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Policy Brief No. 24
Mangroves are best defence against cyclones
Read the Full Policy Brief by Saudamini Das, a SANDEE Research Associate

SANDEE Working Paper No. 24-07

Newsletter No. 16, Spring 2008

Grant Recipients

Policy on Plagiarism

Tools for Researchers and Teachers

Research Guidelines for Pre-proposals

Research Advisors

FAQ's (Frequently Asked Questions)
Regarding Research Grants

Research Grants Approved

Research Completed

Examples of Previously Funded Research Proposals

Guidelines for Research Report - for SANDEE Grantees

Helpful Tips for Good Writing

How to Design a Research Project in Environmental Economics?
By David Glover
We encourage you to visit this link to a paper that may be helpful to you in writing a proposal to SANDEE. The paper is by David Glover, Director of the Economy and Environment Program for South East Asia (EEPSEA)

Green Indian States Trust (GIST)
The “Green Accounting for Indian States & Union Territories Project” (“GAISP”), seeks to build a framework of national accounts that presents genuine net additions to national wealth. This system of environmentally-adjusted national income accounts will measure the depletion of natural resources and the costs of pollution and will evaluate additions to the stock of human capital. To borrow from the language of accountants, we want to help present national accounts in the form of a balance sheet and not as an income and expenditure account.

Household Surveys in Developing Countries
Visit the following link for detailed information and practical advice on survey design, sampling frames, training etc.

Fieldwork in Development Economics
This is Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD’s "virtual center" for fieldwork in Development Economics. The purpose of this site is to serve as a resource for faculty and graduate students in economics who are doing or would like to do fieldwork

Proposal on Property Rights and Resource Conditions
by Arun Agrawal
Please see this best-practice example of a proposal by Dr. Arun Agrawal of Yale University on Property Rights and Resource Conditions: A Study from the Western Himalaya. We think a review of this proposal may help you in writing your proposal for SANDEE. The proposal is a good example of:

»	Literature reviews and how to create a compelling case for your own research based on the literature review
»	Research questions and how they need to be linked to research
»	Hypothesis (p. 6)
»	Discussion on data sources and availability
»	The linkages between research questions, hypothesis, data and data sources (Appendix 1)

This proposal was not written for SANDEE. It was funded in 1999 by the US National Science Foundation.

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)
Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household surveys have become an important tool in measuring and understanding poverty in developing countries. The Development Economics Research Group (DECRG) of the World Bank, formerly the Policy Research Department, maintains this website to make available to researchers around the world the data sets and methodological lessons from these surveys. The questionnaires and other tools will be useful to SANDEE researchers interested in undertaking surveys.

Demographic and Health Surveys
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) project is the third consecutive worldwide research project initiated by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide data and analysis on the population, health, and nutrition of women and children in developing countries. Its two predecessors, the World Fertility Survey (WFS) and the Contraceptive Prevalence Surveys (CPS), paved the way for the DHS project by focusing their research on questions related to fertility, family planning, and mortality. They also helped develop DHS' current reputation as a leader in the field of demographic and health research.

Socio-economic and Demographic (SED) Data
This site contains information and data pertaining to the 2001 socio-economic and demographic (SED) household survey in the indigenous communities of the northern Oriente, Ecuador.

Nang Rong Projects Social Survey Data
This site contains Social survey data of Nang Rang Project in Thailand.

Agricultural Innovation and Resource Management in Ghanaian Households: Survey Data
This site contains data on survey work done in Ghana by Christopher Udry.