It is an informative, descriptive and awareness-raising campaign on the main challenges facing Guatemala. The campaign was carried out during the months of May, July, August and October in partnership with the Connected Cities Foundation, PNUD and CINDERE-NCID.
...The NCID Resident Fellow Tijan Bah organized a day's workshop in The Gambia to talk to stakeholders about his project on the intentions of Gambian youth to irregulary migrate to Europe. The research project intends to give information to youngsters on the risk of travelling and offer vocational training programmes to the youth.
Video by NOVAFRICA.
...Resident Fellow Ignacio Campomanes tells us about his paper The Political Economy of Inequality, Mobility and Redistribution.
How does the interaction between inequality and social mobility affect the choice of fiscal policy? I analyze this question in a model of democratic politics with imperfect tax enforcement, where the ability of individuals to evade taxes limits the amount of redistribution in the economy. Social mobility creates an insurance motive that increases voluntary compliance, favoring the t...