The call for papers for the 8th NCID Research Workshop on Development Economics is open until the 31st of January. Please submit your paper in this link. You will see the box on the right hand of the page. Please make sure your paper is related to this year's topic of Political Economy of Development.
This year's keynote speaker is Romain Wacziarg, Professor of Economics, since 2015 Hans Hufschmid Cha...
More than 200 million women, mainly in Africa, suffer female genital cutting (FGC), a practice rooted in some societies as a moral duty for women, and somehow as an assumed cultural habit. Apart from the international initiatives that aim to stop it, not everyone understands why does FGC persist. And answering to that is a must to face it.
That is why Dr. Lucia Corno, Assistant Professor of economics at the Catholic University of Milan, and her colleagues Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University), Nathan Nunn (Harvard University), and Alessandra Voe...
More than 50 people gathered last Friday the 9th of November to attend the NCID Workshop on Urban Issues in Developing Countries. The event had presentations of three experts on different fields of urbanism: technology and artificial intelligence, theoretical and construction approach and finally a cartography approach joined with community participation.
The first one up was Prof. Reinhard König, who teaches Computational Architecture at Bauhaus-University Weimar. His presentation focused on how to use artificial intelligence...