NCID Non-Resident Fellow, Rabah Arezki, has published his research on recent oil price depression on the International Monetary Fund’s iMFdirect blog. The article, co-written with Olivier Blanchard (Director of the IMF Research Group), explores the causes, diverse nature, and primary causes of the international slump in oil prices since June 2014. Titled
NCID was pleased to welcome Beata Javorcik, Professor of Economics at Oxford University, as she delivered a seminar on research on export financing in emerging markets (completed with Banu Demir of Bilkent University). The central question put forth in her work is what determines how an international trade transaction is financed— or, when do exporters, importers, or third parties bear risk?
More specifically, the project focuses on competition within manufacturing/export markets and consumptio...
El investigador del Navarra Center for International Development, Pedro Mendi, recibe una de las ayudas a la investigación en Ciencias Sociales de la Fundación Ramón Areces para llevar a cabo el proyecto de investigación: "Innovación Tecnológica en PaÃses en Desarrollo, Análisis Teórico y Evidencia EmpÃrica del Ãfrica Sub-Sahariana".
“El uso de nuevas tecnologÃas en las empresas tiene como consecuencia un aumento de la productividad de los trabajadores, –explica Pedro Mendi – cabe esperar que este aumen...