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Apr 12 |
Akhter Ahmed, |
Received the Award for Innovations to Prevent Gender-Based Violence from the World Bank Group and nonprofit Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI), for their proposal entitled “The Effects of Transfers and Behavior Change Communication on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh (Bangladesh, South Asia Region).” |
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Apr 15 |
Kevin Chen's student Jianying Wang received the Best Achievement Award from Zhejiang University, China, for a paper she wrote together with Kevin and other two authors: "Land Productivity and Farm Size under Rapid Transformation: A Reappraisal from China (Management World 2015(9): 65-81). “Management World” is a A* journal in China. |
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Apr 26 |
The paper “A comparative analysis of agricultural research and extension reforms in China and India” by Suresh Chandra Babu, Jikun Huang, P. Venkatesh, Yumei Zhang has been selected by the journal’s editorial team as a Highly Commended Paper in the 2016 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. |
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Jun 16 |
Will Martin was inducted into GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project) Hall of Fame. This is the top award given by the GTAP community, reflecting nearly 25 years of sustained contributions. The award was given to Will for his vibrant and brilliant advocacy of global CGE analysis in the field of agricultural trade and poverty reduction analysis and support of the community through his contributions on the GTAP Advisory Board and his position at the World Bank. Also for his impressive academic and policy reform records constantly pushing forward the needs of a global database and promoting innovation. |
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Jun 16 |
Antoine Bouët was named 2016–2019 GTAP Research Fellow for his outstanding research, trade policy analysis, and leadership in capacity building. The award was announced last week during the 19th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, held at the World Bank in Washington, DC. |
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Jun 28 |
The World Food Prize will be awarded to Bouis, Director of HarvestPlus, and colleagues from the International Potato Center, for their work on biofortification, which improves the nutrition and health of the rural poor. |
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Sep 2 |
Clarence Stone Scholar Award, Urban and Local Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA). |
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Sep 9 |
Xiaobo Zhang won the 6th Zhang Peigang Development Economics Outstanding Achievement Award for his research on industrialization in China. Zhang’s paper “Cluster-based industrialization in China: Financing and performance,” was published in the Journal of International Economics and earned him the award. The award is the most prestigious one in the field of development economics in China. [http://www.pkcjjh.org/detail.php?tid=3&cid=6&id=1059] |
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Sep 13 |
Xiaobo Zhang’s paper “Cluster-based industrialization in China: Financing and performance”, published in Journal of International Economics, won the 6th Zhang Peigang Award for Outstanding Achievement in Development Economics. |
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Sep 15 |
PHND Senior Research Assistant Amir Jilani was awarded the 2016 MPP Thesis Prize from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University for his distinguished research into whether politician identity and party affiliation of legislators affects employment and welfare outcomes for minorities in India. |
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Oct 25 |
Xinshen Diao, Josaphat Kweka, and Margaret McMillan won the Best Conference Paper award from the 2016 China Agricultural Economic Review (CAER) - IFPRI Annual Conference, held in Fuzhou, China. We thank the International Growth Centre and CGIAR’s Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM) program for financial support. This is a forthcoming IFPRI Discussion Paper. http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15738coll2/id/130929 |
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Oct 25 |
The conference paper "Economic Transformation in Africa from the Bottom Up: Macro and Micro Evidence from Tanzania", authored by Xinshen Diao, Josaphat Kweka, and Margaret McMillan, won the Best Conference Paper award from the 2016 China Agricultural Economic Review (CAER) - IFPRI Annual Conference, held in Fuzhou, China. The research was funded by PIM. |
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Oct 25 |
Xinshen Diao's conference paper "Economic Transformation in Africa from the Bottom Up: Macro and Micro Evidence from Tanzania" won the "Best Conference Paper" award from the 2016 CAER-IFPRI Annual Conference, held in Fuzhou, China. The research was funded by PIM. |
