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2011 Global Development Awards and Medals Competition
Urbanization and Development: Delving Deeper into the Nexus
Year: 2011

GDN announced the winners for the Japanese Award for the Most Innovative Development Project (MIDP), Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD) and Medals for Research on Development (MRD) in it's 13th Annual Global Development Conference titled ‘Urbanization and Development: Delving Deeper into the Nexus’ in Budapest, Hungary on 16-18 June, 2012.

Awards & Medals: 2010 Winners:

Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project: First Prize: US $30,000; Second Prize: US $10,000; Third Prize: US $5,000
Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development: First Prize: US $30,000; Second Prize: US $7,500; Third Prize: US $7,500
Medals for Research on Development: First Prize: US $10,000; Second prize: US $5,000, in each of the three themes

Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project
Cloth for Work
First Prize: Anshu Gupta Country: India Organization: GOONJ
Impulse Case Information Centre Database
Second Prize: Hasina Kharbhih Country: India Organization: Impulse NGO Network
Strengthening Youth Capacity to Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Third Prize: Verengai Mabika Country: Zimbabwe Organization: Development Reality Institute (DRI)
Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development
The Commuting Worker: An Overlooked Aspect of Rural-Urban Interaction: Evidence from India
First Prize: S. Chandrasekhar Country: India Organization: Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)
Economic Incentives for Discouraging Urban Sprawl in Mexico City
Joint Second Prize: Gabriela Estrada Country: Mexico Organization: Instituto sobre Desarrollo Sustentable y Equidad Social (IDESES), Universidad Iberoamericana / Research Institute on Sustainable Development and Social Equity, Mexico
Exploring E-waste Recycling, Health and Food Security at Agbogbloshie Scrap Yard Accra
Joint Second Prize: Martin Oteng-Ababio Country: Ghana Organization: Economic Policy Management Programme - University of Ghana
Medals for Research on Development: The Interactive Economy and Urban Development

Schooling externalities in urban Nigeria: The social interactive sources Assessing the efficacy of investing in schooling
First Prize: Musiliu Adewole Country: Nigeria Organization: College of Development Studies, Covenant University


Agglomeration shadow: A non-linear core–periphery model of urban growth in China (1990-2006) Gaining a better understanding of the core-periphery model in China
Second Prize: Zheng Xu Country: China Organization:
Medals for Research on Development: Urban Externalities (Contagious Disease, Congestion and Crime) and Urban Poverty

Layoffs and urban poverty in the state-owned enterprise communities in Shaanxi Province, China Defining urban poverty, using various methods, to come up with effective solutions
First Prize: Zhiming Cheng Country: China Organization: The University of Wollongong, Australia


Family well being, women attitudes and the intergenerational transmission of violence in urban areas in Peru How urbanization, and its externalities, can affect violence against women and children
Second Prize: Martin Benavides Country: Peru Organization: GRADE, Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo
Medals for Research on Development: Elite Capture in Urban Society

Elite Capture in Urban Society: Evidence from Indonesia Contributing to the limited empirical literatures regarding the existence of elite capture in social programs
Joint First Prize: Rivayani Darmawan Country: Indonesia Organization: Development Economics Research Group, University of Göttingen


Inter-generational effects of titling programs: Physical vs. human capital Taking a closer look at investment strategies and their effect on children and others
Joint First Prize: Nestor Gandelman Country: Uruguay Organization: Universidad ORT