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The Competition winners and respective prizes are:

• 1st Place (AUD $ 1500) Fitsum Woldegiorgis for his paper on financial inclusion.
• 2nd Place (AUD$ 1000) Coletta Boehl for her paper on renewable energy.
• 3rd Place (AUD$ 500) Arthur Alla for his paper on social enterprises.

Mr. Craig Wilson, FDC’s executive director presented the prizes to the winners at a ceremony at the University of Queensland on March 19th, 2010.

FDC and UQ were satisfied with the quality of the entries. In assessing the winning essays, Dr. Fabrizio Carmignani said “All in all, we have here three very good essays. All of them deal with important issues, all of them provide the reader with stimulating arguments, all of them denote that the authors have a deep interest in the subject and a good understanding of broad development themes. All of them would deserve the top prize, in one respect or another”.

The Foundation for Development Cooperation is an independent, not-for-profit international development organisation. Through alliances and partnerships, FDC undertakes a range of initiatives which seek to improve the lives of poor people in developing countries.

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