African Liberty Organization for Development (ALOD), a not-for-profit organization, is inviting entries from suitably qualified candidates for the 2017 Adam Smith Essay Contest.
Adam Smith 2017 Essay Contest
Description
The contest is being held in honour of Adam Smith, the late English economist and foremost free market advocate.
Objective
The essay is organised with the objective to give young people opportunity to study the position of Adam Smith on the market process and dynamics
Question
Drawing from Adam Smith's propositions, explain how free market promotes equal opportunities
Essay Guideline
Participant must be a student in any tertiary institutions (University, Polytechnic, College of Education and Technical Schools) in Nigeria
The format of the text should be in Microsoft Word document and not more than 500 words.
No participant is allowed to lift materials directly from the works of any author and claim to be his/her own
Plagiarism automatically disqualifies any entry which contains works of another author
If any text or sentence is copied from another authors work, it must be shown in quotation marks and writer must credit the original author at the bottom of the paper
On the first page of the completed essay, every participant must write his/her full names department, and year of study, name and country of institution gender and age
Also include your e-mail address and functional mobile phone number
Prizes
Top five entries will be awarded cash prizes and full scholarship to attend ALOD Summer Camp in Abuja in September:
1st - N30,000 and scholarship to two-day Liberty Camp in Abuja
2nd - N20,000 and scholarship to two-day Liberty Camp in Abuja
3rd - N10,000 and scholarship to two-day Liberty Camp in Abuja
4th to 10th - N5,000 each and scholarship to two-day Liberty Camp in Abuja
All qualified entries will receive a compact disc on "Ideas for a Free Society".
Deadline
31st July, 2017.
How to Apply
Applicants must their entries to: essay@alodpolicy.org
Note
Winners will be announced on August 11, 2017
The essay contest is supported by Network for Free Society, Language of Liberty Institute, Kids4Biz, and Institute for Economic Affairs.
For questions, email: ibrahim.anoba@alodpolicy.org
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