NOVAFRICA Seminar: Goals for Development: Experimental Evidence from Cassava Processors in Ghana
On Friday, May 06th, at 02.30pm (Lisbon time), on Room D – 106 the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Patricio Dalton from the Tilburg University to present his work on “Goals for Development: Experimental Evidence from Cassava Processors in Ghana”. Author: Patricio Dalton Abstract: Workers’ motivation is a constraint for small firm growth in low-income countries. In this paper... Read More
NOVAFRICA Podcast: Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment
Listen here to the third series of the “NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks” Podcast. This series of audio talks about development in Africa brings together experts from a wide range of institutions. Alex Armand, resident member of NOVAFRICA and Assistant Professor at Nova SBE, is the coordinator of this Podcast. Join us! Season 3 #Episode 8:... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar: The Management of the Pandemic and its Effects on Trust and Accountability
On Friday, April 29th, at 02.30pm (Lisbon time), on Room B -133 the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Monica Martinez-Bravo from the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies to present her work on “The Management of the Pandemic and its Effects on Trust and Accountability”. Author: Monica Martinez-Bravo Abstract: The management of the COVID-19 pandemic represented one of the greatest... Read More
Congratulations to Joana Cardim for her PhD defense!
Congratulations to Joana Cardim for the successful defense of her PhD thesis on “Essays in Economics of Education and Development”. The NOVAFRICA center is proud of the accomplishment of Joana Cardim who successfully completed her PhD in Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics. Joana was an active part of several NOVAFRICA research projects in... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar: “Predicting conflict”
On Friday, April 22th, at 02.30pm (Lisbon time), on Room D -115 the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Christopher Rauh from the University of Cambridge to present his work on Predicting conflict. Author: Christopher Rauh Abstract: In this project we propose a framework to tackle conflict prevention, an issue which has received interest in several policy areas. A key challenge of conflict... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar: “Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment”
On Wednesday, April 13th, at 02.30pm (Lisbon time), on Room B 134 the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Gharad Bryan from the London School of Economics to present his work on Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment. Author: Gharad Bryani Abstract: We experimentally study the impact of substantially larger enterprise loans, in... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: IGC Blog about “Closing the gender profit gap” NOVAFRICA project
Read the IGC blog on the “Closing the gender profit gap through savings and training: Evidence from Mozambique” NOVAFRICA research project. A project developed by Cátia Batista, scientific director of NOVAFRICA, Pedro Vicente, scientific director of NOVAFRICA, and Sandra Sequeira from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Learn more .
NOVAFRICA News: Call for papers for NOVAFRICA Phd Workshop
The call for papers for the pre-conference PhD Workshop on Economic Development is open! The initiative of NOVAFRICA PhD students will take place on June 21 at Nova School of Business and Economics, Nova SBE, campus in Lisbon, Portugal. Know more here.
NOVAFRICA News: Professor Alex Armand wins ERC grant
Congratulations to Professor Armand Alex! The NOVAFRICA Nova School of business and Economics researcher won a grant from the European Research Council on Development Economics. The global impact of coastal water contamination on economic development is the winning project. Watch the video .
NOVAFRICA News: Catia Batista analyzes on SIC Notícias TV why legal pathways are important for Ukranian refugees and African migrants
Legal pathways are essential for both Ukrainian refugees and African migrants to Europe. The opinion of Cátia Batista, NOVAFRICA scientific director on SIC Notícias about the migration flows caused by the war in Ukraine. Watch the video here.