NOVAFRICA Vacancy for Research Internship
(Portugal)
NOVAFRICA is accepting applications for Research Internship. We are looking for a research intern to be integrated in the following ongoing NOVAFRICA field research project: Raising Educational Aspirations – An Experimental Evaluation (Portugal) Start date: August/September 2022. Duration: 6 months with the possibility of an extension. Location: Lisbon and/or Porto – Portugal. What you can expect: The... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: NOVAFRICA received Quelimane’s insignia!
NOVAFRICA received Quelimane’s insignia, the administrative capital of the Zambezia Province in Mozambique. Manuel Araujo, Mayor of Quelimane, was at Nova School of Business and Economics, Nova SBE, to give a Special Lecture on “Cities that work: the case of Quelimane, Mozambique”. Students and teachers attended the session in which Manuel Araújo highlighted the importance of the research... Read More
NOVAFRICA Student Group previews the NOVAFRICA seminar by Moussa P. Blimpo
Is there a positive impact of alleviating asymmetry in civic information on tax participation? How does more knowledge on taxation change tax participation and tax revenues? What constraints may governments face regarding the taxation of micro and informal enterprises (MIE) in Togo? On Friday, December 10th 2021, at 02:30 pm (Lisbon time), NOVAFRICA Knowledge Center... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar: Asymmetry in Civic Information: An Experiment on Tax Participation among Informal Firms in Togo
On Friday, December 10th, at 02.30 pm, Lisbon time, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Moussa Blimpo from the World Bank to present his work on Household Expenditure in the Wake of Terrorism: evidence from high-frequency in-home-scanner data. Author: Moussa Blimpo, World Bank Abstract: In low-income countries, a substantial wedge exists between firms’ knowledge of their tax obligations and... Read More
Who is afraid of urbanization?
Since the green revolution of the 1950s and 1960s, we have all believed that the development of the African continent involves improving its agricultural productivity. However, in most African countries, subsistence farming is the norm. So how can agricultural productivity be improved there? In theory, in two ways: 1. by improving the agricultural productivity of... Read More
Demystifying Migration
International migration flows have been growing in the last decades all over the world. At the same time, anti-migration policies are being widely adopted as migration is perceived as a threat by some natives. While claims such as that migrants threaten natives’ job opportunities or increase crime in the host country have received increasing attention... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Visit of the Governor of the Central Bank of Cape Verde
It was an honor to receive the visit of Oscar Santos, the Governor of the Central Bank of Cape Verde, at the NOVAFRICA Knowledge center. The central bank of Cape Verde is a partner of Nova SBE in the Master of International Development and Public Policy, and in NOVAFRICA research projects. This partnership was formalized in a... Read More
New NOVAFRICA Working Paper: Cousins From Overseas: The Labour Market Impact of Half a Million Portuguese Repatriates
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Lara Bohnet, Susana Peralta, and João Pereira dos Santos this paper investigates the repatriation consequences of the Portuguese Colonial War in 1974. Title: Cousins From Overseas: The Labour Market Impact of Half a Million Portuguese Repatriates Authors: Lara Bohnet (Nova School of... Read More
NOVAFRICA Student Group previews the NOVAFRICA seminar by Elena Stancanelli
How does the consumer behavior change due to terrorism? Elena Stancanelli from the Paris School of Economics will present the paper “Household Expenditure in the Wake of Terrorism: Evidence from high frequency in-home-scanner data” co-authored with Daniel Mirza and Thierry Verdier on Wednesday, November 24th, at 02:30 pm, Lisbon time. The research of the consumer... Read More
The impact of Covid-19 on intentions to migrate from Africa to Europe
The COVID-19 pandemic restricted the already limited opportunities to emigrate legally from Africa to Europe. Border closures were a mechanism used by most countries to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Although this mechanism made migration more difficult, it did not reduce the willingness to migrate, often irregularly – rather the opposite. Given this scenario,... Read More