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A talk with Jaime Millán-Quijano
On June 7th, 2017, Jaime Millán-Quijano gave a talk in the NOVAFRICA Seminar Series. His seminar was entitled “Internal Cocaine Trafficking And Armed Violence In ...
A talk with Francesca Marchetta
On April 27th, 2017, Francesca Marchetta gave a talk in the NOVAFRICA Seminar Series. Her seminar was entitled “The impact of weather events on work ...
A talk with Simone Bertoli
On April 26th, 2017, Simone Bertoli gave a talk in the NOVAFRICA Seminar Series. His seminar was entitled “Migration and co-residence choices”.
News
New NOVAFRICA Working Paper: “Measuring corruption in the field using behavioral games”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Alex Armand, Alexander Coutts, Pedro Vicente and Inês Vilela this ...
Visão magazine interviews Mattia Fracchia about NOVAFRICA Covid-19 vaccine study
Mattia Fracchia, one of NOVAFRICA’s researchers involved in the global study published in Nature Medicine about vaccines against COVID-19 was interviewed by Visão magazine.
NOVAFRICA joins forces with the Estoril Conferences
NOVAFRICA is the new partner of the Estoril Conferences – A Future of Hope.
“Africa in Transformation”, the new book by Carlos Lopes was launched at Nova SBE
Launch of the book “Africa in Transformation. Economic Development in the Age of Doubt”, by Carlos Lopes. The renowned Guinean economist will be at Nova ...
Welcome to the 2021 NOVAFRICA Fellows!
NOVAFRICA Welcomes the 2021 NOVAFRICA Fellows to the Nova School of Business and Economics
Special lecture by Paul Collier on “Can we make sense of development?
NOVAFRICA welcomes Sir Paul Collier from the University of Oxford for an inaugural lecture on Wednesday, September 1st @ 03.15 pm (Lisbon time).
Vaccine acceptance is higher in low-and middle- income countries
A new study published in Nature Medicine reveals that COVID-19 vaccine acceptance is higher in low- and middle-income countries than in richer countries.
Jornal de Negócios interviews Pedro Vicente about the conflict situation in Northern Mozambique
Pedro Vicente, scientific director of NOVAFRICA, in an interview with Jornal de Negócios emphasizes the need to promote economic development in Cabo Delgado in order ...
“Coordination and the Poor Maintenance Trap: an Experiment on Public Infrastructure in India”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series, written by Alex Armand, Britta Augsburg, and Antonella Bancalari.
Measuring policy impact on irregular migration from West Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic has initially decreased irregular migration to Europe by the poorest African youth. But more recently the migration numbers have been rising – ...
Workshop in The Gambia about Irregular Migration to Europe.
Join us online this Wednesday, July 7th, in a workshop that takes place in The Gambia about the NOVAFRICA project “Information Gaps and Irregular Migration ...