The director of the Navarra Center for International Development (NCID), Luis Ravina, traveled to South Africa in order to expand the network of researchers and foundations that the center already has in the country. One of the research assistants, Pierce King, accompanied him on the trip.
Luis Ravina had a meeting with the Spanish Ambassador to South Africa, Juan Sell, as well as the trade commissioner of the Economics and Commercial Office of Spain in Johannesburg, Enrique Manzanares Carbonell
In addition, Luis met with François Bonnici, who is the Director of the Ber...
Anna Tompsett from the University of Columbia presented a paper titled: "Bridges Transport Infrastructure and Economic Geography on the Mississippi and Ohio 1860-2000". “This paper is really about how infrastructure influences economic structure,” she said. “Governments and international markets will spend up to $45 billion between now and 2050 on infrastructure projects”, and after a pause for effect she continued, “85% of this will be in non-OECD countries...thESE ARE the developing countries.”
She originally extracted her data from the National Bridge Inve...
Pedro Vicente, a Nonresident, Faculty Fellow of the Navarra Center for International Development, gave an intensive course on Development Economics at the University of Navarra. The course focused on the main topics in the development economics literature.
The course brought into focus three different strategies to improve development and fight poverty: health and education, finance and agriculture. These three areas are classical themes inside development and are a successful way to promote and measure development. For example, education is a long run main driver of dev...