding the Oil Curse in the Arab World&#8221; was the theme for the ERF &amp; AFESD Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organized jointly by the Economic Research Forum and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the conference “Understanding and Avoiding the Oil Curse in the Arab World” was held in Kuwait on January 15-16, 2012 and convened around 100 regional and international researchers. Eleven countries of the twenty-two members of the League of the Arab [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1614&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some findings on the investment climate and business environment in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, I am sharing with you a couple of video interviews I made in Kampala, Uganda at the GDNet-TrustAfrica Policy Workshop held on June 7-8, 2011. Francis Kemausuor, Energy Centre at the Kwameh Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, presented the findings and recommendations from his paper on “Jatropha biofuels in Ghana [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1601&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take away lessons from the GDNet-TrustAfrica Workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been quite a while since I posted the last blog from the GDNet-trustAfrica Policy Workshop held in Kampala, Uganda, on June 7-8, 2011. During the workshop, I have had the opportunity to interview some of the participants about the so-called “take away lessons” from the workshop. I thought of making a blog out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1595&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Justine Nannyonjo discusses communicating research at the Bank of Uganda</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog written and posted by Betty Allen on Research to Action I recently co-facilitated a Policy Brief Writing workshop for the Global Development Network (GDNet) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) in Nairobi, Kenya. This workshop brought together a specific group of researchers who have produced research papers for the AERC “ICT and Economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1590&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Accessibility is Key: A journalist’s perspective on communicating research</title>
		<link>http://gdnetblog.org/2012/01/04/accessibility-is-key-a-journalists-perspective-on-communicating-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog written and posted by Betty Allen on Research to Action There have been a number of posts on Research to Action about researchers and journalists working together to communicate development research. Practical tips on how to target Journalists with your research through Twitter looks at the ways you can utilise social media’s ever-expanding reach [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1580&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GDNet &amp; AERC: A fruitful collaboration?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“AERC has from the beginning believed very strongly that research is not done for its own sake. Research is done in order to inform the policymaking process” stated Prof. William Lyakurwa, AERC Executive Director. However, to inform the policymaking process it is essential to make research available to policymakers in a language that they can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1568&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A glimpse on the key challenges faced by researchers in communicating with policymakers</title>
		<link>http://gdnetblog.org/2011/12/22/a-glimpse-on-the-key-challenges-faced-by-researchers-in-communicating-with-policymakers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the exercise to build the researchers’ capacities at the GDNet-AERC Policy Brief Training Workshop, I had the opportunity to interview some of the participants on a number of questions related to their research work. Some of them talked about the challenges they face when communicating their research to policymakers, among which: -          [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1563&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GDNet-AERC Policy Brief Training Workshop: Researchers sharing what they learned</title>
		<link>http://gdnetblog.org/2011/12/15/gdnet-aerc-policy-brief-training-workshop-researchers-sharing-what-they-learned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am again writing another post about the GDNet-AERC Policy Brief Training Workshop, held a couple of weeks ago in Nairobi, Kenya. By holding a range of training events and producing training materials, GDNet commits itself to help southern researchers communicate their work better and more widely. Therefore, it is important for us to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1551&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Policymakers addressing researchers at the GDNet-AERC Policy Brief Training Workshop</title>
		<link>http://gdnetblog.org/2011/12/14/policymakers-addressing-researchers-at-the-gdnet-aerc-policy-brief-training-workshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communicating effectively is a key to increase the impact of research. This is why GDNet dedicates its Research Communications Capacity Building Programme to help researchers building their capacities in communicating their research effectively with their target audience. Given that policymakers are the main target audience of researchers, an entire building block of the most recent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1545&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GDNet-AERC Policy Brief Training Workshop &#8211; ICT and Economic Development Project</title>
		<link>http://gdnetblog.org/2011/12/02/gdnet-aerc-policy-brief-training-workshop-ict-and-economic-development-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am writing this blog from Nairobi, Kenya, where I am helping run another GDNet-AERC Policy Brief workshop held from 1-2 December, 2011. The workshop is the fourth in a series of research communications capacity building workshops which were held in collaboration with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) over the past two years 2010-2011. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1534&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The psychology of scarcity: A very different look at poverty</title>
		<link>http://gdnetblog.org/2011/11/13/the-psychology-of-scarcity-a-very-different-look-at-poverty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fifth and last plenary session of the LACEA 16th Annual Meeting was dedicated to “The Psychology of Scarcity: A Very Different Look at Poverty”. Sendhill Mullainathan, Harvard University, delivered a thought provoking a new view on the cognitive capabilities of the poor. He argued that they might seem to be cognitive constrained not because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1527&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steven Berry &amp; Jean Tirole at the LACEA 16th Annual Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Inversion, Indices and Instruments: Identifying Differentiated Products Demand” was the topic of the third plenary at the LACEA 16th Annual Meeting. Steven Berry, Yale University, held a discussion on how the new economic thinking centered around differentiated products should be taken on and some of its implications. Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics, addressed the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1522&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Productive knowledge&#8221; and &#8220;the nature of liquidity provision&#8221; at the LACEA 16th Annual Meeting</title>
		<link>http://gdnetblog.org/2011/11/11/productive-knowledge-and-the-nature-of-liquidity-provision-at-the-lacea-16th-annual-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The LACEA meeting started on Thursday 10th with LACEA’s Presidential Address. The first plenary was dedicated to Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard University, who made a presentation on how wealth and development are related to the ability of a country to make more products, which in turn is based on how many different types of knowledge the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1517&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LACEA 16th Annual Meeting &#8211; Santiago, Chile</title>
		<link>http://gdnetblog.org/2011/11/10/lacea-16th-annual-meeting-santiago-chile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With almost 40 key speakers and over 300 contributed papers in 101 sessions covering all areas of economics, the 16th Annual LACEA Meeting 2011 will be jointly organized with the 26th Annual Meeting of the Latin American Chapter of the Econometric Society (LAMES) in Santiago, Chile, from November 10th to 12th and will be hosted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1504&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Will not use them. Cannot use them. Web 2 what?” Why aren’t web 2.0 tools being used more for research collaboration?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GDNet study explores the barriers to adoption of web 2.0 tools for research collaboration in developing countries By Cheryl Brown Blogs, wikis, social networking sites and other web 2.0 tools have enormous potential to facilitate collaboration. But to what extent are researchers actually using them to support networking, working with and exchanging knowledge with other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1490&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PEM Asia Research Communications Workshop</title>
		<link>http://gdnetblog.org/2011/10/14/pem-asia-research-communications-workshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being influential requires you to be clear who you are trying to influence! As basic as this sounds, it is often the reason why researchers fail to make a bigger impact with their work. GDNet’s ongoing research communications capacity building workshops explored some of the tools to help researchers analyse and target stakeholders recently. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1477&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GDNet/BLDS Scoping Workshop</title>
		<link>http://gdnetblog.org/2011/10/10/gdnetblds-scoping-workshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding the information literacy needs and Exploring how to build Southern researchers capacity to access and use information In collaboration with the British Library for Development Studies (BLDS), GDNet organized a scoping workshop for its team, including the Regional Coordinators covering its regional windows: Africa, MENA, South Asia, East Asia, CIS, CEE and Latin America. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1463&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GDNet reflects on the challenges for building capacity in knowledge management in Africa</title>
		<link>http://gdnetblog.org/2011/09/19/gdnet-reflects-on-the-challenges-for-building-capacity-in-knowledge-management-in-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article by GDNet featured in the latest issue of the World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development As the knowledge management and research communications arm of the Global Development Network, GDNet’s purpose is to help diverse research and policy audiences make better use of development research from the Global South. It does this through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gdnetblog.org&amp;blog=10618705&amp;post=1451&amp;subd=gdnetcomms&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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