Deadline: November
30, 2004
The Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network brings together
and provides support to developing country researchers working to reduce
poverty.
About PEP
PEP is composed of three tightly linked constituent networks. The first
- Community-Based Monitoring Systems (CBMS) - designs and pilots community-based
monitoring and local development systems aimed at poverty in its multidimensional
sense. The second - Poverty Monitoring, Measurement and Analysis (PMMA)
- aims to develop and apply analytical tools to monitor, measure and understand
poverty, and to analyze a wide range of poverty issues. The third - Modeling
and Policy Impact Analysis (MPIA) uses economy-wide models as a "laboratory"
to identify and analyze the links between specific policies and shocks
and their eventual impacts on poverty.
Call for Proposals
This call for research proposals concerns the PMMA and MPIA networks and
targets researchers residing in developing countries. Both networks offer
financial ($CAN 20,000 research grants), technical and scientific support
to member researchers. The PMMA network currently focuses mainly on multidimensional
poverty analysis, public spending and intra household allocation. The
poverty impacts of growth, public spending and agricultural policies are
priority themes for the MPIA network. Both networks also offer a special
Gender Challenge Fund for poverty studies on gender issues.
Proposals submitted before November 30, 2004 will be considered for presentation
at the June 13-17, 2005 PEP general meeting in Sri Lanka. To maximize
local capacity building, we particularly encourage teams composed of a
senior researcher supervising several younger researchers particularly
female researchers.
Submissions / Further Information
For more information consult the Pep Website ("Call for proposals")
http://www.pep-net.org/
Contact
John Cockburn, Co-director
Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP)
Research Network
CIRPEE, Department of Economics
Laval University
Quebec City (Quebec)
G1K 7P4
CANADA
Tel: 1-418-656-2131 ext 2697
Fax: 1-418-656-7798
Email: jcoc@ecn.ulaval.ca