Between 2005 and 2015 the Government of Peru underwen a nation-wide expansion of sewerage infrastructure. What they didn't expect was for this to have an effect on infant and under-five mortality. Mortality increased a 6% on average at each district where a new sewerage project was constructed.
"In low and middle income countries there is a lot of unfinished mega projects", said Antonella Bancalari, job market candidate who visited the NCID last friday 17th of January to present her paper 'Unintended Consequences of Infrastructure Development: Sewerage and Early-lif...
The Navarra Center for International Development (NCID) started receiving job market candidates yesterday, January 15, with the visit of Jonathan Lehne, who is finishing his Ph.D. at the Paris School of Economics. Lehne presented the paper 'Irrigation vs education: The long-run effects of opium cultivation in British India,' where he studies the long-term implications of British colonial policies regarding opium.
He starts by assuming that colonial policies still have consequences and manifestations in developing countries, and the paper tries to establish why. In his own words, w...
Resident Fellow Jaime Millan represented the Navarra Center for International Development at the IX Annual Meeting of the Institute for Culture and Society, which had the theme 'Development and social links (III): violence'. His presentation was titled "Boom of of income and armed violence: the case of palm cultivation in Colombia", an insight into his future publication which focused on the relationship between palm cultivation, paramilitary, violence and displacements in Colombia.
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