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The seminars are an initiative that, since 1991, promotes research carried out in the areas of study of MDCI/ISEG/ULisboa and PDED/ISEG/ULisboa.     Development Studies Seminars 2024 Topic: “Capital Markets by Design? The rise of…

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CEsA has published the Working Paper no 198/2024, entitled “The Relevance of the Concept of Cumulative Causation: Understanding growth trajectories in Sub-Saharan Africa”, in English, authored by Alice Nicole Sindzingre. Professor Sindzingre is a CEsA…

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  Development Studies Seminars 2024 Theme: “Rice, Institutions, and the Wealth of Nations: The China Puzzle” Presenter: Xinpeng Xu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Date: February 29, 2024 (Thursday) Hour: 6 pm – 8 pm (Lisbon…

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CEsA has published its firts Working Paper in 2024 (no 197/2024), entitled “La Production Agricole des Femmes en Guiné-Bissau comme Moyen d´Afirmation de son Identité”, in French, authored by Carlos Sangreman and Mara Melo. Sangreman…

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The Centre for African and Development Studies (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa) and the coordination of the Masters in Development and International Cooperation (MDCI) and the PhD in Development Studies (PDED) Programmes at ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics…

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Take a look at CEsA – Centre for African and Development Studies (CSG/ISEG/ULisboa) events calendar for 2024….

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Events

Development Studies Seminars 2024 Development Studies Seminars 2024
Date: February 29 to May 30, 2024 - 6 pm - 8 pm
Venue: Novo Banco Room, ISEG
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CEsA’s 40th anniversary and MDCI’s 30th anniversary Celebrations of CEsA’s 40th anniversary and MDCI’s 30th anniversary
Date: May 9, 2024, 2:30 pm - 6 pm
Venue: ISEG, Lisbon ...
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III Meeting of Young Lusophone Commonwealth Researchers on Africa III Meeting of Young Lusophone Commonwealth Researchers on Africa 2024 (EJICPLP)
Theme: The role of Science as a contribution to achieving the 2030 Agenda
Date: March 27-29, 2024
Luanda, Angola ...
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Publications

Working Paper 199/2024: Literatura e Ecologia: Representações da água em romances angolanos e moçambicanos Working Paper 199/2024: Literatura e Ecologia: Representações da água em romances angolanos e moçambicanos Abstract:
This article offers a brief cartography of the narrative role of water in Angolan and Mozambican literature, through a comparative reading of four novels: O desejo de Kianda (1995) by the Angolan Pepetela; De Rios Velhos e Guerrilheiros. I. O Livro dos Rios (2006) by
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Working Paper 198/2024: The Relevance of the Concept of Cumulative Causation: Understanding growth trajectories in Sub-Saharan Africa Working Paper 198/2024: The Relevance of the Concept of Cumulative Causation: Understanding growth trajectories in Sub-Saharan Africa Abstract:
Differences in growth trajectories among countries - including the possibility of divergence -, are a central issue in economics. Mainstream economics explain growth processes via varieties of neoclassical models, even improved with concepts such as institutions. Yet such models have difficulties in providing accurate accounts
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Working Paper 197/2024: La Production Agricole des Femmes en Guiné-Bissau comme Moyen d´Afirmation de son Identité Working Paper 197/2024: La Production Agricole des Femmes en Guiné-Bissau comme Moyen d´Afirmation de son Identité Abstract:
This working paper is an intermediate product of the study done for Swiss Cooperation in Guinea-Bissau, written in French without any point in Portuguese. What we demonstrate, as well as the principles of restitution and appropriation by the persons or institutions that access to respond
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Understanding Social Realities of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria (FCT), Abuja Understanding Social Realities of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria (FCT), Abuja Abstract:
This article examines the social realities of forcibly displaced persons in Nigeria, with a focus on internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Nigeria, Abuja. Internally displaced persons are individuals who have been forced from their homes or habitual places of
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From Angola to Portugal: Narrating Migration, Memory and Identity in Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s Work From Angola to Portugal: Narrating Migration, Memory and Identity in Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's Work Abstract:
Based on the teoretichal perspetives of Lusophone Postcolonial Studies, in dialogue with other analytic tools from Feminist Studies, this chapter aims to explore the topics of migration, memory and identity through the close reading of two works of fiction by the Portuguese writer of African
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African women’s trajectories and the Casa dos Estudantes do Império, Ethnic and Racial Studies African women’s trajectories and the Casa dos Estudantes do Império, Ethnic and Racial Studies Abstract:
This article compares the trajectories of different women who crossed the Casa dos Estudantes do Império (CEI), a formal institution created in Lisbon by students from the colonies with the support of the Portuguese dictatorial regime in 1944, that became a platform for anti–colonialism. Due
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