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March 07, 2014
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Pedro Mendi a resident fellow researcher at the Navarra Center of International Development (NCID) presented his paper on Informality and Innovation. The paper studies the relationship between competition against informal firms and innovation activities by formal firms. It makes use of the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey data. “One of the assumptions is that informal sector firms produce goods inferior to firms in the formal sector,” mentioned Pedro. “I found a positive correlation between the introduction of an innovation and intensity of competition against informal sector firms”...

February 03, 2014
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The director of the Navarra Center for International Development (NCID), Luis Ravina, traveled to South Africa in order to expand the network of researchers and foundations that the center already has in the country. One of the research assistants, Pierce King, accompanied him on the trip.

Luis Ravina had a meeting with the Spanish Ambassador to South Africa, Juan Sell, as well as the trade commissioner of the Economics and Commercial Office of Spain in Johannesburg, Enrique Manzanares Carbonell

In addition, Luis met with François Bonnici, who is the Director of the Ber...

January 28, 2014
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Anna Tompsett from the University of Columbia presented a paper titled: "Bridges Transport Infrastructure and Economic Geography on the Mississippi and Ohio 1860-2000". “This paper is really about how infrastructure influences economic structure,” she said. “Governments and international markets will spend up to $45 billion between now and 2050 on infrastructure projects”, and after a pause for effect she continued, “85% of this will be in non-OECD countries...thESE ARE the developing countries.”

She originally extracted her data from the National Bridge Inve...

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