NOVAFRICA News: NOVAFRICA publications in 2023
2023 was a productive year for NOVAFRICA researchers! Several articles were published in impactful journals about topics including political economy, international migration, natural resources, education,... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Catia Batista and Pedro Vicente published in the Review of Economics and Statistics
The paper “Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment” written by NOVAFRICA scientific directors Cátia Batista and Pedro C. Vicente is... Read More
People of NOVAFRICA: Stefan Leeffers
Stefan Leeffers, from the Netherlands, is a husband, father of three daughters, a consultant at the World Bank and a PhD candidate in Economics at... 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... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: NOVAFRICA supports Female Empowerment!
On 2022 International Women’s Day, NOVAFRICA celebrates and suppports female empowerment. In Mozambique we reduced the gender profit gap by providing female-led businesses with management... Read More
NOVAFRICA Working Paper “Closing the Gender Profit Gap”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Catia Batista, Sandra Sequeira, and Pedro Vicente, this paper examines... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: new AEA P&P article on the adoption of mobile money in Mozambique
Congratulations to Catia Batista and Pedro C. Vicente, scientific directors of NOVAFRICA at Nova School of Business and Economics, for their article “Adopting Mobile Money:... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: congratulations to Cátia Batista and Pedro Vicente
Congratulations to Cátia Batista and Pedro Vicente, Scientific Directors of NOVAFRICA, for their article published in World Development. The article entitled “Improving Access to Savings... Read More
NOVAFRICA Working Paper: “Adopting Mobile Money Evidence From An Experiment in Rural Africa”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Papers Series. Written by Catia Batista and Pedro C. Vicente, this paper describes the mobile... Read More
NOVAFRICA in the Spotlight
On July 3rd, 2018, Cátia Batista and Pedro Vicente gave an interview to the University of Notre Dame. Catia and Pedro discussed their three-year study on mobile money... Read More
