Romain Wacziarg, professor of Economics at the University of California at Los Angeles, gave the Keynote Address of the 8th NCID Research Workshop titled Historical Barriers to the Wealth of Nations. “If you look at year 1 of the common era countries with most advanced technologies —military, etc— are still the most advanced today. Over centuries and millennia you have this consistence”, started Prof. Wacizarg. “The idea is that as p...
Pedro Vicente, director at NOVAFRICA and professor at the Nova Business School presented the paper Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique, which he did together with NCID resident fellow Alex Armand. Pedro says the motivation behind this investigation was to combat the idea that having natural resources is automatically a problem. Results show that with information about natural resources citizens become more optimistic regarding future benefits, whilst there is increased citizen mobilization and trust and ther...
Marta Reynal-Querol from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra presented her paper Early Human Capital and Development: the Case of Latin America at the 8th NCID Research Workshop. This paper approaches how first colonizers contributed to high human capital.
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