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March 25, 2014
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Marcos Vera from the University College London presented a paper “Can public sector managers be paid as CEOs?” The study involved understanding performance incentives for school administrators and how their responses vary with the amount of resources under their control. “School systems in developing-countries tend to be more developed than public health systems and as such are among the top ten solutions to address global challenges”, noted Marco. School managers of 170 schools in rural China...

March 21, 2014
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“Persistence, long memory and seasonality in Kenyan tourism series” a WP by Luis A. Gil-Alaña, Resident Fellow of the NCID, will be published in the forthcoming issue of the Annals of Tourism Research, the most important journal in the field. Robert Mudida, Non-Resident Fellow of the NCID and Fer...

March 18, 2014
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Close to 200 million poverty-stricken persons throughout the world (70% of which are women) have had access to financial services through microfinance institutions. This was expressed by María Jesús Pérez, general assistant director of the NGO CODESPA, who visited the Navarra Center for International Development of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at the Universidad de Navarra together with the general director of the organization, José Ignacio González-Aller.

One of the latest cooperation projects being developed by C...

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