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Tanzania

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12/09/2022
Wayne Sandholtz: "Policies that improve access to secondary school may have bigger knock-on effects than what we thought"
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Tanzania, Kenia

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08/03/2022
Raúl Bajo, NCID researcher: "Three quarters of the 800 million people without access to electricity are in Sub-Saharan Africa"
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Nigeria

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21/02/2022
10 barrios menos en un abrir y cerrar de ojos
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23/02/2019
Nigeria: el Goliat africano va a las urnas
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19/10/2017
El fuel que mata miles de bebés cada año en Nigeria
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17/10/2017
Dr. Arinze Nwokolo presents his thesis on the economic effects of civil conflict in Nigeria
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Working Papers

WP04/2018
Oil Price Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Nigeria
Arinze Nwokolo
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WP03/2017
The effect of oil spills on infant mortality: Evidence from Nigeria
Anna Bruederle, Roland Hodler
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WP04/2014
The relationship between oil prices and the Nigerian stock market. An analysis based on fractional integration and cointegration
Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, OlaOluwa S. Yaya
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WP07/2013
Banking Consolidation in Nigeria, 2000-2010
Carlos Pestana Barros, Guglielmo Maria Caporale
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Kenya, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa

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18/08/2021
Justicia y defensa de la democracia en África subsahariana
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Gambia,-The

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27/07/2021
Information Gaps and Irregular Migration
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27/07/2021
Intentions of Gambian youth to migrate to Europe: effects of Covid-19
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27/07/2021
NCID Resident Fellow presents irregular migration project at The Gambia
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Working Papers

WP05/21
How Has COVID-19 Affected the Intention to Migrate via the Backway to Europe and to a Neighboring African Country? Survey Evidence and a Salience Experiment in The Gambia
Tijan Bah, Catia Batista, Flore Gubert, David McKenzie
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South-Africa, Kenya, Guatemala, Philippines

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01/07/2021
Figures of the Month: Education
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03/05/2021
Figures of the Month: Financial Markets
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Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia

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17/05/2021
Las aerolíneas estatales africanas, embajadas voladoras demasiado caras de mantener
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Guinea, Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa

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12/04/2021
El golfo de Guinea ya se ha convertido en el centro de la piratería mundial
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Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East-Asia, Latin-America-&-The-Caribbean, South-Africa, Kenya, Philippines, Guatemala

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09/04/2021
Figures of the Month: Trade
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Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan

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18/03/2021
El debate en África entre centralizar el poder y cedérselo a las regiones
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Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Somalia

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02/03/2021
Somalia, en el limbo político
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Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South-Africa, Kenya, Guatemala, Philippines

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01/03/2021
Figures of the Month: Macroeconomics
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Spain, Kenya, Tanzania, Mexico, Peru

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03/02/2021
Three job market candidates visit the NCID
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Kenya, Guatemala, South-Africa, Philippines

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01/02/2021
Figures of the Month: Demography
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Kenya

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16/01/2021
Kenia, la apuesta por la descentralización para unir al país
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06/08/2020
Kenia, la frágil estabilidad del aliado de Occidente en África
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10/05/2020
Una casa a oscuras no es un hogar
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05/05/2020
Raúl Bajo-Buenestado: The Effect of Blackouts on Households’ Electrification Status: evidence from Kenya
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05/12/2018
NCID visits Nairobi to strengthen research collaboration
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02/05/2017
From Nairobi to Pamplona
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02/05/2017
From Nairobi to Pamplona: 25 students undertake a course on development
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31/03/2017
25 students from Kenya participate in development research course organized by the NCID
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02/11/2016
When the security vs humanity debate goes far beyond Europe: The case of Kenya
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25/05/2016
What makes this central banker popular?
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22/03/2016
Waiting on a transformation: When will ICT make good on its governance potential?
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19/02/2016
“In poor countries a lot of the labor force works in very small firms”
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15/02/2016
Tables Turned: How Kenya’s President has indicted the International Criminal Court
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08/02/2016
“The success of micro-savings initiatives is driven by these novel technologies that rely on insights from behavior economics and advancements in mobile money technologies”
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18/01/2016
Water Provision in Kenya: Problems and challenges in managing finite resources
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08/10/2015
NCID researcher visits Strathmore University for research collaboration and to teach
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10/06/2015
La Fundación MODERNA y el NCID organizan un workshop en Kenia
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11/03/2015
NCID hosts 'Transparency in Extractives' workshop in Kenya
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21/03/2014
Tourism sector in Kenya, a publication by the NCID researcher Luis A. Gil-Alaña
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27/11/2013
Researcher Luis A. Gil-Alaña spends a week in Nairobi, Kenya
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01/10/2013
A view of Kenya: some recent papers based on fractional integration
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20/05/2013
Laura Guibert will present her thesis at an OECD conference in Paris
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Book Reviews

An Experiment in Devolution: National Unity and the Deconstruction of the Kenyan State
David Soler Crespo
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It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower
David Soler Crespo
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Country Reports

CR/KENYA
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Occasional Papers

OP01/2020
Support for Devolution in Kenya: A Multilateral Analysis
David Soler Crespo
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Working Papers

WP02/2020
The Effect of Blackouts on Households’ Electrification Status: evidence from Kenya
Raúl Bajo-Buenestado
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WP05/2013
Persistence, long memory and seasonality in Kenyan tourism series
Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Robert Mudida
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WP06/2012
Nominal exchange rates in Kenya. Are shocks transitory or permanent? An empirical investigation based on fractional integration
Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Robert Mudida
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Ethiopia

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03/12/2020
Ahmed ha fallado y Etiopía se tambalea
By NCID
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31/08/2020
La división étnica, obstáculo a la estabilidad en Etiopía
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14/10/2019
Abiy Ahmed, el Nobel de la Paz que intenta cambiar el rumbo de Etiopía
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21/05/2018
Removal of school fees reduced fertility and family size in Ethiopia
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Mozambique

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21/09/2020
El yihadismo en Mozambique que amenaza el sur de Africa
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22/01/2020
Inês Vilela (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): Diffusion of Rival Information in the Field
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14/06/2019
Alex Armand presents paper at Barcelona GSE Summer Forum
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15/04/2019
Information in hands of all the community helps to break the natural resource curse
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26/10/2018
School Attendance in Developed Countries: A Matter of Motivation
By NCID
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01/01/2016
Enseñando a ahorrar a los más pobres
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06/10/2015
Alex Armand receives funding from 3IE as co-investigator on major Mozambique project
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29/09/2014
A NCID PhD student worked with a project focused on financial education in Mozambique
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Working Papers

WP01/2019
Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique
Alex Armand, Pedro Vicente, Alexander Coutts, Inês Vilela
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South-Africa

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01/03/2020
De por qué los afrikáners le entregaron Sudáfrica a Mandela
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12/02/2020
NCID pays a fruitful research visit to South Africa
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02/05/2019
La decepción con el partido fundado por Mandela fragua un fin de ciclo en Sudáfrica 25 años después del apartheid
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13/02/2017
NCID Director Visits South Africa
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18/10/2016
The Apple of Discord: South African Education
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18/02/2016
The Director of NCID visits South Africa
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16/02/2016
South African Parliament to review laws passed since the end of apartheid
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10/04/2015
El NCID y la Fundación Moderna visitan Sudáfrica como parte de un proyecto que desarrollan conjuntamente
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03/02/2014
Luis Ravina, director of the NCID, visits South Africa
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09/09/2013
“Reducing crime in South Africa: procedural justice model in a diverse society”
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Working Papers

WP09/2013
Cooperation with the police in a diverse society: the case of South Africa
Álvaro Morcillo
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WP04/2013
Multinational corporations as channels for international technology transfer: evidence from the South African innovation survey
Nazeem Mustapha, Pedro Mendi
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WP01/2013
Testing for persistence with breaks and outliers in South African house prices
Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Goodness C. Aye, Rangan Gupta
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WP03/2013
Return migration to South Africa: reasons and socioeconomic profile
Álvaro Morcillo, Rashmi Bhat
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South-Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola, Tanzania

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05/12/2019
Infieles a sus principios
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Namibia

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31/10/2019
Namibia: la recesión y la desigualdad ponen a prueba al partido en el poder
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30/05/2019
Namibia, el pequeño gran país del sur de África
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Botswana

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07/10/2019
La estabilidad democrática de Botsuana a prueba
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Rwanda, Kenya

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02/10/2019
NCID visits Rwanda for first time
By NCID
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South-Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania

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19/09/2019
Renovarse o morir: los movimientos de liberación del sur de África
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Zimbabwe

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18/09/2019
Icono panafricanista y dictador ególatra
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Zambia

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03/06/2019
Tumbar barreras a dos ruedas
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Liberia

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15/04/2019
Outsourcing education improved education results but had same cost and brought abuses
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12/02/2018
Coercive measures during the Ebola outbreak led to an increase in civil violence
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Burkina-Faso

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07/04/2019
Burkina Faso: un oasis de seguridad convertido en polvorín del Sahel
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Senegal

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01/03/2019
Senegal, la estabilidad democrática a prueba
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25/01/2016
Researcher from PSE presents paper on a field experiment in Senegal
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Cameroon

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19/02/2019
Camerún, un país para dos colonias
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19/01/2016
Research explores the French and Bristish colonialism legacy in Cameroun
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Sub-Saharan-Africa

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20/11/2018
Belén Gesto: "Every year 70 million more people live at slums"
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19/11/2018
Reinhard König: "We try to combine the human and machine intelligence"
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12/11/2018
NCID workshop analyzes cutting-edge research on urban issues in developing countries
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08/11/2018
World Urbanism Day: "90% of people in South Sudan and CAR live in informal settlements"
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24/10/2018
Term limits can help promote African democracies. But they are no magic wand
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28/09/2018
Is it time for investment in Africa?
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07/05/2018
Large income gaps between urban and rural areas can not be explained by disamenities
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13/02/2018
World Radio Day: a project led by NCID researchers, published at El País Planeta Futuro
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13/02/2018
World Radio Day 2018: words can be more powerful than weapons
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20/11/2017
Official language choice can have a determinant effect on the development of a country
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27/04/2017
Liberation Technology: Mobile Phones and Political Mobilization in Africa
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17/11/2014
“El uso de nuevas tecnologías en las empresas conlleva un aumento de la productividad y con ello una mejora en el nivel de vida de los trabajadores”
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14/10/2013
Fractional Integration in the West African Economic and Monetary Union
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11/10/2013
The influence of services on firm productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
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14/05/2013
II Navarra Development Week
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25/02/2013
Weekly Seminar. "Teacher Absenteeism and the Salience of Local Ethnic Diversity: Evidence from African Districts". Eoin McGuirk
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10/12/2012
Weekly Seminar. "The propagation of mobile payment innovations in Africa". Ignacio Mas
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Working Papers

WP04/2017
The Health Costs of Ethnic Distance: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Joseph Flavian Gomes
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WP12/2015
African Growth, Non-Linearities and Strong Dependence: An Empirical Study
Borja Balparda, Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña
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WP11/2015
Exchange Rate Dynamics and Monetary Unions in Africa: A Fractional Integration and Cointegration Analysis
Borja Balparda, Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Guglielmo Maria Caporale
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WP02/2014
The influence of services on firm productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ethiopia, Eritrea

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02/10/2018
A New Years gift in the Horn of Africa?
By NCID
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Rwanda

News

01/02/2018
Community meetings fostered acceptance of violence prior to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
By NCID
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01/12/2015
Project by Oxford scholar puts the contestation between diversity and democracy in Kenya into perspective
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23/11/2015
“This communication between individuals led to change in behavior and in particular this kind of social learning led to an increase in contributions”
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Book Reviews

Rwanda is watching you
David Soler Crespo
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Uganda

News

05/10/2017
Two NCID researchers receive a two-year grant from Fundación Ramón Areces for a study on the effects of radio messaging on armed group behavior
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Working Papers

WP09/2015
Monetary Policy in a Developing Country: Loan Applications and Real Effects
Camelia Minoiu, Charles Abuka, Ronnie K. Alinda, Jose-Luis Peydro, Andrea F. Presbitero
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Latin-America-&-The-Caribbean, Sub-Saharan-Africa, East-Asia-and-Pacific

News

03/03/2017
“Geopolitical interests shape decisions when investing in development projects”
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Benin

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30/01/2017
A New Generation of Economists to Promote Africa's Development
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24/11/2016
Memorandum of Understanding with the African School of Economics
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Congo,-Dem.-Rep.

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17/11/2016
Making conflict-free minerals a reality in DR Congo
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13/04/2016
Research analyzes informal taxes on the Congo River
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13/05/2015
Seminar on incentivizing healthcare providers in DRC
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Book Reviews

Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention
Paul Atwell
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Angola

News

21/09/2016
Exposure to a new political system during wartime leads to higher participation after conlict
By NCID
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Working Papers

WP01/2014
Long memory in Angolan macroeconomic series: mean reversion versus explosive behaviour
Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, Carlos Pestana Barros, Guglielmo Maria Caporale
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Sub-Saharan-Africa, East-Asia-and-Pacific, South-East-Asia, Europe-and-Central-Asia, Latin-America-&-The-Caribbean

News

23/02/2016
Maternal mortality and gender prejudice
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Thailand, Mozambique

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06/11/2015
Alex Armand presents Mozambique project at the 4th International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities
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Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

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05/10/2015
NCID researcher collaborates with Springer's “Advances in African Economics, Social and Political Development”
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Central-African-Republic, Middle-East-and-North-Africa, South-Africa, Sub-Saharan-Africa

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25/09/2015
Energy and infrastructure, the two sectors with the greatest potential for Spanish investment in Africa
By NCID
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South-Africa, Sub-Saharan-Africa, Middle-East-and-North-Africa

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22/09/2015
“To invest in this continent you need to understand it as a local”
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Latin-America-&-The-Caribbean, East-Asia-and-Pacific, South-East-Asia, Sub-Saharan-Africa

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08/09/2015
Héctor Cárcel delivers a workshop on time series and their use in macroeconomic analysis of country unions
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Spain, Sub-Saharan-Africa

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12/03/2015
Economic freedom translates to the increased welfare of a population, improvements in education and increased per capita income
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Ukraine, Russian-Federation, Latin-America-&-The-Caribbean, Kenya

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12/02/2015
Three research assistants participate in UNMUN
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Kenya, Mozambique

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14/01/2015
The NCID receives proposal preparation grant from the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
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Kenya, South-Africa

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10/09/2014
The NCID and the MODERNA Foundation work together to implement strategies for development in Kenya and South Africa
By NCID
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Middle-East-and-North-Africa, Sub-Saharan-Africa, East-Asia-and-Pacific

News

09/06/2014
“In many African countries the education level has improved but it does not meet the needs of the labor market”
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Kenya, Ghana, Uganda

Book Reviews

The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa
David Soler Crespo
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South-Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe

Book Reviews

Liberation movements in power: party and state in Southern Africa
David Soler Crespo
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Sub-Saharan-Africa, Latin-America-&-The-Caribbean, South-East-Asia, East-Asia-and-Pacific

Book Reviews

Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day
Isabel Villamor
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South-Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique, Angola, Tanzania

Occasional Papers

OP02/2019
The Slow Death of Liberation Movements in Southern Africa
David Soler Crespo
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Congo,-Dem.-Rep., Uganda, Central-African-Republic, South Sudan

Working Papers

WP01/2017
The Reach of Radio: Defection Messaging and Armed Group Behavior
Alex Armand, Joseph Flavian Gomes
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Middle-East-and-North-Africa, Sub-Saharan-Africa, Latin-America-&-The-Caribbean

Working Papers

WP10/2015
Managing Innovation under Competitive Pressure from Informal Producers
Rodrigo Costamagna, Pedro Mendi
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Sub-Saharan-Africa, East-Asia-and-Pacific, South-East-Asia, Latin-America-&-The-Caribbean, Middle-East-and-North-Africa

Working Papers

WP05/2014
Do Institutions Alleviate Poverty? An Empirical Analysis
Maurizio Intartaglia, Juan Carlos Cuestas
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