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December 01, 2015
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Dominic Burbidge, lecturer and researcher at the University of Oxford, presented his research on “Democracy Versus Diversity: Ethnic Representation in a Devolved Kenya” as a seminar organized by the NCID at the University of Navarre.

“This title was chosen to juxtapose democracy and diversity, the idea being that a large proportion of the international community assumes that both of these things are good and compatible and we only tend to say we wonder if diversity is a threat to western democracy (migration)”, explained Dominic Bu...

November 23, 2015
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Alexander Coutts, assistant professor of Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) presented his research on “Social Learning in Experimental Games: Evidence from Rwanda” at the NCID Weekly Seminar session.

The researcher explained how artifactual and lab experiments are increasingly in applied in developing countries and is wary of some risks. “We have to make sure when doing experiments that they keep the same format and each person has acce...

November 06, 2015
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NCID researcher Alex Armand participated in the 4th International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities organized by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3IE) in Bangkok, Thailand. Armand presented the research project, jointly carried out with Pedro Vicente from Novafrica at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, titled

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