NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“Secondary school as a contraceptive: almost experimental evidence from Burundi”
On Wednesday, 11 May, at 2.30 pm, the NOVAFRICA Center hosted Philip Verwimp of the Université Libre de Bruxelles to present his work on the... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“The Reliability and Validity of Skills Measurement in Rural Household Surveys”
On Wednesday, April 13th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Karen Macours, from the Paris School of Economics to present her work on the reliability... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“Short-term Impacts of Entrepreneurship Skills Development”
On Wednesday, March 9th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Francisco Campos, from the World Bank to present his work on different entrepreneurship training schemes... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:“Girls’ Schooling Choices and Home Production: Evidence from Pakistan”
On Wednesday, November 25th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Hugo Reis, from the Bank of Portugal to present his work on children’s schooling and mothers’ labour... Read More
NOVAFRICA in the News: Horacio Larreguy on Voter’s Education and Voter’s Participation
On April 8th, NOVAFRICA invited an expert in his field – Horacio Larreguy – Professor at Harvard University and associated with several research institutes in Harvard such as the Center... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“Deliberate Disengagement: How Education Decreases Political Participation in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes”
On Wednesday, April 8th, at 2.00pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Horacio Larreguy, from Harvard University to present his work on education, political participation, and deliberate disengagement in electoral authoritarian... Read More
NOVAFRICA Welcomes First Student For the Kofi Annan Business School Foundation Scholarship
During the annual board meeting of the Kofi Annan Business School Foundation, that took place on october 16th and 17th at Nova SBE, NOVAFRICA also... Read More
Investing in Education in Africa
In a previous article, I wrote about the launch conference of the NOVAFRICA center held at the beginning of September and attended by the Dean... Read More
Quality Primary Education: The New Challenge also in Angola?
Several international surveys have recently shown that the great challenge levels are still very weak knowledge of primary school students in developing countries. For example,... Read More
