IFC-FT essay competition: Deadline approaching
Sunday, 2 September 2007
THE International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Financial Times (FT) jointly have arranged an essay competition. Six awards will be granted to the top papers as judged by the awards committee: gold award US$20,000, silver awards, each US$10,000 and 3 bronze awards, each US$5,000.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Financial Times (FT) will publish all winning essays on their external websites and may provide publication in additional formats at their discretion.
This year's theme is "Private Sector Development: Creating Markets, Transforming Lives." Essays should:
o Provide insight into current Private Sector Development (PSD) research
o Develop and support the implementation of leading-edge PSD initiatives
o Strike a balance between conceptual and practical considerations for private-sector involvement in developing countries, and the effect of that involvement on development
o Reflect innovative, data-supported research resulting from the author's own professional or academic work
o Target economic and financial policymakers, the international financial community and/or international domestic investors
There is no restrictions regarding age, profession, education level, or location. Joint authorship is permitted.
Abstracts and essays have separate word limits. Abstracts can have up to 300 words; essays can have up to 4000 words. Abstracts and essays cannot "borrow" word count from each other. The bibliography does not count toward the maximum length. Please limit your footnotes/endnotes to citations and do not use them for additional text or commentary. Deadline for submissions is on September 30, 2007. For more on this, please visit http://www.ifc.org/competition.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Financial Times (FT) will publish all winning essays on their external websites and may provide publication in additional formats at their discretion.
This year's theme is "Private Sector Development: Creating Markets, Transforming Lives." Essays should:
o Provide insight into current Private Sector Development (PSD) research
o Develop and support the implementation of leading-edge PSD initiatives
o Strike a balance between conceptual and practical considerations for private-sector involvement in developing countries, and the effect of that involvement on development
o Reflect innovative, data-supported research resulting from the author's own professional or academic work
o Target economic and financial policymakers, the international financial community and/or international domestic investors
There is no restrictions regarding age, profession, education level, or location. Joint authorship is permitted.
Abstracts and essays have separate word limits. Abstracts can have up to 300 words; essays can have up to 4000 words. Abstracts and essays cannot "borrow" word count from each other. The bibliography does not count toward the maximum length. Please limit your footnotes/endnotes to citations and do not use them for additional text or commentary. Deadline for submissions is on September 30, 2007. For more on this, please visit http://www.ifc.org/competition.