Tracking Development Falsification Award: € 5000,-

5 maart 2010

Tracking Development is a multilateral, international research project on the comparative development trajectories of Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa over the last 50 years. The project is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and executed by the African Studies Centre and the KITLV in Leiden.

The Tracking Development project offers a prize of € 5000 (five thousand euros) to anybody who can convincingly show the following hypothesis to be untrue. The closing date for submissions is 1 May 2010.

Hypothesis
Sustained poverty reduction takes place in any country where the following three preconditions are all simultaneously and consistently met:
1) adequate macroeconomic management;
2) economic freedom for peasants and small entrepreneurs;
3) pro-poor, pro-rural public spending.

Submissions, of not fewer than 3000 and not more than 7000 words, should be sent to Tracking Development Project Officer by 1 May 2010.

For more details click here.