Luis A. Gil-Alaña, researcher at the Navarra Center for International Development (NCID), will publish a chapter in the book "Economic Integration, Currency Union, and Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in East Africa", which is part of a larger series titled “Advances in African Economics, Social and Political Development”. The research was completed jointly with PhD students Godfrey Madigu and Héctor Cárcel and will be released before June 2016 by Springer.
The chapter is titled "Currency Union in the East African Community" in which they examine the inflation rates from th...
Alessandro Tarozzi from Universitat Pompeu Fabra presented his research “Time Inconsistency, Expectations and Technology Adoption: The case of Insecticide Treated Nets” on a seminar organized by the NCID.
The paper presents a model that estimates household time-preference parameters when making a choice. The data of this project comes from a field intervention in rural India, concretely in 5 districts in Orrissa, a region in the east of India. The intervention studied the decision to purchase insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and the secondar...
Energy and infrastructure are the two sectors with the highest potential to attract and support Spanish investment in Africa, according to Enrique Manzanares, former Economic and Commercial Counsel at the Embassy of Spain in Johannesbourg (South Africa). Manzanares offered his insights as part of the presentation of the book Africans Investing in Africa at the NCID.
Focusing on the energy sector, he sees an especially the promising future in the natural gas extraction following significant discoveries in Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya and Namibia. In terms of demonstrated in...