“Persistence, long memory and seasonality in Kenyan tourism series” a WP by Luis A. Gil-Alaña, Resident Fellow of the NCID, will be published in the forthcoming issue of the Annals of Tourism Research, the most important journal in the field. Robert Mudida, Non-Resident Fellow of the NCID and Fer...
Close to 200 million poverty-stricken persons throughout the world (70% of which are women) have had access to financial services through microfinance institutions. This was expressed by María Jesús Pérez, general assistant director of the NGO CODESPA, who visited the Navarra Center for International Development of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at the Universidad de Navarra together with the general director of the organization, José Ignacio González-Aller.
One of the latest cooperation projects being developed by C...
Pedro Mendi a resident fellow researcher at the Navarra Center of International Development (NCID) presented his paper on Informality and Innovation. The paper studies the relationship between competition against informal firms and innovation activities by formal firms. It makes use of the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey data. “One of the assumptions is that informal sector firms produce goods inferior to firms in the formal sector,” mentioned Pedro. “I found a positive correlation between the introduction of an innovation and intensity of competition against informal sector firms”...