Deadline: 17-Jun-22
The World Bank Office in Armenia is pleased to announce a call for research proposals to understand the current challenges facing Armenia in achieving:
- sustainable and inclusive growth, and
- the World Bank’s Twin Goals of eradication of extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity.
The World Bank encourages academic and research institutions and individuals, NGOs, SCOs, experts, and other development and policy practitioners to submit their research proposals.
Topics
A non-exhaustive list of relevant topics includes:
- Productivity trends and challenges
- Agricultural productivity
- Magnitude, characteristics, and drivers of informal employment
- Skills and quality of learning
- Matching worker skills to the private sector needs
- Demographic challenges
- International migration and remittances flows
- Migration and demographic trends within Armenia
- Development of subnational regions (marzs or other geographical/administrative divisions)
- Development of secondary urban centers (outside Yerevan)
- Municipal governance and administrative reform of rayons
- Living conditions, demographic characteristics, connectivity, human capital and welfare of internally displaced people (IDPs)
- Access to finance and financial inclusion
- Constrains and opportunities in international trade
- Constrains and opportunities to attract foreign direct investment (FDI)
- Role and opportunities on trade
- Exposure, adaptation and mitigation to climate change and/or natural disasters
Funding Information
The World Bank will select up to five proposals based on the requirements highlighted in the Call. The maximum amount to be provided to each project is up to US$5,000.
Criteria
- The World Bank will review all submissions and provide financial support to selected authors to conduct and finalize their research. Additionally, World Bank experts may provide technical assistance and dissemination opportunities to support the researchers, if applicable.
- A World Bank Committee will evaluate all submissions in terms of originality, analytical rigor, and policy relevance. Proposals that leverage data and empirical evidence will be prioritized.
- Both advanced research papers and research proposals will be accepted.
- Research proposals may not exceed 2,000 words and must include an explicit research question, methodological strategy, suggested data sources, and relevant hypotheses. Submissions should preferably be written in English but may also be written in Armenian. However, all submissions must include an Abstract in English.
For more information, visit https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/3d0dee535119132eb68add48ad076e8e-0080012022/original/ARM-SCD-call-papers-May2022.pdf