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.
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...