Let me gratefully acknowledge the kind invitation of Coimbra’s Notas Económicas to publish NOVA School of Business and Economics Working Paper n.º 566, including texts prepared for delivery at the first honorary doctorate awarded to Paul Krugman by three Lisbon universities and a note on...

We assess the determinants of Chinese direct investment in Africa compared with those of global FDI. We find that economic size and macroeconomic stability are positively correlated with Chinese and global FDI in Africa. Institutional variables, such as accountability and rule of law, are not...

Antonio Manuel Pinto Barbosa (1917-2006), economist and official, was included by Expresso Revista among the 100 Portuguese who shaped the 20th century. He has been biographed by Joao Cesar das Neves and Francisco Azevedo e Silva in a book published in 1999, whose chapter 7 calls him the dean of...