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9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026"> <o:colormenu v:ext="edit" fillcolor="#cff"/> </o:shapedefaults></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext="edit"> <o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1"/> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=WordSection1> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=685 style='width:513.8pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none;mso-border-alt:solid navy 3.0pt; mso-yfti-tbllook:480;mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-border-insideh: 4.5pt thin-thick-small-gap navy;mso-border-insidev:4.5pt thin-thick-small-gap navy'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes'> <td width=685 valign=top style='width:513.8pt;border:solid navy 3.0pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#B4FFFF; mso-shading:windowtext;mso-pattern:horz-stripe aqua'><a 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Gothic","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:JasmineUPC;color:navy;background:#E7FFFF;mso-shading: windowtext;mso-pattern:horz-stripe #CCFFFF'>EWSLETTER</span></b><span style='font-size:23.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:".VnCooper","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:fuchsia;background:#E7FFFF;mso-shading:windowtext; mso-pattern:horz-stripe #CCFFFF'><br> </span><span style='font-size:23.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#993300;background:#E7FFFF;mso-shading:windowtext; mso-pattern:horz-stripe #CCFFFF'>August </span><span style='font-size:23.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:#993300;background:#E7FFFF;mso-shading:windowtext;mso-pattern: horz-stripe #CCFFFF'>2010<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#B4FFFF; mso-shading:windowtext;mso-pattern:horz-stripe aqua'><span style='font-family: ".VnCooper","sans-serif";color:fuchsia'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:1'> <td width=685 valign=top style='width:513.8pt;border:solid navy 3.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid navy 3.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";color:green'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";color:green'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";color:green'>CONTENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoToc1><!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>TOC \o &quot;1-2&quot; \f \h \z \u <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span><![endif]--><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc268590927">VDIC News<span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration: none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc268590927 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200360038003500390030003900320037000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal; mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc2><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc268590928"><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Free Training Sessions Provided by VDIC</span><span style='color:black;display: none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>.. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc268590928 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200360038003500390030003900320038000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;font-style:normal;mso-no-proof: yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc2><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc268590929"><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Exhibition at VDIC</span><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>.. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc268590929 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200360038003500390030003900320039000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;font-style:normal;mso-no-proof: yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc1><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc268590930">Library<span style='color:black;display:none; mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc268590930 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200360038003500390030003900330030000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal; mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc2><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc268590931"><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Free access to FAO database contributes to sustainable development</span><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc268590931 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200360038003500390030003900330031000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;font-style:normal;mso-no-proof: yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc2><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc268590932"><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Highlights from the New Resources to VDIC Library</span><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>.. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc268590932 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>2<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200360038003500390030003900330032000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;font-style:normal;mso-no-proof: yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc2><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc268590933"><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Highlights of some new academic papers on development issues in Vietnam</span><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>... </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc268590933 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>2<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200360038003500390030003900330033000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;font-style:normal;mso-no-proof: yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc1><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc268590934">New Publications for Sale at VDIC<span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>.. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc268590934 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>5<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200360038003500390030003900330034000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal; mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc1><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc268590935">Information on Development Projects in Vietnam<span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>... </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc268590935 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>9<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200360038003500390030003900330035000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal; mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc2><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc268590936"><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>New Disclosure World Bank Operational Project Documents for Vietnam</span><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>... </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc268590936 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>9<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200360038003500390030003900330036000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;font-style:normal;mso-no-proof: yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoToc1><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="#_Toc268590937">Funding Opportunities<span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-tab-count:1 dotted'>. </span></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> PAGEREF _Toc268590937 \h <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style='color:black;display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>9<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:data>08D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003200360038003500390030003900330037000000</w:data> </xml><![endif]--></span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='color:black; display:none;mso-hide:screen;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--></a></span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal; mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:2'> <td width=685 valign=top style='width:513.8pt;border:solid navy 3.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid navy 3.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#33CCCC'><a name="_Toc268590927"><span style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:blue'>VDIC News</span></a><span style='font-size: 20.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></h1> <h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal; font-style:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></h2> <h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#CCFFFF'><a name="_Toc268590928"></a><a name="_Toc258328313"><span style='mso-bookmark: _Toc268590928'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:green;font-style:normal'>Free Training Sessions Provided by VDIC</span></span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'> <o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Location: <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>       </span>VDIC, 2<sup>nd</sup> Floor, 63 Ly Thai To, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Hanoi</st1:City></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:#CCFFFF'><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:red'>IMPORTANT NOTICES FOR PARTICIPANTS</span></u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black'>: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black'>* Please read the course materials available online at </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><a href="http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=library&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=339&amp;mid=322&amp;cmid=361">http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=library&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=339&amp;mid=322&amp;cmid=361</a> <span style='color:black'>before attending the class. It is useful to take them to the class for additional notes since we do not provide participants with printed course materials. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black'>* Please bring your own laptop to the classes if possible since these training sessions require computer use and Internet access while number of computers for class participants are limited. Wifi is provided free of charge at VDIC.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF'><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'> Searching the Internet: basic skills class<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Date: <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>             </span>August 11, 2010 -- Time: 09:30am to 12:00 <st1:time Minute="00" Hour="12" w:st="on">noon</st1:time><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Aims: <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>             </span>After the workshop, participants should: (i) have a better understanding of information-finding possibilities on the Internet (ii) have a broad overview of different search tools (iii) be able to phrase search queries effectively.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF'><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'> Referencing skills plus EndNote instructions<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Date: <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>             </span>August 11, 2010 -- Time: 01:30pm to 04:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Aims: <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>             </span>After the workshop, participants should know how to: (i) manage their references (ii) cite the references appropriately (iii) create a reference list or bibliography and (iv) learn how to use EndNote software to automatically manage your referencing works.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#CCFFFF'><a name="_Toc268590929"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:green;font-style:normal'>Exhibition at VDIC</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'> <o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>International Youth Day 12 August, 2010: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding <o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'>&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>The UN defines youth as those between the ages of 15 to 24. Today, youth represent 18% of the global population or 1.2 billion people. 87% of youth live in developing countries facing challenges brought about by limited access to resources, healthcare, education, training, employment and economic opportunities. Member States of the United Nations recognize that young people in all countries are a major human resource for development, positive social change and technological innovation. Their ideals, energy and vision are essential for the continuing development of their societies.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Young people are not merely passive beneficiaries but effective agents of change. Dedicated, enthusiastic and creative, youth have been contributing to development by addressing society s most challenging issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>The world is facing many, often overlapping, crises including financial, security, environmental and other socio-economic challenges hindering the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals. Investing in and partnering with youth is key to addressing these challenges in a sustainable manner.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Under the theme Dialogue and Mutual Understanding, the International Year of Youth aims to promote the ideals of peace, respect for human rights and solidarity across generations, cultures, religions and civilizations. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:68.1pt;background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Small exhibition at VDIC provides brief information on this topic. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;tab-stops:68.1pt; background:#CCFFFF'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'><a href="#_top"><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Back to top</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;tab-stops:68.1pt; background:#CCFFFF'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:3'> <td width=685 valign=top style='width:513.8pt;border:solid navy 3.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid navy 3.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#33CCCC'><a name="_Toc268590930"></a><a name="_Toc192156838"></a><a name="_Toc163040072"></a><a name="_Toc130022853"></a><a name="_Toc129762545"></a><a name="_Toc129691325"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc129762545'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc130022853'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc163040072'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc192156838'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc268590930'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:blue'>Library</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></h1> <p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993300'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993300'>For more information about VDIC library services and resources, please visit <a href="http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=library&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=354&amp;mid=322">http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=library&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=354&amp;mid=322</a> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993300'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p> <h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a name="_Toc268590931"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'>Free access to FAO database contributes to sustainable development</span></a><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>FAO is granting free and open access to its central data repository, FAOSTAT, the world's largest and most comprehensive statistical database on food, agriculture, and hunger.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>FAOSTAT contains over one million data points covering 210 countries and territories and can be accessed at <a href="http://faostat.fao.org/">http://faostat.fao.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a name="_Toc268590932"></a><a name="_Toc192156840"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc268590932'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'>Highlights from the New Resources to VDIC Library</span></span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:#993300'>Full list of new additions to VDIC library can be found at </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=library&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=161&amp;mid=322&amp;cmid=325">http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=library&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=161&amp;mid=322&amp;cmid=325</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>BAN-INV-V [Internet]. World Bank; IFC. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Investing Across Borders 2010: Indicators of foreign direct investment regulation in 87 economies</b>. World Bank, 2010. Full text http://iab.worldbank.org/ <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>BAN-MON-V3. Capannelli, Giovanni (ed.); Menon, Jayant (ed.). <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Dealing with Multiple Currencies in Transitional Economies: The Scope for Regional Cooperation in Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, and Viet Nam</b>. Asian Development Bank (ADB), 2010. Full text http://www.adb.org/documents/books/dealing-with-currencies/<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>ECO-EVA 20. Khandker, Shahidur R.; Koolwal, Gayatri B.; Samad, Hussain A.. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>C©m nang ánh giá tác Ùng: Các ph°¡ng pháp Ënh l°ãng và thñc hành</b>. Ngân hàng Th¿ giÛi, 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>EDU-ECO 7. Dang, Thi Thanh Huyen. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Education financial planning in Asia: implementing medium-term expenditure frameworks: Viet Nam</b>. UNESCO Bangkok, 2009. <a href="http://www.unescobkk.org/no_cache/vi/information-resources/e-library/resources/article/education-financial-planning-in-asia-implementing-medium-term-expenditure-frameworks-viet-nam/">Full text</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>ENV-MAN-V5. HÙi b£o vÇ Thiên nhiên và Môi tr°Ýng ViÇt Nam. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Ph£n biÇn xã hÙi vÁ b£o vÇ thiên nhiên và môi tr°Ýng</b>. Nhà xu¥t b£n Khoa hÍc và Kù thu­t, 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>GOV-CIV-V8. Dñ án Sáng ki¿n Chính sách Y t¿ ViÇt Nam. Ch°¡ng trình PhÑi hãp cça Liên hãp quÑc vÁ HIV/AIDS. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Thành l­p và ng ký t° cách pháp nhân: Tài liÇu tham kh£o cho nhóm tñ lñc và nhóm h× trã</b>. Nhà xu¥t b£n T° pháp, 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>GOV-CIV-V8. Health Policy Initiative Vietnam. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Establishment and registration of legal entities: A reference handbook for self-help groups and support groups</b>. Judicial Publishing House, 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>POV-RUR-V19. Oxfam GB; ActionAid. <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Participatory poverty monitoring in rural communities in Vietnam: Synthesis report Round 3 - 2009</b>. Oxfam GB; ActionAid, 2010. <a href="http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/economic_crisis/downloads/poverty_monitoring_rural_third_round_vietnam.pdf">Full text</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>POV-RUR-V19. Oxfam GB; ActionAid<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>. Theo dõi nghèo theo ph°¡ng pháp cùng tham gia t¡i mÙt sÑ cÙng Óng dân c° nông thôn ViÇt Nam : Báo cáo tÕng hãp vòng 3 nm 2009</b>. Oxfam GB; ActionAid, 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a name="_Toc268590933"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'>Highlights of some new academic papers on development issues in Vietnam</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Please visit <a href="http://www.vdic.org.vn/data/File/Library/New-academic-papers-on-Vietnam-2010.pdf">http://www.vdic.org.vn/data/File/Library/New-academic-papers-on-Vietnam-2010.pdf</a> for more comprehensive list. Send an email to <a href="mailto:nvu2@worldbank.org">nvu2@worldbank.org</a> for article full text, if available.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>A scenario for Sustainable Low-carbon Development in Vietnam towards 2030</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>. NGUYEN Thai Hoa, Kei GOMI and Yuzuru MATSUOKA. Paper prepared for the 16th annual International Sustainable Research Conference 2010, 30 May - 1 June 2010, Hong Kong. Abstract: Climate change is no longer a warning and it currently has happened all over the world in which Vietnam  one of the poor countries would be the most seriously affected. To prevent such serious damage, socio-economic development must go hand in hand with low-carbon society s development. Vietnam has experienced unpredictable socio-economic growth which expected more rapid development in coming time. Therefore, developing a low-carbon society toward 2030 in Vietnam is very necessary at this moment. A low carbon society for Vietnam is carried out for the following main sectors, namely: residential, commercial, industrial, passenger and freight transportation. Base on the projection of the development, with a tool named Extend Snapshot Tool (ExSS), we estimated the amount of GHG emissions in two scenarios (1) 2030 BaU (Business as Usual-without mitigation measures) which country develops as usual and (2) 2030 CM (With Counter Mitigation measures) which includes assumptions of employed innovation technologies as well as adopted of low-carbon measures available by 2030 to reduce the GHG emissions. The total GHG emissions in 2005 are approximately 80.9 million t-CO2 and per capital emission is 0.97 t-CO2. Under the 2030 BaU scenario, these emissions increase about 5.5 times higher than 2005 and per capital emission also surge up to 4.5 t-CO2. However, in the 2030 CM scenario, by adopting the available mitigation options, the emissions can be decreased approximately 45% compare to 2030 BaU scenario and suppressed to 250 million t-CO2. Moreover, emission per capital reduces to 2.5 t-CO2. The potential of GHG mitigation by applying several measures such as diffusion of low carbon technologies, promoting energy efficient and fuel switch in all sectors, increased use of public transport and renewable energy is 196.3 million t-CO2. A comprehensive policy and five concrete actions to lead the implementation of the measures are also introduced in this research. Free full text http://www.kadinst.hku.hk/sdconf10/Papers_PDF/p348.pdf.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Characterization of Heavy Metal Contamination from their Spatial Distributions in Sediment of an Urban Lake of Hanoi, Vietnam</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>. Tetsuro KIKUCHI, Huynh Trung HAI and Shuzo TANAKA. Journal of Water and Environment Technology Vol. 8 (2010) , No. 2 pp.111-123. Abstract: Ho Tay (West Lake) in Hanoi, Vietnam receives wastewater from the city center and the surrounding residential areas, which can cause both eutrophication and enrichment of toxic heavy metals in the lake ecosystem. The aim of this study is to evaluate the recent trends of metal contamination in this lake from their spatial (horizontal and vertical) distributions in the lake sediments. Sediment cores with up to 70 cm in depth were sampled from four locations in the lake and analyzed for heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn) including a metalloid (As) and total organic carbon (TOC). High concentrations of the metals (except for Mn) and TOC have accumulated in sediment at the site where an inlet of sewage from the city center was located nearby. Increasing trends of the metal contents in the sediment profile toward the surface at the sites distant from the sewage inlets imply that the loads of these metals into this lake have been continuously increasing. In addition, Pb isotopic ratios in sediment profile could be used as an indicator of anthropogenic Pb pollution in the lake. Free full text http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jwet/8/2/8_111/_article.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Checks and Balances Regime: A Precondition for the sucessful Development of a Rule of Law State in Vietnam</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>. Le Van Cam. Zbornik PFZ, 60, (3-4) 893-905 (2010). Abstract: The author reviews the checks and balances system as a precondition for the successful development of a rule of law state in Vietnam. Apart from the general considerations of the definition of the rule of law and its principles, the author gives a theoretical analysis of the functioning of the checks and balances regime in the rule of law state, their most important characteristics and also emphasises the consequences of a governmental system devoid of checks and balances. The main conclusion reached is that the system of checks and balances is necessary for the creation of the  rule of law state and that its development is never successful without the creation of an effective and practical state-power check regime through the public system to ensure the balance of the three powers (legislative, executive, and judicial). Full text available upon request.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Deploying Renewables in Southeast Asia: Trends and potentials</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>. Samantha Ölz, Milou Beerepoot. OECD/IEA working paper, 2010. Abstract: This paper is part of the IEA ongoing analysis of global renewable energy markets and policies. It focuses on six Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The report investigates the potentials and barriers for scaling up market penetration of renewable energy technologies in the electricity, heating and transport sectors in the six countries. In addition to analysing the implications of effective policies on renewable energy market growth, it examines how to overcome economic and non-economic barriers that slow investment in renewable energy, and offers policy recommendations to encourage effective and efficient exploitation of renewable energy in Southeast Asia. Free full text http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/content/workingpaper/5kmd4xs1jtmr-en.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) as a vehicle for transformation to sustainable citrus production in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>. Oleg Nicetic, Elske van de Fliert, Ho Van Chien, Vo Mai and Le Cuong. Paper prepared for the 9th European IFSA Symposium, 4</span><span style='font-size: 9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>7 </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>July 2010, Vienna (Austria). Abstract: Pressure from the emerging Vietnamese middle class for access to  safe food has prompted changes in the traditional food supply chain from: individual farmer </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>’!</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'> middle man </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>’!</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'> tradi&#1048991;</span><span style='font-size: 9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>onal markets (formal, informal and hawkers) to: farmers organised in cooperatives or less formal farmer groups </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>’!</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'> supermarkets. This process has gained significant government support resulting in the introduction of policies and support for  safe vegetable production and recently the establi</span><span style='font-size: 9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>shment of Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practice (VietGAP) standards. VietGAP is a government decree laying out the principles for sustainable and safe agricultural production supported by certification and auditing systems. These consumer driven market transformations together with government policies has increased the pressure on farmers to adopt more sustainable production practices. This paper examines GAP as a framework to secure food safety and sustainable production, and farmer field schools (FFSs) as a platform for GAP learning and establishment of GAP collective action and practices under specific Vietnamese smallholder conditions where the GAP process is strongly driven by government. Our results indicate that a participatory approach to GAP implementation resulted in successful joint government</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Cambria Math"'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>private sector intervention in citrus production. It is, however, too early to draw conclusions about the sustainability of GAP certification since the economic benefits for the GAP certified farmers in compa</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>rison to non</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Cambria Math"'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>certified farmers are not yet clear. Regardless of the sustainability of GAP certification, improvements in economic, social, human and environmental capital as a result of citrus FFSs conducted in the GAP implementation process will have long</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> term positive effects on sustainable citrus production in the Mekong Delta. Free full text http://ifsa.boku.ac.at/cms/fileadmin/Proceeding2010/2010_WS4.4_Nicetic.pdf.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Tax Issues for Distribution Companies In Vietnam</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>. Donald Wilson, Dion Thai. TAX NOTES INTERNATIONAL. 2010, VOL 57; NUMB 12, pages 1073-1076. Abstract: Vietnam entered the ranks of middle income countries by surpassing USD 1,000 per capita in 2009 and has been one of the best performing economies in the world over the last decade. Increased urbanization of Vietnam s 86 million people, combined with the favorable demographics of a young population, has helped create an increasingly affluent consumer market. Many global companies are interested in entering the Vietnamese market or in expanding sales and distribution channels. Although doing business in Vietnam has become easier in recent years, government approvals can still be time consuming and sometimes frustrating. This article discusses some of the tax issues associated with setting up distribution operations in Vietnam. Full text available upon request. Fee may apply. Free full text from Deloitte World Tax Advisor 19 Feb 2010 http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-Global/Local%20Assets/Documents/Tax/Newsletters/dtt_tax_worldtaxadvisor_100219.pdf.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Blurred Boundaries of Voluntary Resettlement: A Case of Cat Tien National Park in Vietnam</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>. Jason Morris-Jung; Robin Roth. JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>2010, VOL 29; NUMBER 2-4, pages 202-220. Abstract: The voluntary resettlement of people from national parks has emerged as a potential solution to long entrenched people-park conflicts. Yet critical examination of its associated policy and practice is rare. After identifying a trend toward voluntary resettlement in policy and practice, this article examines a resettlement project at Cat Tien National Park in Vietnam. An analysis of the agreement and negotiation processes with local communities reveals that genuine efforts and organizational commitments to voluntary resettlement can take on qualities associated with forced relocations. The Cat Tien National Park Conservation Project, supported by a major international conservation organization, operated on a principle of voluntary agreements while also applying international resettlement standards based on the World Bank's safeguard policies for involuntary resettlement. This apparent confusion in policy was further reflected in practice with the safeguard policies perversely reinforcing, rather than alleviating, involuntary aspects of the project. This article recognizes the potential of voluntary resettlement as an equitable conservation tool, but warns against applying it as an inconspicuous solution to the problems generally associated with involuntary resettlement. Distinctions between voluntary and involuntary resettlement are ambiguous at best; resettlement policy and guidelines need to reflect and clarify this ambiguity. Full text http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a923043497.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Dynamics of Urban Agriculture in Hanoi, Vietnam</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>. Brody Lee, Tony Binns and Alan B Dixon. Field ACTions Science Reports. 2010 Special Issue 1 - Urban Agriculture. Abstract: In many developing countries, urban agriculture makes a significant contribution to the livelihoods of urban populations, in providing food security and income generation. In Hanoi, Vietnam s capital city, urban agriculture is a longstanding feature, but rapid urban growth is leading to greater competition over land use, such that this practice is being increasingly threatened by conversion to non-agricultural urban uses.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The quality and safety of foodstuffs grown in urban areas is of growing concern to both consumers and producers in developing country cities such as Hanoi, where a large share of the city s food supply is grown within the urban area. Government support has encouraged urban producers to modernize and invest in safer growing practices. However, in Hanoi, as indeed elsewhere, there is an urgent need to recognise the significance of urban agriculture in future planning strategies. Drawing upon recent field-based research in Hanoi, which examined local actors knowledge and perceptions of changes in urban agriculture within the city, the paper identifies key trends and underlying environmental and socio-economic factors, and considers the future sustainability of the practice. Free full text http://factsreports.revues.org/index464.html. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The People's Credit Funds of Vietnam: A prudentially regulated credit cooperative movement</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>. Authors: Seibel, Hans Dieter; Tam, Nguyen Thac. Source: Enterprise Development and Microfinance, Volume 21, Number 2, June 2010 , pp. 137-153(17). Abstract: Emerging from the collapse of its command economy, Vietnam succeeded in creating a conducive policy environment and building a strong new credit cooperative system. The government benefited from the experience of other countries but replicated none. Instead it came up with an innovation: cooperative self-help under state control, seemingly a contradiction. The newly established People's Credit Funds (PCFs) are self-managed and self-financed; yet their success is due to the central bank designing the new system, preparing its regulatory framework, providing training and supervision and enforcing prudential standards, while abstaining from undue interference. Regulation and supervision have been the state's instruments for assuring good performance, avoiding the disaster of the previous credit cooperative sector. The network overall has proved resilient during the global crisis, but with some differences between the rural PCFs and their central fund, which in addition to liquidity exchange also provides retail services in urban areas. 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text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>æy ban Tng tr°ßng và Phát triÃn, 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Giá tiÁn: 2 USD<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- T¡i sao nng su¥t ß thành phÑ l¡i cao h¡n?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- ô thË hóa là nguyên nhân thúc ©y tng tr°ßng hay tng tr°ßng là nguyên nhân thúc ©y ô thË hóa?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- Các quÑc gia ¡t °ãc tÑc Ù tng tr°ßng nhanh hay thu nh­p cao mà không c§n ô thË hóa hay không?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- Các nhà ho¡ch Ënh chính sách làm th¿ nào à g·t hái lãi ích cça ô thË hóa mà không ph£i tr£ giá quá cao?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- LiÇu h× trã quá trình ô thË hóa có ngh)a là coi nh¹ khu vñc nông thôn hay không?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- T¡i sao chÉ có chính phç mÙt sÑ n°Ûc hoan nghênh ô thË hóa?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- Chính phç các n°Ûc c§n làm gì à c£i thiÇn iÁu kiÇn vÁ nhà ß ß các thành phÑ trong khi ô thË hóa?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- Nhïng Õi mÛi trong chính sách cung c¥p các tài chính à phát triÃn nhà ß là tÑt hay x¥u<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Ñi vÛi các quÑc gia ang phát triÃn?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- Chính phç các n°Ûc s½ làm th¿ nào à c¥p hàng nghìn t÷ ôla tiÁn vÑn à §u t° h¡ t§ng c§n thi¿t cho các thành phÑ ß các quÑc gia ang phát triÃn?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Là cuÑn §u tiên trong bÙ báo cáo chuyên Á, cuÑn sách này °ãc biên so¡n theo yêu c§u cça æy ban vÁ Tng tr°ßng và Phát triÃn nh±m ánh giá méc Ù hiÃu bi¿t vÁ mÑi quan hÇ giïa ô thË hóa và tng tr°ßng kinh t¿. Báo cáo này không nh±m måc ích cung c¥p t¥t c£ các câu tr£ lÝi, mà nh±m xác Ënh các v¥n Á và òn b§y chính sách à giúp các quÑc gia lÓng ghép ô thË hóa thành mÙt ph§n cça chi¿n l°ãc tng tr°ßng quÑc gia. Báo cáo này nghiên céu mÙt lo¡t các Á tài nh°: tính thích hãp và ý ngh)a chính sách cça nhïng ti¿n bÙ g§n ây trong nghiên céu kinh t¿ hÍc ô thË hóa cho các quÑc gia ang phát triÃn, vai trò cça Ëa kinh t¿ trong xu h°Ûng kinh t¿ và mô hình th°¡ng m¡i toàn c§u, tác Ùng cça quá trình ô thË hóa Ñi vÛi sñ b¥t bình ³ng giïa các vùng trong mÙt quÑc gia, và các ph°¡ng pháp ti¿p c­n khác trong viÇc c¥p vÑn §u t° h¡ t§ng c¡ b£n c§n thi¿t cho các thành phÑ ß các quÑc gia ang phát triÃn.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>°ãc vi¿t bßi các chuyên gia hàng §u trong các l)nh vñc có liên quan, báo cáo ô thË hóa và Tng tr°ßng cÑ g¯ng à hiÃu rõ h¡n vai trò cça ô thË hóa trong quá trình tng tr°ßng và cung c¥p cho các nhà ho¡ch Ënh chính sách thông tin à Ñi phó vÛi nhïng thách théc to lÛn mà quá trình này °a ra.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>Unlocking Land Values to Finance Urban Infrastructure<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>ISBN: 978-0-8213-8329-2 -- by World Bank 2010 June<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Price: $13.00 <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Land-based financing of urban infrastructure is growing in importance in the developing world. Why is it so difficult to finance urban infrastructure investment, when land values typically increase by more than the cost of investment? Unlocking Land Values to Finance Urban Infrastructure examines the theory underlying different instruments of land-based finance, such as betterment levies, developer exactions, impact fees, and the exchange of publicly owned land assets for infrastructure. It provides a wealth of case-study illustrations of how different land-based financing tools have been implemented, and the lessons learned from these experiences. This practical guide is designed to help expand the role of land-based financing in urban capital budgets in a way that strengthens urban infrastructure finance and urban land markets.  <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>This study shows that a rethinking of traditional approaches to urban finance in developing countries is necessary. It discusses why this potential source of revenue has been largely overlooked by analysts from developed countries, as well as why much greater attention should be paid to these transactions. This book is written in a lively, accessible style without sacrificing analytical rigor</i>.  Robert Buckley, Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation  <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>A grand magnitude of financing in infrastructure can be obtained from unlocking land values. Dr Peterson presents a deep and often innovative analysis. This book will be a great resource for an unusually broad audience from international consultants to national and municipal officials</i>.  Olga Kaganova, Coeditor, Managing Property Assets: International Experiences, and Senior Associate, Urban Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>A Practical Approach to Pharmaceutical Policy <span style='mso-tab-count: 1'>     </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>ISBN: 978-0-8213-8386-5 -- by World Bank 2010 June<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Price: $13.00 <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>This book offers policy makers a hands-on approach, tested in the World Bank s field work in many countries, for developing policies that improve access to safe, effective medicines in health systems of low- and middle-income economies.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>Innovation Policy: A Guide for Developing Countries <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>       </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>ISBN: 978-0-8213-8269-1 -- by<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>World Bank 2010 May<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Price: $17.00 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Innovation in all its forms and particularly technological innovation in recent years has become a crucial driver for spurring growth, enhancing competitiveness, and increasing social well being in all economies of the world. Innovation should be understood in a broad and diversified sense including not only the creation of new knowledge and technology and the adaptation of existing ones, but even more importantly, the diffusion and use of technologies, products, processes, and practices which are new in a given country context  a definition that is particularly relevant for low- and medium- income countries. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Innovation policy, by its very nature, is an inter- or multi-departmental policy, touching policy areas as complementary and different as education and training, skills development, science and technology, the business environment, ICT and other infrastructure (e.g. logistics). This guidebook therefore necessarily draws upon a large and diversified set of policy areas as sources of knowledge and competence in order to provide a holistic discussion of innovation policy. It offers a broad methodological framework into which concerned policy making communities can design, conceive and implement policy measures adapted to their context. The framework would provide some fundamental principles which can then be applied and customized for specific circumstances. In order to foster a coherent and systemic approach to the design of innovation policy, this book integrates the analysis and information from policy-related departments that usually tend to work in silos and who need to work together for having a common, relevant and efficient understanding of innovation policy. In light of a key issue in low and medium income countries is the resistance of innovation systems to significant improvements, this book also addresses the relations between innovation policy and institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>Business Regulation and Economic Performance<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>ISBN: 978-0-8213-7407-8 -- by World Bank 2010 January<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Price: $18.00 <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>&quot;The Schumpeterian process of  creative destruction is an essential ingredient of a dynamic economy. In many countries around the world, however, this process is weakened by pervasive regulation of product and factor markets. This book documents the regulatory obstacles faced by firms, particularly in developing countries, and assesses their implications for firm renewal and macroeconomic performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Combining a variety of methodological approaches -- analytical and empirical, micro and macroeconomic, single- and cross-country --, the book provides evidence that streamlining the regulatory framework would have a significant social pay-off, particularly in developing countries that are also burdened by weak governance. The book s chapters trace out analytically and empirically the links between microeconomic policies and distortions, on the one hand, and aggregate performance in terms of productivity, growth and volatility, on the other.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>The volume adds to a novel but increasingly influential literature that seeks to understand macroeconomic phenomena from a microeconomic perspective, and derive the relevant lessons for development policy. Such literature is still fairly scarce in the case of industrial countries, and virtually in its infancy for developing countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Endorsements:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>&quot;<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>To the benefit of interest groups, most of the large costs associated with excessive business regulation remain hidden in the complexities of the ongoing process of restructuring. Business Regulation and Economic Performance does a great service to all of us by unearthing some of these costs with a convincing array of cross-sectional evidence. A must-read for policy makers, especially in heavily regulated regions such as Latin America</i>.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;background:#CCFFFF; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- Ricardo Caballero, Chairman and Ford International Professor,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;background:#CCFFFF; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>&quot;<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Despite greater macroeconomic stability and increased openness to trade and investment, many developing countries have failed to thrive. This original study links microeconomic regulation to aggregate measures of growth, productivity, and volatility to explain the poor performance of emerging economies around the world, and especially in Latin America. The authors convincingly show that excessive regulation of business and labor has led to adverse macro performance. Stringent regulations perform a double punch. First, they prevent resources from moving to their most productive uses and economies from adjusting to external shocks. Second, they provide insidious incentives for rent seeking to the relevant authorities, especially when governance is weak. Business Regulation and Economic Performance is essential reading for policy makers seeking to improve growth and stability in developing countries</i>.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;background:#CCFFFF; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- Simeon Djankov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Bulgaria, and<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;background:#CCFFFF; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>former lead author of Doing Business, The World Bank &quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>Equity and Growth in a Globalizing World <span style='mso-tab-count: 1'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>ISBN: 978-0-8213-8180-9 -- by World Bank 2010 May<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Price: $17.00 <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- What has been the evolution of poverty and equity during the recent globalizing decades? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- How have poor countries fared on the Millennium Development Goals? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- What role does wealth inequality play in the level and efficiency of investment and, hence, in economic growth? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- Is gender equity a smart pro-growth strategy as well as a pro-poor one? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- How is equality different from equality of opportunity, and should policy makers pursue one, the other, or both? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- In formulating distributional strategies, should the middle class be integrally considered, or should the focus be entirely on the poorest of the poor? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- What are the precise impacts of globalization on poverty and equity, and what are the policy implications of these impacts? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- Is the problem with globalization that a key element is missing the globalization of labor employment? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- What is the role of international migration in the evolution of equity within and between nations? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>This book has been prepared for the Commission on Growth and Development to evaluate the state of knowledge on the relationship between poverty, equity, and globalization. It considers a range of questions on poverty and equity within nations, and the policy frameworks that can best address distributional concerns as the basis for a growth strategy. It also examines the important issue of equity between nations, in particular the possible role of international migration in alleviating this inequity. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Written by prominent analysts in their fields, Equity and Growth in a Globalizing World seeks to create a better understanding of the interactions between globalization, growth, and different dimensions of equity and poverty, and to inform policy makers of possible policy levers to address central concerns in the debates in this area.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>C©m nang ánh giá tác Ùng: Các ph°¡ng pháp Ënh l°ãng và thñc hành</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Khandker, Shahidur R.; Koolwal, Gayatri B.; Samad, Hussain A.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Ngân hàng Th¿ giÛi, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Giá tiÁn: 2 USD<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>C©m nang ánh giá tác Ùng giÛi thiÇu mÙt cách thñc tiÅn và toàn diÇn các ph°¡ng pháp mÛi nh¥t trong ánh giá các ch°¡ng trình công ích, h°Ûng ¿n Ñi t°ãng là các nhà nghiên céu cing nh° ho¡ch Ënh chính sách. CuÑn sách liên k¿t nhïng nghiên céu toán kinh t¿ mÛi nh¥t vÁ ánh giá tác Ùng vÛi kinh nghiÇm thñc t¿ cça các nhà qu£n lý và ng°Ýi ánh giá ch°¡ng trình cing nh° nhïng ph°¡ng pháp kh£o sát tác Ùng phân bÕ và c¥u trúc cça ch°¡ng trình.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Các ph§n th£o lu­n và nghiên céu iÃm °ãc trình bày ß tëng ch°¡ng, úc rút kinh nghiÇm thñc t¿ cça các nhà qu£n lý và ng°Ýi nghiên céu ch°¡ng trình trong quá trình triÃn khai các m·t ho¡t Ùng nh° chính sách vÁ giáo dåc, tài chính vi mô, y t¿ và h¡ t§ng. Ñi vÛi ng°Ýi nghiên céu muÑn hÍc hÏi cách théc sí dång nhïng mô hình này b±ng ph§n mÁm thÑng kê, cuÑn C©m nang còn cung c¥p các bài t­p Stata vÛi tình huÑng ánh giá các ch°¡ng trình tín dång vi mô lÛn ß Bnglaét, nh° ch°¡ng trình cça ngân hang Grameen.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>CuÑn C©m nang cing °ãc sí dång trong các khóa hÍc vÁ chính sách và kinh t¿ ß c¥p cao, cing nh° làm tài liÇu bÕ sung trong các khóa hÍc kinh t¿ hÍc phát triÃn c¥p ¡i hÍc. CuÑn C©m nang<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>s½ có ích cho sinh viên, nhà nghiên céu và các c¥p ho¡ch Ënh chính sách.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>Nhïng gi£i pháp tiÇn lãi gi£i quy¿t thñc t¿ phiÁn phéc: Cách ti¿p c­n dña vào hÇ sinh thái à gi£i quy¿t v¥n Á bi¿n Õi khí h­u<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Ngân hàng Th¿ giÛi, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Giá tiÁn: 2 USD<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Nhïng gi£i pháp tiÇn lãi à gi£i quy¿t thñc t¿ phiÁn phéc ã trình bày lu­n cé thuy¿t phåc cho th¥y b£o tÓn tính a d¡ng sinh hÍc, b£o vÇ các hÇ sinh thái và khu/vùng c° trú tñ nhiên có thà góp ph§n thñc hiÇn hiÇu qu£ các chi¿n l°ãc gi£m phát th£i và thích éng à gi£i quy¿t các v¥n Á vÁ bi¿n Õi khí h­u.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Thích éng dña vào hÇ sinh thái là gi£i pháp dña trên nguyên t¯c win-win: nó Óng thÝi gi£i quy¿t thách théc cça bi¿n Õi khí h­u và b£o vÇ a d¡ng sinh hÍc và nhïng dËch vå mà các hÇ sinh thái cung c¥p, là nhïng y¿u tÑ ·c biÇt quan trÍng Ñi vÛi sñ sinh tÓn cça loài ng°Ýi. Các c¡ quan phát triÃn, các quÑc gia và các Công °Ûc vÁ a d¡ng sinh hÍc và bi¿n Õi khí h­u c§n ph£i thëa nh­n r±ng b£o tÓn và phåc hÓi các hÇ sinh thái là cách ti¿p c­n có trách nhiÇm vÛi xã hÙi và có tính chi phí  hiÇu qu£ cao à gi£i quy¿t Óng thÝi c£ måc tiêu gi£m phát th£i và måc tiêu thích éng vÛi bi¿n Õi khí h­u trong khi v«n £m b£o cung c¥p cho cÙng Óng nhïng dËch vå sinh thái quan trÍng và thi¿t y¿u Ñi vÛi sñ thËnh v°ãng cça loài ng°Ýi</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;background:#CCFFFF; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- Robert Watson<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;background:#CCFFFF; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>CÑ v¥n tr°ßng vÁ khoa hÍc, Cåc Môi tr°Ýng, Thñc ph©m và Các v¥n Á vÁ Nông thôn, V°¡ng quÑc Anh và Giáo s° vÁ khoa hÍc môi tr°Ýng, Giám Ñc Ban chi¿n l°ãc, ¡i hÍc East Anglia, V°¡ng quÑc Anh<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Chúng ta ph£i luôn nhÛ r±ng £m b£o an toàn và phåc hÓi tính a d¡ng sinh hÍc và các hÇ sinh thái là ph°¡ng théc quan trÍng và có tính chi phí  hiÇu qu£ cao nh¥t à gi£m nh¹ tác Ùng cça bi¿n Õi khí h­u và gi£m tính dÅ bË tÕn th°¡ng cça chúng ta tr°Ûc nhïng tác Ùng không thà tránh khÏi gây bßi bi¿n Õi khí h­u. CuÑn sách này ã chÉ ra ví då r¥t thuy¿t phåc chéng minh vai trò trung tâm cça viÇc qu£n lý các hÇ sinh thái à Õi phó vÛi bi¿n Õi khí h­u. ây là cuÑn sách c¥n thi¿t Ñi vÛi nhïng ng°Ýi tham gia xây dñng chính sách, nghiên céu và triÃn khai</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;background:#CCFFFF; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- Richard Cowling  Giáo s° vÁ thñc v­t hÍc, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;background:#CCFFFF; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Tr°Ýng ¡i hÍc Thành phÑ Nelson Mandela, Port Elizabeth, Nam Phi<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Óng thÝi vÛi viÇc hiÃu bi¿t sâu rÙng h¡n vÁ nhïng tác Ùng phÕ bi¿n cça bi¿n Õi khí h­u do chính con ng°Ýi t¡o ra, chúng ta cáng nh­n théc rõ h¡n vÁ t§m quan trÍng<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>hàng §u cça các mÑi liên hÇ g¯n k¿t ch·t ch½ l«n nhau giïa a d¡ng sinh hÍc, các dËch vå sinh thái và gi£m thiÃu thích éng vÛi bi¿n Õi khí h­u không thà tiên liÇu °ãc thì chúng ta c§n ph£i t­n dång t¥t c£ các nguÓn tài nguyên sµn có, bao gÓm các nguÓn tài nguyên mà thiên nhiên em l¡i nh° tính a d¡ng vÁ gene, vÁ loài và vÁ hÇ sinh thái. G¯n k¿t nhïng thách théc hai m·t liên quan ¿n c£ bi¿n Õi khí h­u và m¥t tính a d¡ng sinh hÍc là cách ti¿p c­n không thà thi¿u °ãc nh±m ¡t °ãc các måc tiêu trong ã Á ra ß HÙi nghË Rio</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;background:#CCFFFF; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>- Ahmed Djoghlaf  Giám Ñc iÁu hành, Ban th° ký Công °Ûc a d¡ng sinh hÍc, Montreal, Ca-na-a<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>Eco2 Cities: Ecological Cities as Economic Cities <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>by Hiroaki Suzaki , Arish Dastur , Sebastian Moffatt , Nanae Yabuki , Hinako Maruyama<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Published May 2010 by World Bank ISBN: 0-8213-8046-X<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Price: $ 15.00 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>This is a point of departure for cities that would like to reap the many benefits of ecological and economic sustainability. It provides an analytical and operational framework that offers strategic guidance to cities on sustainable and integrated urban development. At the same time case studies are used throughout the book to provide a matter-of-fact and ground-level perspective. This framework is flexible and easily customized to the context of each country or city. Based on the particular circumstances and the development priorities of a city  the application of the framework can contribute to the development of a unique action plan or roadmap in each case. This action plan can be triggered through catalyst projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>To support this framework, it also begins to introduce some powerful and practical methods and tools that can further enable sustainable and integrated city planning and decision making. These include 1) operational and process methods that can strengthen collaborative decision making and cross-sector synergies in a city; 2) analytical methods ranging from diagnostics, simulation, design and scenario-generation; and 3) accounting and benchmarking methods which can help clarify, define and measure what it means to truly invest in sustainability and resilience.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCFFFF;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>As additional reference reading, it also features a series of case studies from best practice cities around the world, each demonstrating a very different dimension of the Eco2 approach. It also features a series of infrastructure sector notes (on spatial development, transport, energy, water and waste management), each of which explore sector specific issues as they pertain to urban development, and the many opportunities for coordination and integration across sectors.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;background:#CCFFFF; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><a href="#_top">Back to top</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;background:#CCFFFF; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:5'> <td width=685 valign=top style='width:513.8pt;border:solid navy 3.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid navy 3.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:#33CCCC'><a name="_Toc268590935"></a><a name="_Toc249762975"></a><a name="_Toc202761661"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc249762975'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc268590935'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue'>Information on Development Projects in </span></span></span></a><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc268590935'><span style='mso-bookmark: _Toc249762975'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc202761661'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:blue'>Vietnam</span></span></span></span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></h1> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a name="_Toc268590936"></a><a name="_Toc249762976"></a><a name="_Toc202761662"><span style='mso-bookmark: _Toc249762976'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc268590936'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'>New Disclosure</span></span></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc202761662'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc249762976'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc268590936'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc202761662'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc249762976'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Toc268590936'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:green;font-style:normal'>World Bank Operational Project Documents for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></span></span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:green;font-style:normal'> <o:p></o:p></span></h2> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Disclosure Unit of the World Bank is responsible for the implementation and dissemination of documents relating to the World Bank s&nbsp;disclosure policy <a href="http://www1.worldbank.org/operations/disclosure/">http://www1.worldbank.org/operations/disclosure/</a>.&nbsp;On a regular basis, the Unit&nbsp;releases&nbsp;operational documents to the public through a network of Public Information Centers (PICs) worldwide. For assistance on disclosed documents, please contact one of the PICs at a location near you.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>For previous listings, please visit <a href="http://go.worldbank.org/QU93EOHWG1">http://go.worldbank.org/QU93EOHWG1</a>. Alternatively, you are welcome to visit VDIC or World Bank s mini Public Information Corners (mini-PICs) at your city/province libraries to view hard copies of World Bank project documents in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></st1:place>. List of mini-PICs in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></st1:place> can be found at <a href="http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=library&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=162&amp;&amp;mid=322&amp;cmid=327">http://www.vdic.org.vn/?name=library&amp;op=viewDetailNews&amp;id=162&amp;&amp;mid=322&amp;cmid=327</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>List of World Bank s projects in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></st1:place> and detail project information can be found at <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/vn">www.worldbank.org/vn</a> &gt;&gt; select  <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Projects &amp; Programs</i> .<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Vietnam  Trung Son Hydropower Development Project [Dñ án phát triÃn nhà máy thçy iÇn Trung S¡n]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Project ID: P084773<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Documents disclosed: Environmental assessment (Vol. 9 of 9) : Appendix A : environmental impact assessment of resettlement sites. (Báo cáo ánh giá môi tr°Ýng, t­p 9, phå låc A: Báo cáo ánh giá môi tr°Ýng t¡i khu vñc tái Ënh c°)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Full text <a href="http://go.worldbank.org/NJX29WRQC0">http://go.worldbank.org/NJX29WRQC0</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Vietnam - System Efficiency Improvement, Equitization and Renewables Project - Additional Financing Credit [Dñ án tng c°Ýng hiÇu qu£ cÕ ph§n hóa và nng l°ãng tái t¡o  Tín dång bÕ sung]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Project ID: P120540<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Documents disclosed: Project paper (Tài liÇu dñ án)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Full text <a href="http://go.worldbank.org/K5WQ5FK960">http://go.worldbank.org/K5WQ5FK960</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Vietnam - Project Preparation Technical Facility Project [H× trã kù thu­t và chu©n bË dñ án]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Project ID: P118610<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Documents disclosed: Project Appraisal Document (Tài liÇu th©m Ënh dñ án)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Full text <a href="http://go.worldbank.org/N26KIE2TD0">http://go.worldbank.org/N26KIE2TD0</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>Da Nang priority infrastructure investment project, phase 2 [Dñ án §u t° c¡ sß h¡ t§ng °u tiên thành phÑ à Nµng giai Ían II]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Project ID: P086508<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Documents disclosed: Environment Impact Assessment (Báo cáo ánh giá tác Ùng môi tr°Ýng)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana'>Full text <a href="http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=40941&amp;menuPK=228424&amp;Projectid=P086508">http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&amp;piPK=73230&amp;theSitePK=40941&amp;menuPK=228424&amp;Projectid=P086508</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; 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font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>SEED Awards 2010 - Call for Proposals<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Are you a start-up entrepreneur? Does your business or business idea integrate sustainable development, solving pressing social and environmental issues? Do you need support to help to establish and grow your enterprise?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>If you meet SEED s eligibility criteria, you could apply now for the 2010 SEED Awards for entrepreneurship in sustainable development.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Each SEED Award Winner will receive a package of tailored support services consisting of:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>" assistance and advice on developing and improving the initiative s business plan<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>" a two-day in-country business-oriented workshop, involving all partners, and covering the key elements and factors which help to build a successful social and environmental enterprise<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>" high-level profiling of the initiative nationally, regionally and internationally, often with government officials, Ministers, development institutions and businesses<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>" assistance with access to relevant institutions, organisations, businesses, and to SEED winners,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>and alumni, SEED Partners, SEED Supporters, and SEED Associates<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>" development of<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>a support plan <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>" a financial contribution of USD5000 towards implementation of certain item(s) in that support plan, as agreed between the winner and SEED.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The deadline for applications is 16th August 2010, 23:59 Central European Time (CET). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Apply online or download the application form from the SEED Initiative website at <a href="http://www.seedinit.org">www.seedinit.org</a>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>2011 Call for Proposals - Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues relating to the Second International Decade of the World's Indigenous People <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Trust Fund for the Second Decade was established to promote, support and implement the objectives of the Decade. The Fund will give priority to projects concerning the main areas of the Second Decade: culture, education, health, human Rights, the environment and social and economic development. The Advisory Group for the Trust Fund for the Second Decade consists of members of the Permanent Forum s Bureau. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Indigenous organizations or organizations working for indigenous peoples can apply for small grants from the Trust Fund. It is expected that the Fund will mainly be used for small grants projects with a budget for up to 10,000 US$ covering one year s expenses. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>2011 Call for Proposals<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Please note: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- Project must have a focus on indigenous peoples <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- All applicants must submit their project proposals in accordance with the Trust Fund Project Proposal Format and include both a summary sheet and a proposal document<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- Projects will be disregarded if the required information is not present. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- Additional information pertaining to the proposal will not be accepted beyond the deadline of submission (1 October 2010)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Guidelines to applicants for the Fund is available at <a href="http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/second_trustfund.html">http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/second_trustfund.html</a>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Fellowships and Awards <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Various fellowships and awards provided by IDRC, based in Canada, for researchers in developing countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-23261-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html">http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-23261-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Social Performance Reporting Awards for Microfinance Institutions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Social Performance Reporting Awards provide a yardstick for those wanting to assess an MFI s commitment not only to showing progress in helping its clients, but also to supporting its staff, and protecting the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>As such, the awards reward openness and accountability in reporting, not the actual performance of MFIs on these measures. More than 200 MFIs submitted reports on their social performance in 2009 to MIX and this number is expected to increase significantly in the second round of awards.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>To qualify, MFIs provide reports on a set of social performance monitoring indicators that have been developed and refined through the Social Performance Task Force in cooperation with industry leaders. One of the most important indicators is the degree to which MFIs are measuring the poverty level of their clients and which poverty-measurement tools they are using.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The awards feature three levels of recognition:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>CERTIFICATE: awarded to MFIs that complete the Social Performance Reporting Report <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>SILVER AWARD: awarded to MFIs that complete the report, and also provide full data on poverty measurement <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>GOLD AWARD: awarded to MFIs that complete the report, provide data on poverty measurement, and have a social rating that includes auditing of the poverty tool used by the MFI. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>An award will also be given to microfinance networks or associations that have more than 50 percent of their affiliates reporting on social performance to MIX.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>This year s winners will be recognized on the CGAP and MIX Web sites and at special events, with certificates to be awarded in two rounds between June and December 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The MFIs will have until September 30, 2010, to report their social performance data to MIX.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.cgap.org/p/site/c/template.rc/1.26.13416/">http://www.cgap.org/p/site/c/template.rc/1.26.13416/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Elsevier Foundation Program Guidelines - Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Elsevier Foundation supports the efforts of libraries to enhance the quality of life in developing countries by advancing knowledge in science, technology and medicine.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The Foundation provides one, two and three year grants to libraries in the developing countries and supporting organizations in the following areas:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- Programs to enhance library infrastructure, technology or information services in ways that significantly enhance their ability to make STM (scientific/social sciences, technical and medical) information available to those who need it -- researchers, clinicians, students, policymakers and the wider public. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- Programs that enhance or expand library information resources in the developing world through digitization or preservation of information that advances science, health, the environment, and indigenous knowledge.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- Training and education programs, for library staff, students or researchers, contributing to sustainable improvements in the library s capacity to provide STM information in the developing world.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>- Partnerships between libraries in the developing countries and institutions in the developed countries to provide technical assistance or training.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Developed country partner organizations include libraries, learned societies, universities, intergovernmental organizations and other non-profit organizations. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Awards must be submitted online via The Elsevier Foundation's online grant application proposal system between August 1st and September 15th.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.elsevierfoundation.org/ILDC%20guidelines.html">http://www.elsevierfoundation.org/ILDC%20guidelines.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Enter the 2010 CGAP Microfinance Photography Contest <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The 2010 CGAP Microfinance Photography Contest is open for entries. Submit your photos for the chance to win this year s prestigious award, and tell the world about microfinance. Winners receive considerable exposure the world over, and become part of a global community of professional and nonprofessional photographers who share a twin passion for photography and microfinance.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The CGAP Microfinance Photo Contest is open to all photographers at least 18 years of age, except the operational team of CGAP, the World Bank, and their immediate families.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline: before noon EST 15 September 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.cgap.org/p/site/c/template.rc/1.26.13701/">http://www.cgap.org/p/site/c/template.rc/1.26.13701/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Swiss Government scholarships for foreign students, 2010-2011<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Swiss government awards a range of scholarships to foreign students through the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS): university scholarships (Swiss universities and Federal Institutes of Technology), arts scholarships (schools of music and fine arts) and scholarships for universities of applied sciences. These scholarships provide graduates from all disciplines with the opportunity to pursue postgraduate studies or research in Switzerland at a public funded university or recognised institution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>If you fulfil the eligibility requirements, contact the Swiss diplomatic representation in your country of origin. The diplomatic representation will provide you with all the necessary information regarding the procedure including application forms and a list of required documentation.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>For Swiss Embassy contact in Hanoi, visit <a href="http://www.eda.admin.ch/hanoi">www.eda.admin.ch/hanoi</a>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.sbf.admin.ch/htm/themen/bildung/stipendien/eskas_laender/Vietnam_en.html">http://www.sbf.admin.ch/htm/themen/bildung/stipendien/eskas_laender/Vietnam_en.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>2010 Global Development Awards and Medals Competition - Channeling finance to sustainable development<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Global Development Awards and Medals Competition (AMC) is an innovative award scheme launched by GDN, with generous support from the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan and other donors. Since its inception in 2000, GDN has awarded roughly US$ 2 million in research and travel grants to finalists and winners. The awards encourage original research on theme based papers. Winners are chosen by an eminent jury at the final event. This event is also GDN s Annual Conference, with an audience of over 500 practitioners in the field of development to whom the finalists will present. This year, the Twelfth Annual Global Development Conference will be held in Bogota, Columbia in January 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Competition Categories:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>1. Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development - This award is for applicants submitting research proposals that are seeking to explore any of the three research themes in an original, innovative way. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Prizes: First Prize: US $30,000; Second Prize: US $5,000<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline: 18 October 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>2. Medals for Research on Development - These medals are for completed research papers of outstanding nature on any of the three research themes (details below).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Prizes: First Prize: US $10,000; Second prize: US $5,000<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline: 18 October 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>3. Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project (MIDP)  MIDP awards provide an opportunity to development projects being executed in the field to scale up their work though grants. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Prizes: First Prize: US $30,000; Second prize: US $5,000<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline: 9 September 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>For more information please visit <a href="http://www.gdnet.org/~2010awards">http://www.gdnet.org/~2010awards</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>- International Institute for Applied Systems Analyses (IIASA) <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>This annual three-month program offers research opportunities to talented young researchers whose interests correspond with IIASA's ongoing research on issues of global environmental, economic and social change. From June through August accepted participants work within the institute's Research Programs under the guidance of IIASA scientific staff. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline: Jan 18, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>View details at http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/YSP/index.html?sb=1 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Canada-Asia-Pacific Awards - International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Canada-Asia-Pacific Awards program will support scholars in universities or research institutes in the Asia-Pacific region to undertake short-term research, including collaborative research, contributing to the understanding of bilateral and multilateral relations between Canada and the Asia-Pacific Region.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Awards may be granted for research projects related to Canada and Asia-Pacific relations, either with the region as a whole, or any part thereof. Eligible topics will be within the areas of social sciences and the humanities, as well as some professional schools, such as business studies, economics, law, international relations, public administration, history, politics, sociology, geography, arts, literature, linguistics, education, communications policy, media studies, planning, science policy, social administration, environmental studies, architecture, and other related fields. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline: Nov 24, 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>View details at http://www.iccs-ciec.ca/CAPA_en.asp?shownav=4 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>ASIA Fellows Award - Asian Scholarship Foundation <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The principal goal of the ASIA Fellows Awards is to increase the overall awareness of intellectual resources in the countries of Northeast Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia and to contribute to the growth of long-range capabilities for cross-egional knowledge sharing. The ASIA Fellows Awards seek to develop regional expertise, establish a multilateral network of Asian specialists from many disciplines, professional fields and countries, stimulate interdisciplinary research and intersocietal comparison, and contribute to new developments within existing area studies communities. The awards offer opportunities for outstanding young and mid-career Asian scholars, and professionals to gain knowledge of the countries in the region and an understanding of the contexts that shape global and regional issues through research. The awards enable the awardees to conduct research in a participating Asian country for six to nine months. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline: Jan 15, 2011 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>View details at http://www.asianscholarship.org/asf/General%20information_Grant%20Information.php <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Abe Fellowship - Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline: April 1 and December 31 of a given year.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>View details at http://fellowships.ssrc.org/abe/detailed_app_criteria/ <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>INSEAD Syngenta Endowed Scholarship(s) for Emerging Country Leadership <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Syngenta is a world-leading agribusiness committed to sustainable agriculture through innovative research and technology. Since Syngenta strongly believes that talented people are the key to successful businesses they embrace INSEAD's mission to train the brightest and best from around the world for the challenge of tomorrow's business world. Syngenta is particularly committed to the dynamic emerging market regions and has therefore chosen to offer this scholarship opportunity to future leaders from emerging countries. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Two scholarships will be awarded per class and candidates for this scholarship will need to demonstrate: (a) outstanding academic achievement and promise (b) aptitude for business and financial management (c) leadership potential and (d) a commitment to contributing to their country or region at some point in the future. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Candidates must be a national of an emerging economy and have spent a substantial part of their lives in the developing world, in education and/or professional experience. Experience in industry will be considered a plus. Preference will be given to candidates who require proven financial assistance. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Scholarship Application Deadline:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>11 February for the July class<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>18 August for the December class <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>View details at http://mba.insead.edu/schlmgmt/dsp_schl_info.cfm?schlcode=EC01<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Heinrich Boll Foundation BS/MS/PhD Scholarships for International Students <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>2011 Applications to Heinrich Boll Foundation Scholarships is now open to international students around the globe especially students from developing countries. Pursue a Bachelors, Masters, or Doctoral Degree in selected fields of studies at German Universities. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Next deadline is 1 September 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.boell.de/scholarships/scholarships.html">http://www.boell.de/scholarships/scholarships.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Danish Ministry of Education Scholarship Scheme <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Danish Ministry of Education Scholarship Scheme is open to highly qualified candidates studying for Academy Profession degrees or Professional Bachelor s programmes. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Scholarships for students from outside the EU/EEA for studies at Academies of Professional Higher Education and University Colleges are administered by the individual institutions. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The scholarships can be given as full or partial tuition fee waivers and/or grants towards covering your living costs. However, as the scholarships are administered by the individual institution, you should enquire about the details at the institution you are interested in studying at. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://studyindenmark.dk/tuition-and-scholarships/scholarship-scheme">http://studyindenmark.dk/tuition-and-scholarships/scholarship-scheme</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>IFS Research Grants<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The IFS Granting Programme is open for project proposals from developing country scientists who meet the eligibility criteria and conduct research on the sustainable management of biological resources. An IFS Research Grant has a maximum value of USD 12,000. It is awarded to an individual researcher, for a specific research project, presented by the applicant in the application form. The IFS Research Grant is intended for the purchase of the basic tools needed to conduct the proposed research project - equipment, expendable supplies, and literature - and to arrange fieldwork activities related to the proposed project. It is expected that the IFS Grantees already receive a salary and are employed by or otherwise attached to a developing country research institution. The timeframe of a research project should normally be 1-3 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>An eligible candidate for an IFS Research grant is: -a citizen of a developing country -a scientist with at least a Master's or equivalent degree/research experience -under 40 years of age and at the beginning of research career (45 years in sub-Saharan Africa) -attached to a university, national research institution or a research-oriented NGO in a developing country.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Closing date: 30 December 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>More information is available at <a href="http://www.ifs.se/Forms/how_to_apply.asp">http://www.ifs.se/Forms/how_to_apply.asp</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>Fundraising for Women and Girls Worldwide<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.philantropia.org/">http://www.philantropia.org/</a> OR <a href="http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-838LB8?OpenDocument">http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-838LB8?OpenDocument</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>ICI Call For Proposal on Climate Protection Projects in developing, newly industrialising and transition countries<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) to launch the International Climate Initiative (ICI) in 2008. It strengthens Germany s bilateral cooperation with developing, newly industrialising and transition countries in the field of climate protection and supports the ongoing negotiation process for a comprehensive global climate agreement. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The International Climate Initiative supports climate protection projects in developing, newly industrialising and transition countries (&quot;partner countries&quot;) and complements the Federal Government's existing international, multi- and bilateral cooperation. The projects are geared towards the needs of the partner countries and are intended to support them in climate protection, especially reducing greenhouse gases, improving adaptability to the consequences of climate change and conserving and sustainably using climate-relevant areas which merit protection.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The deadline for submission of projects with a planned starting date in the second half of 2010 is April 15. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The deadline for submission of projects with a planned starting date in the first half of 2011 is December 31.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Read more at <a href="http://www.bmu-klimaschutzinitiative.de/en/application">http://www.bmu-klimaschutzinitiative.de/en/application</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>IMD MBA Alumni Scholarships - Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The five IMD MBA Alumni Scholarships are designed to encourage diversity in the class. One is awarded to each region: Asia, Africa/Middle East, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Western Europe/North America/Oceania.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Criteria: Submitting an essay on:  As a business leader, which issue would you set as your first priority to address in your region / country? Why would you choose this issue? How would you, personally, address it? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>(maximum 1000 words)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Please draw on your own experiences in your answer, rather than on general, broad statements. The committee is looking for essays that are personal, visionary and demonstrate leadership, which include a clearly articulated description of how the solution could be implemented.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>essay template<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline&nbsp;: September 30.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Read more at <a href="http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/fees/scholarships/Shell.cfm">http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/fees/scholarships/Shell.cfm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>JIM ELLERT SCHOLARSHIP - Swizerland<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Applicants must submit an essay on: 'Why I would like to do an MBA at IMD' (maximum 500 words)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Candidates will also be considered on the basis of merit as per the quality of their admission application.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>essay template<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline&nbsp;: September 30.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Read more at <a href="http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/fees/scholarships/Jim-Ellert.cfm">http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/fees/scholarships/Jim-Ellert.cfm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>NESTLE SCHOLARSHIP FOR WOMEN <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Nestlé Scholarship for Women was first awarded in 1997 and was initiated by a group of IMD MBA participants who wanted to encourage women to take the MBA. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Applicant submit an essay discussing the issue: 'Does diversity in management impact the bottom line? If so, how?' (maximum 750 words)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline&nbsp;: September 30.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Read more at <a href="http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/fees/scholarships/Nestle.cfm">http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/fees/scholarships/Nestle.cfm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Netherlands Fellowship Programmes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The Netherlands Fellowship Programmes (NFP) are demand-driven fellowship programmes designed to promote capacity building within organizations in 61 developing countries by providing training and education to their mid-career staff members. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Read more at <a href="http://www.nuffic.nl/international-students/scholarships/scholarships-administered-by-nuffic/the-netherlands-fellowship-programmes">http://www.nuffic.nl/international-students/scholarships/scholarships-administered-by-nuffic/the-netherlands-fellowship-programmes</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>NZAid Scholarships<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="http://www.nzaid.govt.nz/scholarships/">http://www.nzaid.govt.nz/scholarships/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>IMD MBA Future Leaders Scholarships <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Three scholarships are awarded each year to candidates who demonstrate leadership understanding through an essay competition. Candidates must be those who demonstrate exceptionally strong leadership potential and submit the best essay on 'Leadership in an era of Globalization'. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Deadline: September 30.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Read more at <a href="http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/fees/scholarships/Future-Leaders.cfm">http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/fees/scholarships/Future-Leaders.cfm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:black; mso-ansi-language:FR'>International Scholarships on water resources management<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>ICE WaRM offers a scholarship programme to attract high quality international students to education and training in water resources management, delivered by ICE WaRM partner institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>The ICE WaRM scholarship programme aims to:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>provide high calibre students with the opportunity to study with ICE WaRM partners to further their knowledge; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>provide students with the opportunity to participate in research and advance their scientific knowledge in water resources management; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>encourage the exchange of ideas on best practice within water-related fields; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>provide students with the opportunity to participate in presentations, conferences, seminars and forums on contemporary issues in water resources management; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>provide the opportunity for students from organisations and countries currently facing major water issues to participate in programmes which they may not be able to fund; and <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>demonstrate a commitment to cultural change and diversity and the international sharing of knowledge and skills related to water resources management. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>ENTRY REQUIREMENTS, PROGRAMME INFORMATION AND PARTNER UNIVERSITY WEBLINKS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>We recommend that you visit the Post-Graduate Programmes page of the website to find out more about the programme.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION CLOSING DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Semester 1 (July 2010) - Deadline 26th February 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'>Semester 2 (February 2011) - Dea