Alex Armand, NCID researcher receives funding from the Ramon Areces Foundation to carry out the project: "Towards an understanding of parental expectations of returns to education in developing countries."
"Education is a very important aspect of a country’s growth,” explains the researcher, and therefore, “it is essential to understand how parents and/or children make decisions when making this type of investment in human capital".
The project aims to understand parents’ expectations that may ...
Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, researcher at the Navarra Center for International Development (NCID), visited Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya, for research collaboration and to teach over 10 days.
The Pamplona-based expert in macroeconomics gave two courses on Econometrics and Data Analysis to students in Strathmore Business School and the Master of Public Policy. The course for the Masters students was organized by the Financial Sector Deepening Kenya, an organization that targets financial inclusio...
Alex Armand, researcher at the Navarra Center for International Development will be conducting a research experiment on natural resources in Mozambique, titled ‘On the mechanics of the political resource curse: information and local elite behaviour in Mozambique'. The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) will fund the project that will be jointly executed by Pedro Vicente of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Novafrica) and Alex Armand at the NCID.