NOVAFRICA Seminar: “Keeping Up with the Joneses: Relative Performance Feedback and Business Performance”
On Wednesday, September 19th, at 14.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Julia Seither from the Nova SBE, to present her work. Author: Julia Seither (Nova SBE) Abstract: In... Read More
NOVAFRICA Working Paper: “Keep It Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing in Social Networks”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Cátia Batista, Marcel Fafchamps and Pedro Vicente this paper analyzes the information... 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
Annual Report 2016
Since its creation in 2011, the NOVAFRICA center has produced substantial output in the field of business and economic development in African countries. Specifically, we... Read More
NOVAFRICA Program: First MDI in Portuguese
NOVAFRICA organized the first Management Development Institute (MDI) in Portuguese, which occurred from 03 to 09 December 2017 in Maputo, Mozambique. The MDI is a... Read More
ENDLESS – My 2017 Summer Research Internship Experience
First word that comes to my mind every time I open my eyes in this land. Everything is GRAND: the Nature, the relationships, the land... Read More
My 2017 NOVAFRICA Internship in Cabo Delgado
The procedure could be compared to eating a 5 course menu at a multi-cultural cuisine and evaluating the exotic tastes without knowing anything about where the ingredients... Read More
VCW’17 Conference | October 9
NOVAFRICA endorses the “Innovation and Science for Social Impact” Conference organized by VCW on October 9, 2017. This conference will focus on projects and institutions working... Read More
NOVAFRICA Working Paper:
“Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from Smallholder Farmers in Mozambique”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Cátia Batista and Pedro Vicente this paper analyzes the access to... Read More
Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from Smallholder Farmers in Mozambique
ISSN 2183-0843 Working Paper No 1705 August 2017 Abstract Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be... Read More
