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Watch Topics in Development Studies Seminars 2022′ presentations
The Topics in Development Studies Serminars 2022 sessions were streamed online via Zoom and YouTube, from March 14th 2022 to June 6th 2022. The seminars were an iniciative made under the PhD in Development Studies. The sessions were broadcast online by Zoom from 14 March 2022 to 6 June 2022. The broadcasts are saved on the CEsA YouTube channel (access this link). Check them out:
“Decline Processes in Technologial Innovation Systems: lessons from energy technologies”, Nuno Bento (IP Viseu/ISCTE-IUL/IGOT), May 9, 2022.
Seminário/Seminar “Topics in Development Studies” 2022. 9 de maio de 2022 | May 9th 2022. Tema/Theme: “Decline Processes in Technologial Innovation Systems: lessons from energy technologies”. Oradora/Speaker: Nuno Bento (IP Viseu/ISCTE-IUL/IGOT). O seminário é uma iniciativa no âmbito do Programa de Doutoramento em Estudos de Desenvolvimento (PDED) (ISEG/ISA/IGOT/ICS). The seminar is an initiative within the scope of the PhD Program in Development Studies (PDED)(ISEG/ISA/IGOT/ICS).
“Four Crises in Global Neoliberalism: economy, politics, health, environment”, Alfredo Saad-Filho (King’s College, UK/ISEG), May 23, 2022.
Seminário/Seminar “Topics in Development Studies” 2022. 23 de maio de 2022 | May 23rd 2022. Tema/Theme: “Four Crises in Global Neoliberalism: economy, politics, health, environment”. Orador/Speaker: Alfredo Saad-Filho (King’s College, UK/ISEG). O seminário é uma iniciativa no âmbito do Programa de Doutoramento em Estudos de Desenvolvimento (PDED) (ISEG/ISA/IGOT/ICS). The seminar is an initiative within the scope of the PhD Program in Development Studies (PDED)(ISEG/ISA/IGOT/ICS).
“Smallholder’s Food Security Under Climate Change in Africa: a farming systems approach”, Mariam Abbas (ISA), June 6, 2022.
Seminário/Seminar “Topics in Development Studies” 2022. 6 de junho de 2022 | June 6th 2022. Tema/Theme: “Smallholder’s Food Security Under Climate Change in Africa: a farming systems approach”. Oradora/Speaker: Mariam Abbas (ISA). O seminário é uma iniciativa no âmbito do Programa de Doutoramento em Estudos de Desenvolvimento (PDED) (ISEG/ISA/IGOT/ICS). The seminar is an initiative within the scope of the PhD Program in Development Studies (PDED)(ISEG/ISA/IGOT/ICS).
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Working Paper 89/2011: Das limitações do PIB enquanto indicador às necessidades de medição dos níveis de desenvolvimento
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Das limitações do PIB enquanto indicador às necessidades de medição dos níveis de desenvolvimento seeks to problematise some limitations and shortcomings of the traditional tools for measuring the economic performance and development of States, such as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The need to consolidate and stimulate the improvement of alternative indicators and measures is stressed, so as to reduce the existing deficiencies in the current measurements of development that serve as reference. Using the valid definition of economy as the allocation of scarce resources to unlimited needs, we arrive at a concept of economic policy as the action of public authorities in economic domains aimed at obtaining previously chosen results (Amaral, 1996). It is interesting, then, to reflect on the fact that, without the construction of statistical instruments and indicators that allow us to assess the consequences and interpret the results deriving from political action, it will be difficult to provide consistent guidance for economic policy-making. It is in this context that we start our essay with a meditation on the possible weakness of the economic activity indicator most used by mainstream economists and politicians.
Quotation:
Damásio, Bruno e Luís Mah. 2011. “Das limitações do PIB enquanto indicador às necessidades de medição dos níveis de desenvolvimento”. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão. CEsA – Documentos de Trabalho nº 89/2011.
Working Paper 88/2010: A diáspora cabo-verdiana: percepções e redefinições a partir do arquipélago
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Using the valid definition of economics as the allocation of scarce resources to unlimited needs, we arrive at a conception of economic policy as the action of public authorities in economic domains aimed at obtaining previously chosen results (Amaral, 1996). (Amaral, 1996). It is interesting, then, to reflect on the fact that, without the construction of statistical instruments and indicators that allow us to assess the consequences and interpret the results deriving from political action, it will be difficult to provide consistent guidance for economic policy-making. It is in this context that we begin our essay with a meditation on the possible weakness of the economic activity indicator most used by mainstream economists and politicians. A diáspora cabo-verdiana: percepções e redefinições a partir do arquipélago seeks to problematise some limitations and insufficiencies of the traditional tools for measuring the economic performance and development of states, such as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The need to consolidate and stimulate the improvement of alternative indicators and measures is highlighted, so as to reduce the existing deficiencies in the current measurements of development that serve as reference.
Quotation:
Évora, Iolanda. 2010. “A diáspora cabo-verdiana: percepções e redefinições a partir do arquipélago”. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão – CEsA – Documentos de trabalho nº 88/2010.
Working Paper 87/2010: Mercado e trabalho: questões de género
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Mercado e trabalho: questões de género is based on reflections raised in observations made at fairs and markets in Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, within the scope of the Exploratory Visit project entitled “Free fairs and markets in the Portuguese-speaking space: work, sociability and income generation”. In this project, researchers from Brazil (Professor Leny Sato), Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, visited fairs and markets in the 3 countries and aimed to learn about important aspects of the daily dynamics of these organizational actions, of the processes that organize the work there. and some life trajectories of workers and agents who build micro-enterprises in these organizational contexts. The reflections that I bring here focus, above all, on situations observed in Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, because in these two countries the division of labor based on the gender category became much more visible, while the São Paulo fair shows much more work as a family occupation. The demand for development, autonomy and equality of opportunity in newly independent countries such as Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau is introduced at the heart of the inter-human relationship and the dynamics of equality ended up being introduced in a domain that had been hidden for a long time: the relationships between men and women. In these countries, in the period of socialism and currently – which many call post-socialist -, with the new project of society, we seek to demonstrate the equivalence between the sexes in an unequivocal way in the public, intellectual and social domain, with more favorable laws. to the legal status of working women, and at the same time, investment is made in the professional field of women. The political changes in these two countries go beyond changes in relation to access to employment and encompass the construction of new meanings for work and family activities, as well as changes in the feminine sense of women’s place in society. In other words, in the new political contexts, we are witnessing the drawing of new boundaries between the spheres of work and the family, but it is important to point out that changes in the relationships between work and family have different consequences for men and women in real life.
Quotation:
Évora, Iolanda. 2010. “Mercado e trabalho: questões de género”. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão. CEsA – Documentos de Trabalho nº 87/2010.
Working Paper 86/2010: Discursos sobre a diáspora cabo-verdiana: o olhar de quem ficou
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The interest in the subject of Discursos sobre a diáspora cabo-verdiana: o olhar de quem ficou is included in our broader proposal of studies on Cape Verdean migration and, more specifically, within this field, with the intention of deepening knowledge about the position of different groups or social segments in relation to Cape Verdean migration. Verde, inside and outside the country. The idea is to underline that the field of Cape Verdean migration is very complex, which proves to be conducive to the reproduction of social and class divisions that are born in the archipelago, and therefore cannot be approached as if all Cape Verdeans were on it. and descendants had the same perspective and expectation. In this sense, the generalist conceptions about Cape Verdean migration must be understood as a result of disputes between groups to impose their conceptions on migration. In relation to Cape Verde, the emphasis has always been on the formation of a specifically diasporic identity by which, in an apparently paradoxical way, the cement would be constituted by spatial dispersion and the common reference to an almost mythical origin of a stepmother-land. In an imaginary way, they made the diasporic Cape Verdean identity positive, but in the name of the adverse conditions at the origin, that initial evil, they attributed exceptional gifts to this dispersed people arising from an ungrateful destiny.
Quotation:
Évora, Iolanda. 2010. “Discursos sobre a diáspora cabo-verdiana: o olhar de quem ficou”. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão. CEsA – Documentos de Trabalho nº 86/2010.
Working Paper 85/2010: Manual básico do PASW
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The text of this Manual básico do PASW started to be constructed for a training course in Guinea Bissau in 1999, as part of the project “Welfare Observatory in a suburban district of Bissau” financed by the Ministry of Labour and Solidarity (now Ministry of Labour and Social Security) and implemented by the Guinean NGO Association for Development (AD). It is intended to explain a quick and efficient way to use PASW Statistics 18 (ex-SPSS) in data management and analysis. That is, the way in which the data approach can be carried out in the field of social sciences using descriptive statistics. The best way to circumvent several intrinsic vicissitudes in the process of creating a database in the program in question is highlighted. Not only is the introduction of elementary statistical concepts worthy of note, as well as their application within the scope of procedures inherent to the treatment of information collected in the context of a survey. This Manual is an evolving work that was expressly constructed to teach statistical data collection in Africa to people with that kind of work and with very practical concerns, so that these technicians have their capacities extended in a sustained manner, without increasing their dependence on the outside.
Quotation:
Sangreman, Carlos . Nuno Cunha e Bruno Damásio. 2010. “Manual básico do PASW”. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão. CEsA – Documentos de Trabalho nº 85/2010.
Working Paper 84/2010: The role of China in the portuguese speaking african countries: The case of Mozambique
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Due to the Reform and Open Door Policies initiated in 1978, China recorded a fast sustainable economic growth with an estimated average GDP growth rate of 9.7% in the period of 1980-2008, turning China — in 2009 — into the world’s second largest economy, just after USA. With an export oriented economic model, highly supported by FDI, mostly from developed countries, China is, since 2002, the most attractive developing country for FDI flows, both at short and long terms, becoming not only the world’s factory, but also its number one exporter, after surpassing Germany in 2009. With the biggest current account surplus balance, China has been able to achieve a foreign exchange reserve of US$ 2.2 trillion — the world’s largest reserve currency. Around 50% of this huge reserve is being applied in American bonds, while the remaining supports Chinese health and social security systems, Chinese banks’ solvability, internationalization of the Chinese economy, investment in geostrategic positioning to guarantee energy independence and making foreign aid available to other developing countries. During 2008’s global crisis, China was able to resist better than the major world economies even benefitting from this downturn to implement policies to reduce its economic imbalances. One of these imbalances is the gap between Chinese FDI and OFDI which is now progressively narrowing. In fact, in the near future, OFDI is expected even be larger than FDI. Mostly two types of Chinese OFDI can be distinguished: trade-oriented investment and resource-seeking investment. Governmental backing, including official developments assistance (ODA) has been crucial for the resource-seeking investment. Although the Chinese investment is nowadays more oriented to mature economies, its bulk is mainly directed to the other developing countries mainly to Latin American countries and now also to African countries. Following the Beijing Consensus, Chinese planners are pushing partnerships with African countries and within those, the Chinese government identified one strategic group worth to cooperate and invest, the Portuguese Speaking African Countries which are linked through a network of language and culture between themselves and also to other geostrategic economic spaces; to Europe via Portugal, to Latin America via Brazil and to Asia via Macau. These African countries have high expectations on the Chinese cooperation and our research questions are: (a) Should this investment be consider ODA or OFDI; (b) How far can Chinese finance flows contribute to the development of these countries in terms of employment, exports, technology transfer; (c) is this investment seen as an opportunity or a threat by local people, is it fulfilling the created expectations or not? In The role of China in the portuguese speaking african countries: The case of Mozambique our empirical case is researching the perception of Mozambique government on the ODA and OFDI Chinese investment there, and the conclusions were reached by analyzing the Mozambique government high officials opinions publically expressed or resulting from their answers to media inquires. We also will try to find secondary data with information on the perception of the population on China presence in Mozambique through secondary data.
Quotation:
Ilhéu, Fernanda. 2010. “The role of China in the portuguese speaking african countries: The case of Mozambique”. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão. CEsA/ Documentos de Trabalho nº 84/2010.
Working Paper 83/2009: Epistemologia e metodologia, notas sobre a cooperação para o desenvolvimento
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The discussion about what is meant by epistemology, what is its status and its role as a discipline has been perpetuated as a controversial topic over the years. This situation is not unrelated to the fact that we are dealing with a topic that is likely to take on different perspectives depending on the scientific background of the authors involved, as well as the fact that epistemology constitutes a scientific field that is difficult to define due to its numerous borders with other areas. In Epistemologia e metodologia, notas sobre a cooperação para o desenvolvimento, we had to assume some options and define its scope, as it is not our intention to start an exhaustive discussion about the history of its evolution and the different perspectives, but only to frame the main aspects underlying its characterization, in order to if it is possible to continue for the construction of a theoretical body that allows framing and deepening the proposed analysis theme with the current research project. We can then begin by focusing our attention on the notion of episteme from which the term epistemology comes. Traditionally, according to the Greeks, this term means ‘knowledge’. However, if we briefly look at the historical discussion of epistemology, we quickly see that there are different perspectives, essentially coming from the classical tradition, from Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy. In the first place, it is a question of the existence of a “truth”, that is, the existence of a “truth”, that is, the existence of a “truth”, that is, the existence of a “truth”. In fact, since Plato, knowledge can be characterised as a justified belief that presupposes the answer to the original question of what it is to know.
Quotation:
Sarmento, Eduardo. 2009. “Epistemologia e metodologia, notas sobre a cooperação para o desenvolvimento”. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão. CEsA – Documentos de Trabalho nº 83/2009.
Special issue of the Review of African Political Economy, edited by Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco/CEsA, is open access until June 30th
The most recent special issue of the Review of African Political Economy (RoAPE), “Capital Accumulation, Financialisation and Social Reproduction in Mozambique” (vol 49, issue 171, March 2022), edited by Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco/CEsA and Elisa Grecco, can be freely downloaded until June 30, 2022. It provides a political economy critique of contemporary Mozambique, articulated around the analysis of the historical conditions under which its mode of capital accumulation was formed.
This issue contains articles by CEsA researchers, Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco, Ana Sofia Ganho and Diogo Maia, as well as five other researchers from research institutions in Mozambique, England and France, namely Rosimina Ali, Carlos Muianga, Natacha Bruna, Sara Stevano and Elisa Greco.
More about Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco:
Mozambican economist (born in Maputo, 1960). PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) in Economics (School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS, University of London), MSc (Master of Sciences) in Development Economics (University of Oxford), MA (Master of Arts) in Industrial Development (University of East Anglia), P-GD (Post-Graduate Diploma) in Development Economics (University of East Anglia), GD (Graduate Diploma) in Development Studies (Eduardo Mondlane University). Visiting Associate Professor at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management, ISEG/ULisboa and at the Nova University of Lisbon, lecturing on macroeconomics II (economic growth), globalization & development, theories of development, development policies and politics, development economics and political economy. Researcher at CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa. He is a member of the Mozambican Academy of Sciences, of the Mozambican Association of Economists, of the Portuguese Association of Political Economy, and an editorial board member of the Journal of Southern African Studies and of the Review of African Political Economy. Research focus: paradoxes and limits of processes of capital accumulation in Africa in postcolonial contexts of uneven development of capitalism in the era of financialization. Of this broader research project emerged two research lines currently under way, one on financialization and premature de-industrialization in the African context, and another on international private finance and the dynamics of capital accumulation in Mozambique.
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Working Paper 82/2009: Uma aplicação da metodologia de G. Hofstede: inquérito à cultura organizacional das ONGD em Portugal, Guiné e Cabo Verde
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PROCODE has as one of its objectives to characterize three of the actors of decentralized cooperation: public higher education establishments – Universities and Polytechnic Institutes -, NGDOs and Municipalities. Uma aplicação da metodologia de G. Hofstede : inquérito à cultura organizacional das ONGD em Portugal, Guiné e Cabo Verde concerns the analysis of data collected by a survey bulletin and by interviews with NGDOs, intervening in Portugal, Cape Verde and Guinea – Bissau, in 2007 and 2008. It seeks to characterize the organizational culture of the NGDOs of these three countries to understand how these actors work in Cooperation, in the logic of the Cooperation Actors Model that the Project has developed. Given that the non-governmental sector has been organized in the three countries with a lot of contact between its members, even beyond the more professional aspects, the expectation of the usefulness of this data clearly goes beyond the Project, being able to constitute a valuable element of management for the Platforms of NGDOs of any of the countries, as well as for a better mutual understanding on the part of the other actors/intervenes in the Cooperation.
Quotation:
Sangreman, Carlos … [et al.]. 2009. “Uma aplicação da metodologia de G. Hofstede : inquérito à cultura organizacional das ONGD em Portugal, Guiné e Cabo Verde”. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão. CEsA – Documentos de Trabalho nº 82/2009.
