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AWARDS |
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Person(s) |
Awards |
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Mar 5 |
Miguel Robles, |
Prize awarded by the Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development, co-hosted by the Agence Française de Développement, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and World Bank. The prize was awarded for work in developing simple and transparent weather insurance products as a way to improve the welfare of millions of rain-dependent farmers. |
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Mar 29 |
John Hoddinott |
The article "Effect of a nutrition intervention during early childhood on economic productivity in Guatemalan adults" by John Hoddinott, John Maluccio, Jere R. Behrman, Rafael Flores, and Reynaldo Martorell, received the 2009 CGIAR Science Award in the Outstanding Scientific Article category. The conferment ceremony was held during the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development. |
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Mar 31 |
Received the Bangladesh Bank Award 2009 for outstanding contribution in the field of agricultural food security, poverty reduction, international trade, and development economics through research, publication, and thoughtful ideas over the last 50 years. |
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Jun 6 |
Antoine Bouet awarded the Alan A. Powell Award 2010 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the establishment and early development of the Global Trade Analysis Project, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University. |
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Jun 20 |
Received jointly with Shang-Jin Wei the Gregory and Paula Chow Best Paper Award from the Chinese Economists Society Conference in 2010 for "The Sexual Foundation of Economic Growth: Evidence from China." |
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Jun 26 |
Ruth Vargas Hill |
The Journal of Development Studies awards an annual prize in memory of Dudley Seers, for the best article to appear in each volume of the journal. The paper “Using Stated Preferences and Beliefs to Indentify the Impact of Risk on Poor Households” by Ruth Vargas Hill was given an honorable mention by the judges. This will be announced in Volume 46, No. 9 of the journal. |
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Jul 26 |
AAEA Quality of Communication Award for "Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Development" edited with David Spielman. |
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Sep 14 |
Receive the Josef G. Knoll European Science Award. |
