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July 04, 2019
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Inaugural conference by Prof. Stefan Dercon at the event Africa: A Reality with Future, organized last 30th May, 2019 at Casa Árabe by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Navarra Center for International Development.

Stefan Dercon is the Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford and Professor at the Blavatnik School of Government. He has also been Director of the Department for International Development UK from 2011 to 2017.

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April 15, 2019
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Romain Wacziarg, professor of Economics at the University of California at Los Angeles, gave the Keynote Address of the 8th NCID Research Workshop titled Historical Barriers to the Wealth of Nations. “If you look at year 1 of the common era countries with most advanced technologies —military, etc— are still the most advanced today. Over centuries and millennia you have this consistence”, started Prof. Wacizarg. “The idea is that as p...

April 15, 2019
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Pedro Vicente, director at NOVAFRICA and professor at the Nova Business School presented the paper Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique, which he did together with NCID resident fellow Alex Armand. Pedro says the motivation behind this investigation was to combat the idea that having natural resources is automatically a problem. Results show that with information about natural resources citizens become more optimistic regarding future benefits, whilst there is increased citizen mobilization and trust and ther...

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