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2007 Global Development Awards and Medals Competition

Year: 2007

The Brisbane conference provided the venue for the finale to the Eighth Annual Global Development Awards and Medals Competition. Fourty researchers and development practitioners presented their selected papers/proposals at the conference and the winners were announced at the Awards dinner on January 30, 2008.

Awards & Medals: 2007 Winners
  • Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project 
  • Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development
  • Medals for Research on Development
View details of 2007 winners by theme:
  • Fragile States: Addressing Vulnerability
  • Household Exposure to Risk: Effects on Poverty
  • The Rule of Law: Providing Security for Development
  • Women's Rights, Security and Development: Challenges and Opportunities
  • Natural Resources: Risks and Implications for Sustaining Development

Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project

Sustainable solid waste management in rural cities of Peru
A program for cleaner cities and healthy individuals in Peru

Prizes:
First Prize USD 20,000; Second Prize USD 10,000 and Third Prize USD 5,000


First Prize: Albina Ruiz
Country: Peru
Organization: Citizen's Proposal Group

Safe Water for Everyone using Effective Technology (SWEET)
A program aiming to improve the water situation in India

Prizes:
First Prize USD 20,000; Second Prize USD 10,000 and Third Prize USD 5,000


Second Prize: Verghese Jacob
Country: India
Organization: Byrraju Foundation

Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development

Court decentralization and women’s well being
Are formal mechanisms of law enforcement effective interventions to empower and enforce women’s rights?

First Prize: Raul Francisco Andrade Ciudad
Country: Peru
Organization: Analysis Group of Development

Crafting a socially inclusive service policy to address vulnerability of marginalized communities: lessons from Nepal's education policy
Addressing how to produce the effective and appropriate social inclusive policy

Second Prize: Nephil Matangi Maskay
Country: Nepal
Organization: Nepal Rastra Bank

Political economy of transnational water insecurity: What does the Mekong River (1985-2005) say?
The discussion on whether water pollution will be restricted only to pollutants that are directly or indirectly made by human activities

Second Prize: Rongxing Guo
Country: China
Organization: Regional Science Association of China (RSAC)

Fragile States: Addressing Vulnerability Medal

Impact of land use regulations: Evidence from India’s cities
Impacts on city growth and the urban poor have drawn little attention

First Prize: Kala Seetharam Sridhar
Country: India
Organization: National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP)

Is a governmental micro-credit program for the poor really pro-poor? evidence from Vietnam
Examining poverty targeting and impact of Vietnam's micro-credit program

Second Prize: Nguyen Viet Cuong
Country: Vietnam
Organization: National Economics University (NEU)

Household Exposure to Risk: Effects on Poverty Medal

Household vulnerability to transient and chronic poverty: evidence from rural Kenya
Enhancing human capital and agricultural technologies can reduce poverty in Kenya

First Prize: Milu Muyanga
Country: Kenya
Organization: Egerton University

Responses to poverty and risks in Vietnam: How effectively does the Vietnamese public safety net target vulnerable populations?
Vietnam’s current safety net system fails to target the most vulnerable groups

Second Prize: Quynh Nguyen
Country: Vietnam
Organization: Vietcom Bank (VCB)

The Rule of Law: Providing Security for Development Medal

Linking urban vulnerability, infra-power and 'Communal' violence: extralegal security and policing in South Central Mumbai
Reducing urban vulnerabilities can reduce urban communal violence

First Prize: Jaideep Gupte
Country: India
Organization: University of Oxford

Enforcement and Compliance with Labor Regulations
Enforcing labor regulations can enhance welfare  

Second Prize: Lucas Ronconi
Country: Argentina
Organization: Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Berkeley

Women's Rights, Security and Development: Challenges and Opportunities Medal

Gender discriminations and HIV/AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa
Educating and empowering women can help reduce HIV/AIDS infections

First Prize: Chrystelle Tsafack Temah
Country: Cameroon
Organization: Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Developpement International (CERDI)

Glass ceilings, sticky floors sticky doors? a quantile regres approach to exploring gender wage gaps in Sri Lanka
Policies should address gender bias in hiring and in workplace practices

Second Prize: Dileni Gunewardena
Country: Sri Lanka
Organization: University of Peradeniya

Natural Resources: Risks and Implications for Sustaining Development Medal

The paradox of groundwater scarcity amidst plenty and its implications for food security and poverty alleviation in West Bengal, India: what can be done to ameliorate the crisis?
Defining causes and solutions to water scarcity in West Bengal

First Prize: Aditi Mukherji
Country: India
Organization: International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

An auction mechanism for protecting the commons: theory and application
Inducing firms to reveal their private information

Second Prize: Juan-Pablo Montero
Country: Chile
Organization: Institute of Economics, Catholic University of Chile

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