On Tuesday, NCID hosted Elise Huillery, Assistant Professor of Economics at SciencesPo in Paris and Lab Affiliate with the Jameel Poverty Action Lab. She joined the NCID to present her recent research on the use and effects of financial incentives in the health sector in developing countries. The randomized experiment was carried out at 96 clinics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the results shed light on some key outcomes of performance-based financing in healthcare and in general.
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The Navarra Center for International Development will host the 4th annual Development Week at IESE Business School in Madrid the 1st and the 2nd of June, 2015.
Monday 1/6 will be devoted to a academic workshop on “Human Capital and Development†and Tuesday 2/6 will be center on an a...
NCID recently had the honor of hosting Professor Kaivan Munshi of University of Cambridge's Economics Faculty in Pamplona. Professor Munshi presented his recent work on the role of the caste system in India in defining economic and social trends. In the paper, he examines intra-cast support networks, or insurance, as they affect the likeliness of someone to migrate to the urban labor market.
Munshi summarized the context of the paper as the following. "The rural urban wage gap has exceed 25% for decades in India and at the same...