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Research in Focus
GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT NETWORK NEWSLETTER
Issue #50 / May 2008



Welcome to "Research in Focus", a free monthly e-bulletin to keep you abreast of the latest policy research knowledge from the Global South featuring the latest highlights from the GDNet Knowledge Base. Our Knowledge base brings together social science knowledge from research centers world-wide in one easily searchable database.
It includes more than 14,114 research papers, 3,674 organizations and 7,054 researchers.

All information is freely accessible from the GDNet Knowledge Base: http://www.gdnet.org/development-research


KNOWLEDGE BASE HIGHLIGHTS
FEATURED RESEARCH
FEATURED RESEARCHERS
FEATURED ORGANIZATIONS
GDN LIBRARY
FUNDING NEWS
TOOL KITS

  Featured Research

Information transmission in emerging markets: the case of a unique financing instrument

Innovation in Indian and Pakistani equity markets
by Siddiqi, H. for Department of Economics, Lahore University of Management Sciences, 2008

Read the paper

Horizontal and vertical FDI spillovers: recent evidence from the Czech Republic

Spillover effects of FDI on the sales growth of domestic Czech companies
by Stan?ík, J. for Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and the Economics Institute (CERGE-EI), Prague, 2007

Read the paper

Is the nutritional status of males and females equally affected by economic growth? Evidence from Vietnam in the 1990s
Females are discriminated against in nutrition
by Molini, V. and Nube, M. for World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER), 2007

Read the paper
>>> Find more than 14,114 research papers on the GDNet Knowledge Base

  Featured Researchers

Joefrelin Ines

Associate Professor, Association od Marketing Educators of the Philippines, Philippines
Research interests: Corporate Social Responsibility, Community Based Rural Development, Education Reform and Management, Labour Markets More »

Gurmeet Singh

Senior Lecturer, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Research interests: Marketing Strategy, International Marketing, Internet Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Small Business More »

Dixon Torimiro
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension & Rural Development, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria., Nigeria
Research interests: Community Based Rural Development, Poverty Reduction, Participatory Planning, Child Labour More »
>>> Find details of over 7,054 development researchers worldwide

  Featured Organizations

Unidad Regional de Asistencia Técnica (RUTA) / Regional Unit for Technical Assistance, Costa Rica
Research on sustainable rural development and poverty reduction in Costa Rica and Central America More »
Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA), South Africa
Research organisation and think-tank on contemporary African issues More »
Citizens' Constitutional Forum Limited (CCF), Fiji
Organization concerend with constitutional issues More »
>>> Find details of over 3,674 policy research centers and organizations worldwide

  GDN Library

Was capital fleeing Southeast Asia?
Annual conference, 2007 Read the paper
The effect of tax and investment treaties on bilateral FDI flows to transition countries
Annual conference, 2008 Read the paper
Differing characteristics or differing rewards: What is behind the gender wage gap in Croatia?
Regional Research Competition, 2006 Read the paper
>>> Access research produced as part of GDN activities from the GDN Library

  Funding News

Scholarship Fund - Asia Pacific Regional Technology Centre (APRTC)
APRTC is well aware that the majority of the agricultural educators and other professionals who most need access to continuing educational opportunities are least able to pay for them.
Deadline: Continuous More »

>>> Find details of funding information services carrying up-to-date news of grants, fellowships and other funding opportunities

  Tool Kits

Toolkit: Disseminating research online
This toolkit provides broad tips and practical suggestions for communicating academic research using the internet. It draws on best practice for web strategies from the information and commercial worlds, especially selected to help the successful electronic dissemination of your research. More »

>>> Find out more tool kits providing practical and hands-on advice.

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