The first day of the IV Development Week, organized by the NCID of the University of Navarra, focused on issues related to Human Capital in developing countries from a microeconomic perspective. Studies carried out in china, Mexico, India, Ecuador and Macedoinia among others were presented. This event took place June 1st and 2nd at the IESE Business School in Madrid.
After the opening session by Luis Ravina, director of the NCID, Jere Behrman, professor of the Unive...
Experts from international and academic institutions will present their research on development in the IV Development Week, an annual meeting organized by the NCID on the 1st and the 2nd of June at IESE Business School in Madrid. The NCID is a project of the Institute for Culture and Society of the University of Navarra, a research center in humanities and social sciences of the University of Navarra.
The speakers come from diff...
On Tuesday, NCID hosted Elise Huillery, Assistant Professor of Economics at SciencesPo in Paris and Lab Affiliate with the Jameel Poverty Action Lab. She joined the NCID to present her recent research on the use and effects of financial incentives in the health sector in developing countries. The randomized experiment was carried out at 96 clinics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the results shed light on some key outcomes of performance-based financing in healthcare and in general.
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