Travel Grants for Economists from Least Developed Countries

The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Trust invites nominations for economists from less developed countries to be awarded full travel grants to attend the 2013 AAEA & CAES Joint Annual Meeting in Washington, DC August 4-6, 2013. Nominees should be professional economists who are from and residing in a developing country. A complete list of qualifying countries is available here, under the headings “Low-income economies” and “Lower-middle-income economies”: http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications/country-and-lending-groups#Low_income. Or see list below.

Nominees should be working in one or more of the fields of agricultural, development, environmental, food and consumer, natural resource, regional, rural, or related areas of applied economics and business.

Nominations should include:

1. Nominee’s name, institution, postal address, and e-mail address.
2. Nominator’s name, institution, postal address, and e-mail address.
3. Brief statement of support written by the nominator.
4. Brief statement of interest written by the nominee.
5. Proposed travel budget. (sample budget)
6. Paper (no longer than 20pp. double-spaced pages, including tables and figures) describing the research to be presented at the meetings

Eligible nominators include department chairs or administrators, advisors, or any AAEA member.

Nomination packages should be submitted electronically in a single PDF to kristin@aaea.org by 5 p.m. CDT on Monday, November 5, 2012.

Selected applicants will be scheduled to present their research (as a paper or poster) during the meeting. Details regarding presentation will be provided after the acceptance notices are sent out.

The funds for these travel grants are provided by a grant from USDA-ERS.

Low-income economies
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Benin
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo, Dem. Rep
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gambia
Guinea
Guinea-Bisau
Haiti
Kenya
Korea, Dem Rep.
Kyrgyz Republic
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mozambique
Myanmar
Nepal
Niger
Rwanda
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Togo
Uganda
Zimbabwe

Lower-middle-income economies
Angola
Armenia
Belize 
Bhutan
Bolivia
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Congo, Rep.
Côte d'Ivoire
Djibouti
Egypt, Arab Rep.
El Salvador
Fiji
Georgia
Ghana
Guatemala
Guyana
Honduras
Indonesia
India
Iraq
Kiribati
Kosovo 
Lao PDR
Lesotho
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.
Moldova
Mongolia
Morocco
Nicaragua
Nigeria 
Pakistan 
Papua New Guinea 
Paraguay
Philippines
Samoa
São Tomé and Principe
Senegal
Solomon Islands
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Swaziland
Syrian Arab Republic
Timor-Leste
Tonga
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vietnam
West Bank and Gaza
Yemen, Rep.
Zambia