The Navarra Center for International Development (NCID) of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) has two new researchers for the 2019-2020 academic year, who will work in different areas of Economics of development. They are Ignacio Campomanes, from the National Bureau of Economic Research (Boston, USA), and Jaime Millán, who has done research to date at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Ignacio Campomanes is graduate in Law and did a Master's Degree and doctorate at Economics at the University of Minnesota. His areas of study include political Economics , public Economics , macroeconomics and Economics of development. As he explains, his work at NCID will focus on Economics politics, inequality, fiscal policy and attendance for development.

Jaime Millán is also an associate consultant at Econometría S.A. (Colombia). He did a Master's Degree and doctorate in Economics at University College London (UK) and his focuses of research are applied microeconomics, development economics and public policy. At NCID she will initially work on microfinance in Latin America, assessment welfare impact and violence issues.

Alleviating extreme poverty through the research

The NCID is composed of an interdisciplinary team of economists, political scientists, journalists, historians and urban planners. It develops evidence-based research with a macro and micro approach to help alleviate extreme poverty in the world's poorest countries.

Their main areas of study are conflict, governance, Education, democracy, urban planning and institutional development , among others. They use techniques such as regression discontinuity design , fractional cointegration, difference-in-differences, etc. The center works in several countries, but has a special interest in three regions: Central America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.