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Five Questions with Corina Murafa, Managing Director of Ashoka in Romania, and former GDN grantee, who has always focused, in her various professional engagements, on producing long-lasting positive change in Romania. ​

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Conference Webcast

Conference Webcast link and timings

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Speaker Bios (Plenary)

Short Bio of Speakers.

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Venue Maps

conference map and venue

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Agenda

Conference Agenda

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Conference Media

Conference Media

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Registration & Logistics

GDN and its partners invite developing country researchers, policymakers, the private sector and civil society actors to participate and suggest either presentations or full sessions to be showcased in the conference. 

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Conference Partners

GDN is holding the conference in partnership with three partners.

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Themes & Focus Areas

GDN and its partners invite developing country researchers, policymakers, private sector and civil society to discuss the ways forward to foster the use of STI in enabling progress for development.

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Mapping the development impacts of migration

This paper presents a comprehensive framework for mapping the economic and social impacts of migration, focusing particularly on developing countries that send migrants to other countries, as a way to understand and frame the relationship between migration and development, and to help policymakers devise plans to optimize the overall development impacts of migration.​

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Global Research Competition 2016 -- Aid Effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Global Development Network (GDN) recently closed, on Sept 11, 2016, a competitive call for interest as part of the Global Research Competition (GRC) on aid effectiveness in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on health and agriculture.  

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Global Research Competition 2013

Building on the successes and lessons learnt from the pilot round in 2012, GDN launched a second round of the GRC in mid-2013.

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Global Research Competition

The Global Research Competition -- a competitive grant program designed to provide early-career social science researchers from developing and transition with a platform to investigate international development challenges through collaborative cross-country or inter-regional research projects -- ran from 2013 to 2016, targeting a range of topical development issues.   

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EIB-GDN Impact Finance Workshop

GDN and the European Investment Bank (EIB) held a week-long Impact Finance Workshop at EIB Headquarters in Luxembourg from 20-27 September, 2017.

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Science of Life Studies (SOLS), Cambodia | 2016-2017

SOLS Cambodia aims to set up 18 subsidized province centers in Cambodia to provide an alternative system of quality, holistic education under its project, Equal Opportunities for Education.

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About GDN

The Global Development Network (GDN) is a public international organization that supports high quality, policy-oriented, social science research in Low- and Middle- Income Countries to promote better lives.

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GDN grants around the world (since 1999)

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Japan Social Development Fund Award

The Japan Social Development Fund Award (JSDF) is a category of GDN's Global Development Awards Competition, which seeks to recognize innovative ideas in the implementation of development projects for vulnerable and disadvantaged communities in developing countries.

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Next Horizons Essay Contest

In 2014, GDN ran an international essay competition on the future of development assistance in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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KOICA Development Research Award

The KOICA Development Research Award (KOICA Award) was a competitive prize administered by GDN and funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).

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Regional Research Competition

The Global Development Network's Regional Research Competitions (RRCs) were carried in partnership with GDN's Regional Network Partners (RNPs) from 1999 to 2016.

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Supporting Policy Research to Inform Agricultural Policy in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

The GDN Global Research Project, Supporting Policy Research to Inform Agricultural Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was designed to help shape North-South and South-South debates on agricultural policies.

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Urbanization and Development: Delving Deeper into the Nexus

Urbanization and Development: Delving Deeper into the Nexus, provided research grants to support comparative and systematic research focused across continents, and brought together experts from Francophone Africa, Asia and Latin America to address fundamental issues on urbanization and development.

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Varieties of Governance: Improving Public Service Delivery

GDN's three-year Global Research Project, Varieties of Governance: Effective Public Service Delivery, explored the role of formal and informal institutions, at both country and sector level, in the effectiveness (or lack) of public service delivery in the areas of basic education, water supply and transport infrastructure (roads).

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Development on the Move: Measuring and Optimizing Migration’s Economic and Social Impacts

This Global Research Project, jointly coordinated with the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr), involved seven research teams from across the world (Colombia, Fiji, Georgia, Ghana, Jamaica, Macedonia and Vietnam), to measure the economic and social impacts of migration in developing countries.

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Promoting Innovative Programs from the Developing World: Towards Realizing the Health MDGs in Africa and Asia

This project sought to identify the greatest potential for replication and contributing to the achievement of the three Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) directly related to health in Africa and Asia, namely, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.

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Impact of Rich Countries' Policies on Poverty: Perspectives from the Developing World

GDN's fourth Global Research Project was designed to measure the impact of key policies pursued by rich countries on poverty in developing and transition countries. The three main focus areas were trade, migration and capital flows (aid and foreign direct investment – FDI).

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18th Global Development Conference

GDN's 18th Global Development Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation for Development was held from 22-23 March 2018 in New Delhi, India.

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About

In partnership with the JICA Research Institute (JICA-RI), GDN will document the increase of quality and productivity improvement at the firm level through new managerial methods, such as Kaizen, the Japanese management approach, under this two-year collaborative research program.

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About

“Natural Resource Management - Natural Wealth Accounting” is a capacity building program launched by GDN in 2014 to help three ecologically fragile countries—Madagascar, Mauritius and Morocco—to understand the interactions between natural resources and socio-economics activities. 

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About

This program aims to strengthen the capacity of independent institutions in the 17 smaller countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to produce evidence on national efforts to increase quality of education.

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About

This program promotes African research on key development issues on the continent, with the overarching goal of enhancing development effectiveness. 

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Making a difference in Education

A film about GDN's Annual Global Development Conference 2016

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DEVELOPMENT AID EFFECTIVENESS IN AFRICA

This program promotes African research on key development issues on the continent, with the overarching goal of enhancing development effectiveness.

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About

GlobalDev Blog is a new platform for accessible, policy-relevant research on development, supported by the Global Development Network, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other partners.  

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Careers

A career with GDN

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Results

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