Alex Armand , researcher of the University of Navarra, has been awarded two grants from the Ramón Areces Foundation and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). Thanks to them he will carry out two programs of study on countries in development, focused on investment in Education and in the transparent management of natural resources . Alex Armand is a member of the Navarra Center for International Development (NCID), one of the lines of the Institute for Culture and Society.

With the financial aid of the Ramón Areces Foundation, Armand will conduct the project 'Towards an understanding of parental expectations of returns from Education in countries at development'.

It aims to understand how the subjective expectations of parents in low-income households about the benefits of schooling for their children - future income possibilities - are formed, how these expectations evolve over time, and whether they explain future decisions about children's Education . 

Analyzing the imbalance in Mozambique

The scholarship of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) will go to 'On the mechanics of the political resource curse: information and local elite behavior in Mozambique', a project directed by researcher of the NCID and developed jointly with Pedro Vicente, from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal).

The initiative will examine the cause of the imbalance that exists in Mozambique, which despite being a country with a wealth of natural resources, is one of the poorest nations in the world. To this end, Armand will analyze how information on the management of natural resources influences the behaviors of the country's elites and citizens.

The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) is an international association that provides grants to promote for evidence-based development policies and programs in low- and middle-income countries. Its three main sources of funding are the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UKaid - through department from development International - and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.