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Alex Armand is an Assistant Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics, a resident member of NOVAFRICA, a research fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), and at the Navarra Centre for International Development (Spain). His main research fields are development economics and policy evaluation. His current work focuses on the effect of providing education-related cash transfers on household outcomes, the effect of local community engagement on natural resource management, the role of media in reducing conflict, and sanitation in urban slums. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University College London.
Posts by Alex Armand
Incentivising quality of public infrastructure: Does it work?
Community toilets in slums are often poorly maintained, and upgrading facilities is difficult due to low willingness-to-pay among potential users and ‘free riding’. Based on an experiment in Uttar...
- Alex Armand Britta Augsburg Antonella Bancalari
- 08 October, 2021
- Articles
Covid-19: Debunking fake news among slum-dwellers
Urban slum-dwellers are among the groups that are most at-risk of Covid-19, and their precarious situation is further compounded by rampant misinformation regarding the Virus. Based on a survey of abo...
- Alex Armand Britta Augsburg Antonella Bancalari
- 21 January, 2021
- Articles
Covid-19: Willingness to vaccinate among slum-dwellers
Vaccination is among the success stories in modern-day medicine, and is seen by the WHO as a key element of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In this note, Augsburg et al. discuss findings from a...
- Alex Armand Britta Augsburg Antonella Bancalari
- 05 August, 2020
- Notes from the Field