Conferencia inaugural del Dr. Stefan Dercon en el evento África, un presente con futuro, celebrado el 30 de mayo de 2019 en Casa Árabe, Madrid y organizado por el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación y el Navarra Center for International Development.
Stefan Dercon es director del Centre for the Study of African Economies de la Universidad de Oxford y profesor de la Blavatnik School of Government. De 2011 a 2017 fue el director del Departamento de Desarrollo Internacional del Gobierno del Reino Unido.
...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...
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...