Migration is currently one of the issues with more attention at the international level, especially considering that migrants are around 3.5% of the global population and that several phenomena of forced migration are growing, which entails the objective of understanding its causes and implications. At the Navarra Center International Development, migration is a hot topic too. Actually, one of the papers presented at the recent NCID Workshop on Migration in November has been ...
The Galician diaspora in Latin America was one of the most significant European emigration surges of the twentieth century. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Galicia was the poorest region in Spain, it had mainly a rural economy, and was badly connected to the rest of the country. With that framework, most of the Galician migrants went to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Cuba looking for better opportunities, which not only had positive effects in the places where they settled but also in their hometowns in Galicia.
Contributing empirical evidence to that ...
In developing countries, there are communities were men and women don't have always the same decision-making powers when it comes to public issues. But what if women receive the same opportunities as men?
That is what Ana GarcÃa-Hernádez, a Ph.D. candidate at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, is trying to answer in her job market paper, which she presented at the Navarra Center for International Development (NCID) on Thursday, January 23. With a lab-in-the-field experiment in a rural community in Uganda, she explores what she calls the "agency mechanism," which is "the fact that indi...