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Small grants
Department for International Development (DFID), GB and other funders
The Department for International Development (DFID) and the International Development Research Council (IDRC) invite applications for small grants under the Pathways to Resilience in Semi-arid Economies (PRISE) research project. These aim to support PRISE’s objectives in its inception phase. Projects should develop baselines and assessments of current socio-economic and environmental contexts of semi-arid lands and assess drivers of change and vulnerability in semi-arid lands over the period to 2030. Research should focus on one or more of PRISE’s core countries, including Burkina Faso, Kenya, Pakistan, Senegal, Tajikistan and Tanzania.
Applicants must be early career researchers, either studying towards a PhD or completed their PhD within the last three years. Researchers from developing countries are particularly encouraged to apply. Applicants may not be enrolled as a student, or employed by, the PRISE core consortium partners, including Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the London School of Economics (LSE), University of Dar es Salaam, Innovation Environnement et Développement en Afrique (IED Afrique)and the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI).
Grants are worth between £3,000 and £5,000. There is potential for projects that bring exceptional value to the programme to receive funding of up to £10,000. Research must be completed by December 2014.
Closing date 23 Jun 14
Welcome new member
We would like to welcome Alejandro Riano (University of Nottingham) to the InsTED network. His research focuses on firm-level adjustment to globalisation and its aggregate implications..
Advancing community-based services for health activity
The Agency for International Development (USAID) invites applications for its advancing community-based services for health activity in Liberia. This aims to support community-based delivery of health and social welfare services and increase utilisation through health communications and support of community institutions. The key objectives are:
•increased utilisation of quality services;
•more responsive services through effective health system decentralisation;
•increased financial sustainability of services;
•increased safer water supply.
Eligibility is unrestricted.
One award of up to US$24.8 million is available.
Ref: USAID: SOL-669-13-000056.
Click here for further details.
Welcome new members
We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network.
Professor Roger R. Betancourt (University of Maryland) His research interests currently lie in the area of applied microeconomics and economic development.
Pierre-Louis Vezina (University of Oxford) His research interests include international trade and development.
IGC Call for Proposals
The IGC invites researchers to submit proposals for high-calibre research projects relevant to growth policies in developing countries. The deadline for submission is11:59pm, 31 May 2014, GMT time.
2014 Global Development Finance Conference – DUBAI
The Review of Development Finance Journal in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Development Finance and the Global Development Finance Research and Training Networks is organising the 2014 Global Development Finance Conference in Dubai in 3-4 September 2014. The conference will be bringing together academics, researchers from institutions working in the area of development and other researchers from commercial banks, central banks and other international development institutions.
Deadlines
June 30, 2014 – Submission of Abstracts
July 31, 2014 – Submission of full paper
August 31, 2014 – Registration and Payment of Conference Fee
Welcome new members
We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network.
Prof Scott L. Baier (Clemson University) His research centers on International Trade, Economic Growth and Development, and Applied Econometrics.
Prof Kristy Buzard (Syracuse University) Her current research focuses on the formation and maintenance of trade agreements, and on international trade theory and contract theory more generally.
Prof Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso (University of Goettingen) Her research interests include International Trade, Environmental Economics, Development Economics, and Applied Econometrics.
Lorenzo Rotunno (University of Oxford) His primary research interests are in International Trade and Political Economy.
Welcome new member
We would like to welcome Ivan Lyubimov (Tinbergen Institute and Erasmus School of Economics) to the InsTED network. His primary research interests are in Development Economics and Political Economy.
Welcome new member
We would like to welcome Prof Giacomo Ponzetto (CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) to the InsTED network. His primary research interests are in political economy, international trade, urban economics, and applied microeconomics.