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The Garvey Fellowship Contest for junior higher education faculty and students is held every other year. The submission deadline is May 1, 2007. 2007 Garvey Fellowships will be awarded for the best essay on the topic:
Is foreign aid the solution to global poverty
A 2005 United Nations report called for a doubling of foreign aid to poor countries as the means to reduce poverty. Yet the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a for-profit microloan bank and its founder, an apparent vindication of the ideas of Peter T. Bauer, Henry Hazlitt, Deepak Lal, and others. As Bauer wrote, “Development aid, far from being necessary to rescue poor societies from a vicious circle of poverty, is far more likely to keep them in that state.…Emergence from poverty requires effort, firmly established property rights, and productive investment.”

Please visit the Guidelines page for more information about how to write your essay.

Awards:
Students
First Prize: $2,500
Second Prize: $1,500
Third prize: $1,000

Junior Faculty Members
First Prize: $10,000
Second Prize: $5,000
Third Prize: $1,500

Deadline: May 1, 2007

Since 1974, the internationally acclaimed Olive W. Garvey Fellowship program has awarded fellowships biennially to outstanding college students around the world through a competitive essay contest on the meaning and significance of economic and personal liberty. Garvey Fellows have since become some of the finest of scholars, business and civic leaders, journalists, etc., applying and advancing public knowledge and appreciation around the world for the ideas of individual liberty and personal responsibility.

Founded by the late business leader, educator, author, and philanthropist, Olive W. Garvey, the Garvey Fellowship program aims to encourage critical thinking and educational excellence by college students in examining the nature and relevance of human liberty.

Sponsored by The Independent Institute, the Garvey Fellowship program awards cash fellowships based on the review of all entries by a panel of three distinguished independent scholars.

• Essay Guidelines
• Suggested Essay Reference Bibliography
• Past Winners
• Submit Your Essay

The Independent Institute will publish the winning essays on this website and seek to have them published elsewhere in major magazines and journals. All winning entries become the property of and are copyrighted by The Independent Institute.

For further information, please contact:
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The Independent Institute
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Phone: 510-632-1366
Fax: 510-568-6040