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About the World Bank

Mission

The World Bank Group has two ambitious goals: End extreme poverty within a generation and boost shared prosperity.

Calling for Applications from Developing Countries to the Joint Japan World Bank Graduate Scholarships Program (JJ/WBGSP)

For developing country applicants:

To apply for the JJ/WBGSP scholarship you must be a developing country national, not be a dual citizen of any developed country, hold a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent university degree) earned before 2013, be under 45 years old on the Application Deadline date, and have at least 3 years of recent development-related experience since earning a Bachelor’s degree. Most importantly, you must commit to returning home to your country on graduation in order to use your enhanced knowledge and skills towards your community’s, country’s, or region’s development. Those receiving a scholarship are barred from working at the World Bank Group for three years following graduation from the preferred master’s program.

JJ/WBGSP Scholars from developing countries can study only at preferred master’s programs and partner master’s programs associated with this scholarship.

If you think you fit our profile then consider the two ways citizens of developing countries can apply for this scholarship:

For scholarships to one of our partner master’s programs, please first apply to at least one of our partner university master’s programs. The university will send the JJ/WBGSP Secretariat a short list of eligible candidates who have been accepted by the partner program, and the JJ/WBGSP Steering Committee will award scholarships to a subset of the short-listed applicants.
For scholarships to one of our preferred master’s programs, you need to apply to the university to be accepted into the program and also apply directly to JJ/WBGSP for the scholarship. The deadline for JJ/WBGSP scholarship applications for the academic year 2016-17 is March 10, 2016, 12 noon EST.
To begin the web-based application process for a scholarship to one of the Program’s preferred master’s programs, we recommend you:

Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP)

Application Guidelines For JJ/WBGSP 2016 Scholarship For Developing Country Nations*

Attention! These Guidelines are not valid for applicants who are Japanese nationals. For more information on the JJ/WBGSP application guidelines for Japanese nationals and other scholarship programs administered by the World Bank, please visit: http://www.worldbank.org/scholarships

I. To Have An Application Reviewed Applicants Must Meet All Of The following Criteria:

1. Preferred University Master’s Program:

The applicant has separately applied for the 2016- academic year admission to one of the JJ/WBGSP preferred university master’s programs listed on the JJ/WBGSP website (http://www.worldbank.org/scholarships) and located outside of the applicant’s country of citizenship and country of residence.

Please note: individuals currently studying in a JJ/WBGSP preferred university master’s program are NOT eligible to receive a JJ/WBGSP scholarship.

2. Eligibility Criteria:

The applicant must meet the following eligibility criteria:

Be a national of a World Bank member country eligible to borrow.
Not be a dual citizen of any developed country.
Be under the age of 45 on the Application Deadline date.
Not be an Executive Director, his/her alternate, and/or staff of all types of appointments of the World Bank Group (The World Bank, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, and International Center for Settlements of Investment Disputes), or a close relative of the aforementioned by blood or adoption with the term "close relative" defined as: Mother, Father, Sister, Half-sister, Brother, Half-brother, Son, Daughter, Aunt, Uncle, Niece, or Nephew.
Hold a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent university degree) earned before 2013.
Have at least 3 years of development-related experience since earning a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent university degree) and within the past six years from the date of the Application Deadline. Please see Annex 1 for a suggested list of development-related topics.
Have been accepted unconditionally (except for funding) to enroll in the upcoming academic year in one of the JJ/WBGSP preferred university master’s programs listed on the JJ/WBGSP website, and located outside of the applicant’s country of citizenship and country of residence. (See further guidance below for when this letter of acceptance must be submitted to JJ/WBGSP Secretariat.
Be in good health, with respect to the capacity to be a productive scholar on a continuous full-time basis for the duration of the master’s program, as certified by a medical doctor less than 3 months before the start of the master’s program.
Not received any scholarship funding to earn a Graduate degree or its equivalent from any other sources funded by the government of Japan.
3. Online Application:

An application will be accepted and reviewed if the applicant submits only one completed application electronically through the online application site by the Application Deadline of noon, Washington D.C time (Eastern Standard Time/EST) on Thursday, March 10, 2016. An application is considered complete if it includes: (i) a completed Application Form (which includes an applicant’s agreement to conditions stated on the Signature Page of the Application Form); and (ii) recommendation letters from two people who have direct knowledge of the applicant’s professional experience. Emails from the JJ/WBGSP Secretariat:

An applicant will be notified three times by email during a successful application process:

From recommendations@wizehive.com confirming the first of your two required recommenders submitted his/her recommendation
From recommendations@wizehive.com confirming the second of your two required recommenders submitted his/her recommendation
If you have not received both of these emails from recommendations@wizehive.com, please follow up directly with your recommender(s). If we do not receive the two required recommendations by the Application Deadline, your application will be considered incomplete and will not be reviewed. - An email from applications@wizehive.com confirming your online Application Form has been submitted and received. Applicants should get this confirmation within one hour of a successful submission of the Application Form.

If you have not received this confirmation email, please return to the online Application Form and submit again. Once you have successfully submitted the form you will no longer be able to access it. When you receive all three emails, your application is complete.

Please note: individuals who submit more than one application will be disqualified.

4. Professional Recommendations Process:

The applicant can have only two professional recommendations – one is not sufficient and three or more is not permitted. It is strongly recommended at least one of the two required professional recommendations be from a current or former supervisor. Recommendations from professors/lecturers based on your status as a student do not qualify as a professional recommendation.

To fulfill the required two professional recommendations, complete and submit the Reference Request Form in the online application. Refer to the documents “Accessing your online application” and “Navigating your online application”to help you complete and submit this form. The Recommendation Request Form requires the applicant to identify the name and email address for each of the two recommenders. It is the applicant’s sole responsibility to make sure the email contact information provided on the Recommender Request Form is accurate. Unless circumstance professional email address is not available, we require the email address be from the professional institution of the person providing a recommendation. For example, use of gmail, yahoo, and other similar email addresses is highly discouraged. If this type of email is used, JJ/WBGSP may verify the professional association of your recommender as part of our review process.

Please Note: It is recommended applicants submit the Recommendation Request Form as soon as possible to give sufficient time for the recommenders to meet the Application Deadline. Applicants can submit the Recommendation Request Form before submitting the Application Form. We also suggest you first confirm with your recommender that they are willing to provide a recommendation before you submit their contact information.

The recommender will be notified that you have asked him/her to provide a recommendation, and will be instructed to submit the recommendation electronically to the JJ/WBGSP Secretariat by the Application Deadline.

Please note: the email to a recommender is usually sent by JJ/WBGSP within 5 minutes of the applicant submitting the recommender’s contact information through the online application. If the recommender does not receive the email, please ask him/her to check his/her junk mail folders for an email from recommendations@wizehive.com.

Attention:

If the two recommendations submitted through the Recommendation Request Form are not received by JJ/WBGSP by the Application Deadline, the application will not be reviewed. It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure his/her recommenders meet the Application Deadline.

5. Language:

The applicant must complete the Application Form either in English or the language of their master’s degree program. (For example, a completed Application Form written in French by an applicant who is seeking a scholarship to attend a preferred university in the United Kingdom will not be reviewed).

Please note: Completing the Application Form includes uploading scanned copies of: (i) the proof of employment (if employment information is provided in the “Employment” Section of the Application Form); and (ii) a certified copy of the applicant’s most advanced university degree. If these documents are not in English or the language of the master’s degree program being applied to, they must be translated into English or the language of the master’s degree program. Both the document in the original language and the translated document must be uploaded into the Application Form. The translation does not need to be certified.

II. Inquires From Applicants To The JJ/WBGSP Secretariat

Please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), written in English and available on the JJ/WBGSP website, for any questions regarding the online application or the application process in general not answered by other information presented on our website. The FAQs will be updated regularly during the call for applications.

If the answer to your question is not contained in the FAQs or on the website, you may email: scholarshipapplicants@worldbank.org. You will not receive a reply from us if the answer to your question can be found on our website. In the rare case your question is not answered on our website, we will aim to reply to your email inquiry within 3 business days. While we will read emails in Spanish and French, we will only respond in English to all emails.

Attention:

We do not guarantee we will reply to any inquiry received less than 3 business days before the Application Deadline. Because the application process is lengthy, it is recommended you submit your application at least one-week ahead of the deadline to avoid any last minute issues.

III. Additional Requirements Of Finalists For The Ssholarship

After you submit your completed application it will go through a multi-step selection process, described on the “Selection” page of our website. For those applicants notified by the JJ/WBGSP Secretariat of their status as a finalists, the JJ/WBGSP will request the following additional information:

Letter of Acceptance from a preferred master program identified in the Application Form submission. The timing of this request depends on the master degree program:
For master’s programs that provide a letter of acceptance before May 12, 2016: The JJ/WBGSP Secretariat will contact via email each finalist on or before May 9, 2016, and ask he/she to deliver via email by May 12, 2016, a scanned copy of the official letter of acceptance into the preferred master’s program noted on your Application Form, with the letter either: unconditional or conditional only upon securing funding.
For master’s programs that provide a letter of acceptance on or after May 12, 2016: The JJ/WBGSP Secretariat will contact via email each finalist on or before May 9, 2016, and ask he/she to deliver to the JJ/WBGSP Secretariat, via email within one week of the date of the letter of acceptance to a preferred master’s program that was noted on his/her Application Form , a scanned copy of that letter of acceptance. The letter of acceptance must be either unconditional or conditional only upon securing funding.
Identification: When JJWBGSP Secretariat offers a scholarship, the finalist will be requested to submit a scanned copy of the identification page of his/her Passport or other legal document (birth or marriage certificate), with the name IDENTICAL to the one submitted on the Application Form to the JJ/WBGSP Secretariat within 3 Business Days from the time the JJ/WBGSP Secretariat offers the scholarship.
Medical Certificate: After JJWBGSP Secretariat offers a scholarship, and at least 17 business days before traveling to the university to commence the master program, the finalist will be requested to submit a scanned copy of a certificate less than three months old from the start date of their master’s program from a medical doctor stating the scholar is in good health with respect to the capacity to be a productive scholar on a continuous full time basis for the duration of the master’s program
Please note: Failure to produce these three documents on time will result in disqualification. For example, if the letter of acceptance to the preferred master’s program is conditional upon fulfilling the university’s language testing requirement, the finalist is disqualified.

FAQ's

Where Can You Study

Can I receive a JJ/WBGSP scholarship for any master’s program I apply to?

No. This scholarship is only available for studying at a master’s program granted “preferred” or “partner” status by the JJ/WBG Scholarship Program. The lists of “preferred” and “partner” graduate programs are posted on the Scholarship Program’s website http://www.worldbank.org/scholarships.

Universities have many graduate programs, but JJ/WBGSP scholarships are only for those programs listed on the Scholarship Program website. If a university’s graduate program is not posted on the Scholarship Program website as having “preferred” or “partner” status, you cannot receive a JJ/WBGSP scholarship to attend that graduate program. For example, the Mid-Career MPA Program (The Masons Program) at Harvard, is not granted “preferred” or “partnership” status, therefore the JJ/WBG Scholarship Program does not provide scholarships to students enrolled in that program.

Likewise, double or dual-degree programs with one of our preferred programs are not accepted unless they are explicitly listed on our preferred programs list.

Can I receive this scholarship for undergraduate studies, PhD studies, or nondegree graduate studies?

No. This scholarship does not sponsor PhD studies, undergraduate studies, distance learning programs, short-term training, conferences, seminars, thesis writing, or research projects.

Can I apply this year using a 2015-16 admission letter that was deferred one-year and unconditionally by one of the preferred master’s program?

Yes. In the application field for uploading the admissions letter, please upload the document from the master’s program indicating its agreement to defer your admission to 2016-17.

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I am very sure most parents will swear their wards are virgins, same with most guys about their sisters and vice versa, leaving one wondering who are those getting bleep every seconds!

Please, take time to visits HIV clinics and their wards in hospitals, maybe you will have a different thoughts regarding UNPROTECTED intercourse. This is not a question of love, respect , cheap or trust. The first basic instinct of human is survival after wish we could discuss other issues.

Folks protect your future by all means necessarily!

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Hmmmm! @OP. I could relate to your experience because it was a replica of mine. After a showcase of the evidence, she was sober and remorseful and asked for a second chance which I gladly accepted (sometimes we all need it since no ONE is Holy! ) but honestly the major challenge after that was "trust" issue but at the tail end she proved her love and commitment to the relationship because she knew I was for real about her.

Although we later went our separate ways on health grounds (gist for another day), sincerely my heart still longs for her and for once I could tell myself I have experience what it means to love someone even in their imperfections -The God kind of Love.

Once again, the ball is in your court, take your decision and stand by it, you MIGHT be lucky to meet an angel in the future

ernie4life:
The Richest Man in Babylon 
Written by George Samuel Clason

It's a classic written in a story format that makes it more interesting to read, it teaches the basic principles in investment which am going to summarise in the 8 points below.

1. Pay Ourselves First( learn to save first before you start spending) 

2.   Live below our means. (“Control thy expenditures, curtail your expenditure to the minimum ”)

3. Make our money work for us( learn to invest your savings to yield more for you)

4. Insurance protects our wealth.  (“Guard they treasures from loss.”)

5. Our home is our biggest expense.  (make efforts to get your own personal house)

6. Have a retirement plan. (“plan for your retirement now your still working) 

7. Invest in ourselves. (“Increase your ability to earn by learning more and more through books etc)

8. Track Our Wealth. (Know where you are and where you are going.) 


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done that.

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Do you mind sharing how you solved the problem, we could learn one or two things from your first hand experience

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This is why communication is very important.

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Me: hello suga!

Wifey: hi sweets

Me : guess What?

Wifey: (panting and anxious) yes sweets, I m all Ears

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Wifey:what about the guess waiting?

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On a normal day, one will go for the contract and reschedule the wedding, l might want to do something exceptional by asking my wife to be to join me in the contract signing that way we all achieve a win win situation

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