NCID Resident Fellow Alex Armand presented last 14th June at the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. Armand presented the paper Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique, written jointly with Alexander Coutts, Pedro C. Vicente and Ines Vilela.
The investigation adresses the political resource curse, which is the idea that natural resources can lead to the deterioration of public policies through corruption and rent-seeking by those...
Ignoring Africa would be a mistake. With those words by Navarra Center for International Development (NCID) Director Luis Ravina kicked off the event Africa, a present reality. An event where all panelists agreed on a conclusion: Africa offers much more opportunities than problems has and Spanish companies should deepen their presence in the continent.
The event, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation together with the NCID joined more than a dozen businessmen and representatives of public institutions to evaluate the different trends of Afric...
From how a bicycle can help empower girls in Zambia improving their safety and class attendance to how information and media can stop the spread of an epidemic such as Ebola or the curse of natural resources. Pioneering research was presented on the political economy of development at the 8th NCID Research Workshop, which was held on April 4 and 5 at the headquarters of the Fundación Ramón Areces in Madrid.
Projects were presented from all around the world. The first to present was Justin Sandefur, a researcher at the Center ...