The Navarra Center for International Development (NCID) of the University of Navarra repeats for the fourth consecutive year as one of the best thinktanks in the world, according to the 2018 Global Go To Think tank Index Report prepared by the University of Pennsylvania (USA).

The NCID, which belongs to the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), remains the only Spanish center in the category of the best university think tanks in the world. It has improved its score with respect to last year, rising three places to 55 out of 90.

high school The Navarre center is ranked above other institutes linked to prestigious universities such as Princeton (USA), Harvard (USA), Oxford (UK) or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT (USA).

For the ranking, which the University of Pennsylvania has been carrying out since 2006, 8,162 think tanks have been analyzed in a process in which 68,191 journalists, legislators, public and private sponsors and other specialists have participated.

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The NCID is a research center that brings together an interdisciplinary team of economists, political scientists, journalists, historians and urban planners. Its efforts are focused on alleviating extreme poverty in the world's poorest countries by focusing on evidence-based research with a macro and micro approach .

Their main areas of study are conflict, governance, Education, democracy, urban planning and institutional development , among others. For this purpose, they use techniques such as discontinuous regression 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. In turn, its goal is to contribute to the public discussion on development through general contributions, including qualitative trend analysis, book reviews and country reports at development.

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