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6. GENERAL
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The International Food Policy Research Institute has asked SARPN to advertise its
post-doctoral fellowship programme: IFPRI is offering fellowships to three persons who have
doctorates from universities in developing countries. The objective of the fellowships is to
generate sustained capacity to undertake policy research for solving food, agricultural and
natural resource problems in developing countries and to communicate the results for maximum
policy impact. The fellowships will be available from September 2002. Potential candidates
should have degrees in the areas of agricultural economics, economics, political science or
other social sciences or disciplines related to IFPRI's research mandate.
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Linking up: Further details can be obtained from Suresh Babu at S.Babu@cgiar.org. Persons
may also visit
http://www.ifpr.org for additional information about IFPRI's research
activities.
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SARPN and the HSRC
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SARPN is hosted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in Pretoria. The HSRC, a
nationally-funded social science research agency in South Africa, undertakes research in
eight key areas, all of which have clear developmental foci. They include governance and
democracy; integrated development; HIV/AIDS; labour market analysis; human resource
development; children, youth and family and research into various aspects of educational
issues. The HSRC is committed to undertaking applied social science that is problem solving,
multi-disciplinary, large-scale and often empirical. Its new vision is "social science that
makes a difference".
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SARPN is presently funded by DFID(SA)
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Contacting SARPN
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Project leader: Mr Mike de Klerk (
mdeklerk@hsrc.ac.za)
Co-ordinator: Mr Richard Humphries (
Rhumphries@hsrc.ac.za)
Policy analyst: Dr Scott Drimie (
sedrimie@hsrc.ac.za)
Project assistant: Mr John Tuma (
jtuma@hsrc.ac.za)
Secretarial: Ms Ilona de Villiers (
sarpn@hsrc.ac.za)
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Telephone: (27) 12 — 302 2334
Fax: (27) 12 — 302 2284/16
SARPN www:
http://www.hsrc.ac.za/corporate/conferences/sarpn/index.html
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This newsletter was written by Richard Humphries with contributions by Richard Tren
(section 2.4), Scott Drimie (section 4.1) and John Tuma (sections 4.2-4.5).
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Footnotes:
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Between 1950 and 1955, the GDP growth rates of Greece, Italy and Spain were 3.6%,
5.3% and 6.2% respectively compared to an average growth rate of 2.3% for western
Europe. The growth rates prior to malaria eradication (1913 to 1938) were 2.1% for
Greece, 1.0% for Italy and -0.4% for Spain. (Gallup & Sachs)
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Economic freedom measures how government intervention can restrict economic relations
between parties. The economic indicators are trade policy, taxation, monetary policy,
the banking system, foreign-investment rules, property rights, the amount of economic
output consumed by the government, regulation policy, the size of the black market and
the extent of wage and price controls. (Economist, 2001)
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