2010 GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AWARDS AND MEDALS COMPETITION
Launched by the Global Development Network in 2000, the Awards and Medals Competition seeks to encourage quality research and innovative development projects. Winners will be awarded cash prizes, training and a chance to present their work at GDN’s 12th Annual Conference at Bogotá in January 2010.

Research Themes
External Capital Flows and Financing for Development
Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Sector Development
Innovative Sources of Development Finance

Who can apply
Researchers who are citizens and permanent residents of developing and transition countries.
Researchers who are citizens of developing/ transition countries who are temporarily based in a developed country (for more than five years.)
Researchers who are less than 45 years old as on 18 October, 2010.
Staff of bilateral/multilateral agencies cannot apply.
Development projects being implemented in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, Pacific Islands, and the transition economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Projects being managed by an NGO headquartered in one of the above regions.
Projects implemented before 30 June, 2009.
Finalist projects from previous three years cannot apply
Projects that applied previously (not finalists) may re-apply with Updates

Further details/guidelines/FAQs at:
www.gdnet.org/~2010awards  

This is to inform you of the Call for Applications for the PhD Program in Economics of the Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan for the academic year 2010-11. For this program, up to eight students are admitted, four of which will receive a scholarship.
To participate in the selection process, a candidate’s application must be received by September 18th. For further information and to download the Call please visit the following web-site:
http://www.unicatt.it/phdeconomics
The Director of the PhD Program,
Gerd Weinrich