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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 […]
Support to enhance livelihoods for people dependent on informal economy and improve social inclusion of marginalised and vulnerable persons The Directorate-General for Development and Cooperation (EuropeAid) invites tenders for support to enhance livelihoods for people dependent on informal economy and improve social inclusion of marginalised and vulnerable persons. This research will address key issues relating […]
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.
The adoption of new technologies is fundamental for economic development. This might have led one to expect that the more technologically backward a country the more fervently it would adopt new technologies. Yet in fact, one of the greatest difficulties with the process of economic development is precisely the resistance among entrenched interest groups to […]
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. Visit funder’s website
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 […]
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. […]
Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West’s rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the […]
Mass international migration is a response to extreme global inequality, and immigration has a profound impact on the way we live. Yet our views – and those of our politicians – remain caught between two extremes: popular hostility to migrants, tinged by xenophobia and racism; and the view of business and liberal elites that ‘open […]
The call Strategic Research Fund: Employment for Stability provides funding for strategic research that investigates the correlation between employment and stability in a specific set of fragile or conflict affected Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), or for research into the key drivers and challenges determining employment strategies of the private sector in these countries. […]