NOVAFRICA fireside chat in the EurAfrican Forum: “Digital Education in Pandemic Times”
The NOVAFRICA session in the EurAfrican Forum debated the topic “Digital Education on Pandemic Times”.
News
New NOVAFRICA Working Paper: “Let’s Call! Using the Phone to Increase Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Alex Armand, Mattia Fracchia, and Pedro Vicente this paper develops and tests experimentally three phone-based cumulative interventions to increase COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Mozambique. First, the provision of a simple positive message informing about these vaccines.
Entrenched Political Dynasties and Development under Competitive Clientelism: Evidence from Pakistan
On Wednesday, October 13th, at 02.30 pm, Lisbon time, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Jean-Philippe Platteau from University de Namur to present his work on Entrenched Political Dynasties and Development under Competitive Clientelism: Evidence from Pakistan.
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 paper proposes a novel corruption game to characterize the interaction between actual political leaders and citizens and implement it in Northern Mozambique.
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 School of Business and Economics library, Teresa e Alexandre Soares dos Santos, on September 7 at 10.30 am.
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.