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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NCID recently had the honor of hosting Professor Kaivan Munshi of University of Cambridge's Economics Faculty in Pamplona. Professor Munshi presented his recent work on the role of the caste system in India in defining economic and social trends. In the paper, he examines intra-cast support networks, or insurance, as they affect the likeliness of someone to migrate to the urban labor market.
Munshi summarized the context of the paper as the following. "The rural urban wage gap has exceed 25% for decades in India and at the same...
Luis Ravina, director del Navarra Center for International Development (NCID) del Instituto Cultura y Sociedad, y Luis A. Gil-Alaña, investigador del NCID y profesor de la Facultad de Económicas, han sido nombrados miembros de los consejos editoriales de dos publicaciones sobre sociologÃa, desarrollo y economÃa.
Luis Ravina, catedrático de EconomÃa Internacional, es el miembro rep...