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GDN Awards & Medals Competition launched
2009 research themes "truly global"
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GDN now invites researchers from developing and transition countries to submit new research proposals and completed research papers. The three research themes seek to explore pressing global issues – globalization, regulation and development; international migration; and regional integration. The Competition, funded by the Government of Japan; Luxembourg Ministry of Finance and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, offers cash prizes and travel expenses to finalists to present their research/proposals at GDN’s next conference in Prague in January 2010. Deadline for submitting research proposals/papers has been extended till October 20, 2009. Submissions for the Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project are no longer being accepted.
The Competition, held in three categories, awards cash prizes and a round-trip air fare with all boarding and lodging expenses paid to attend GDN’s Annual Global Development Conference, held each year in a different country, where finalists present their proposals/papers/projects before an eminent jury for the final round. This year, the Eleventh Annual Global Development Conference will be held in Prague, Czech Republic from January 16-18, 2010.
Reflecting the global nature of GDN’s activities, the 2009 themes can be said to be truly global as they cover issues that concern countries and people across the world.
Theme 1: Globalization, Regulation and Development
The current financial crisis is unique in its depth, breadth, and impact in both advanced and developing economies. One important issue that has been raised by this crisis is the regulation of financial markets. There is a need to think of a more efficient and effective, national and multilateral supervisory regime whose aims will be as well to ensure that banks, investment firms and insurance companies comply with applicable rules as to protect consumers and other users of financial services. Moreover, there are still challenges such as behind-the-border policies that hinder investment; trade agreements which create complexities for traders and investors; and numerous border and transit disputes which stymie the flow of goods especially to landlocked countries.
Theme 2: International Migration: Crossing Borders, Changing Lives?
Since the beginning of the 1990s, international migration has increased in dramatic proportions. Migration has become an important topic on the development agenda, in both academic and policy circles, including the current Human Development Report. With these large migrations of workers and their families across borders and continents come a series of trials. Social integration is one of the biggest challenges today and likely to continue in the years to come. In the destination countries, negative popular attitudes towards migrants often amplified by the media and nationalist propaganda remain the main hindrances to a just and equitable migration regime.
Theme 3: Regional Integration-Convergence Big Time, or, an Opportunity Wasted?
Regional integration has had a chequered history around the world with achievements being conditioned by the interaction of politics and economics and, of course the specific policies, instruments and institutional innovations deployed for the purpose. Free trade alone is not sufficient, but, it is also important that the countries undertake institutional reforms and improve domestic policies to facilitate regional integration. Supranational organizations may or may not serve their purpose if institutional designs do not fit well with domestic political structures or traditions. Successful integration calls for strengthened regional governance as well. Another core governance challenge within an international region is precisely the management of interdependence and shared sovereignty where there is not the same degree of cultural homogeneity.
For more details on the 2009 Awards and Medals Competition, click here »
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