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2004 Global Development Awards and Medals Competition
Developing and Developed Worlds: Mutual Impact
Year: 2004

The Dakar conference provided the venue for the finale to the Fifth Annual Global Development Awards and Medals Competition. Researchers and development practitioners presented their selected papers/proposals at the conference and the winners were announced at the Awards dinner during the conference period.

Awards & Medals: 2004 Winners

Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project
Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development
Medals for Research on Development

View details of 2004 winners by theme:

Mutual impact, the global economic architecture, and the Millennium Development Goals
Trade policies and Sub-Saharan Africa
Investment in health and mutual impact
Conflict, human security, and migration
Foreign direct investment, labor markets, and the environment

Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project

Development through education: an integrated program An integrated program in education, conservation and health care
First Prize: Yerravali Anantha Padmanabha Rao Country: India Organization: Rishi Valley Institute for Educational Resources (RIVER)


Future generations Afghanistan: the seed-scale process for mobilizing and scaling up community development with impacts in women’s literacy and mother and child health The adaptation and application of the SEED-SCALE process in central Afghanistan
Second Prize: Carl E.Taylor Country: Afghanistan Organization: Future Generations


Childline India First and only 24 X 7 hour emergency phone and outreach helpline for children in need of care and protection
Second Prize: Devasmita Guha Menon Country: India Organization: Childline India Foundation


Future generations Afghanistan: the seed-scale process for mobilizing and scaling up community development with impacts in women’s literacy and mother and child health The adaptation and application of the SEED-SCALE process in central Afghanistan
Second Prize: Dorothy Knapp Country: Afghanistan Organization: Future Generations
Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development

Towards a proactive policy for the displaced population in Colombia Helping policies that support settlement in receptor locations and promote return to origin sites
First Prize: Ana Maria Ibanez Country: Colombia Organization: Universidad de los Andes


Foreign direct investment, labor markets, environment and economic development: a case study on Argentina Enhancing FDI contribution to sustainable development
Second Prize: Daniel Chudnovsky Country: Argentina Organization: Research Center for the Transformation, Argentina


The impact of aid on recipient behavior: a micro-level, dynamic analysis of remittances, schooling, work, consumption, investment and social mobility in Nicaragua The future of development aid
Second Prize: Lykke E. Andersen Country: Bolivia Organization: Grupo Integral S.R.L.
Mutual impact, the global economic architecture, and the Millennium Development Goals Medal

Think global, act local: social credit based on MDGs Analyzing the social target mechanisms based on the classic principal-agent framework in Brazil
First Prize: Marcelo Cortes Neri Country: Brazil Organization: Getulio Vargas Foundation


Can Vietnam achieve one of its millennium development goals? An analysis of schooling dropouts of children Determinants of schooling dropouts in Vietnam
Second Prize: Vo Tri Thahn Country: Vietnam Organization: Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), Vietnam
Trade policies and Sub-Saharan Africa Medal

Regionalism in West Africa: do polar countries reap the benefits? a role for migration The effect of brain drain on the home economies
First Prize: Adama Konseiga Country: Germany Organization: Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn ,Germany


Meeting Millennium Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa : the bottlenecks in market access for Africa’s textile and clothing exports How can the trade sector contribute to the development of Sub-Saharan Africa
Second Prize: Moses Kindiki Country: Kenya Organization: ACFRN
Investment in Health and Mutual Impact Medal

Rural households’ vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and economic efficiency in the rainforest belt of Nigeria Economic and social effects of HIV in Nigeria
First Prize: Abayomi Oyekale Country: Nigeria Organization: University of Ibadan, Nigeria


Community prepayment of health care and estimation of the willingness to pay in Cameroon: evidence of rural households in the centre region Improving health care accessibility in Cameroon
Second Prize: Joachim Nyemeck Binam Country: Cameroon Organization: The Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD), Cameroon
Conflict, Human Security, and Migration Medal

Smuggling humans: a theory of debt-financed migration Counteracting illegal immigration
First Prize: Sergei Guriev Country: Russian Federation Organization: New Economic School (NES), Russia


Children at risk in the agricultural sector in Sub-Saharan Africa: Determinants of child labor participation in the cocoa farming of Cote d’Ivoire Fighting child labour in the agriculture sector in Africa
Second Prize: Guy Blaise Nkamleu Country: Cameroon Organization: Faculty of Economics and Management (FASEG) The University of Yaounde II
Foreign Direct Investment, Labor Markets, and the Environment Medal

Foreign direct investment spillovers and the absorption capabilities of domestic firms in the Argentine manufacturing sector (1992-2001) How to increase spill-over effects of FDI in the manufacturing sector: Argentina
First Prize: Daniel Chudnovsky Country: Argentina Organization: Research Center for the Transformation, Argentina


Does foreign ownership matter? Russian experience How can spillover effects of FDI increase productivity of domestic firms? Russia's experience
Second Prize: Ksenia V. Yudaeva Country: Russian Federation Organization: Centre for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), Russian Federation