2nd EUDN Workshop on Development Research for doctoral students
Bonn, 18-19 October 2002
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Eleven young development economists from Bangladesh, Belgium, China, Ecuador, France, Germany, Israel, Peru, Tanzania and the United Kingdom and so on had been selected to participate in the workshop.
Finally, positive externalities were captured: the students and tutors had plenty of time to get to know each other and exchange ideas during the many coffee breaks and the evening with dinner in the City of Bonn.
EUDN with its secretariat being located at the Center
for Development Research (ZEF) plans to repeat that kind of workshop
next year again! |
On
Friday and Saturday, 18 and 19 October 2002, the second Workshop
on Development Research, organized by the European Development Research
Network (EUDN), was completed successfully.
They
met for two intensive days to present their current research covering
topics like repayment rates in Bangladesh; survival and success
in African manufacturing firms; human capital externalities in India;
reforms, climatic risks and cereal-cash crop diversification in
China; or social interactions in growing bananas. 
Well
established academics from EUDN including Pramila Krishnan,
University of Cambridge; Sylvie Lambert from LEA-INRA, Paris and
Alexander Sarris from the University of Athens provided excellent
supervision. They guided the doctoral students through their presentations
by asking critical questions and giving constructive comments about
the methodologies and approaches chosen and the results obtained.
In
the open review of this program, the doctoral students expressed
satisfaction with the exercise. For most of the students it was
the first time to participate in such a type of workshop. Reactions
from the students: "brilliant experience" or "I got
a lot out of it"...
