The paper was presented by Javier Gardeázabal from the University of the Basque Country. It is a joint work with Todd Sandler – University of Texas at Dallas. The research focused on the role that Mobile/Fixed INTERPOL Network Database (MIND/FIND) has played in the War on Terror. MIND/FIND allows countries to systematically screen people and documents at border crossings against INTERPOL databases.
“INTERPOL has 190 member countries, whose assigned membership fees mostly fund the organization’s staff, infrastructure, and operations” began Javier, “accessible 24 hou...
Arinze Nwokolo a doctoral student at the Univeristy of Navarrra presented yesterday his paper titled Does Political Instability affect Economic Growth and Financial Development? at a Workshop of the NCID. “It is important to realise that previous studies on this topic have not been conclusive!”, Arinze said emphatically. “This is not surprising” he added, “because it is not clear whether political violence and political instability indicators are correlated with economic development.”
The paper brought together two different strands of literature o...
El investigador del Navarra Center for International Development, Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña ha pasado la semana del 18 l 22 de noviembre en la Universidad de Strathmore en Nairobi, Kenya. Luis Alberiko dio un curso intensivo de 10 horas en la Escuela de Negocios de la universidad sobre Econometría Financiera. “Acaba de lanzar esta escuela de negocios, y Robert Mudida , que es la persona encargada de las clases me propusieron dar este curso”, explicó Luis Alberiko. Además el investigador también ofreció una conferencia para los estudiantes de último año de Economía sob...