Seminar “Discussing the Causes of Portuguese Backwardness: Rethinking the Past to Reinvent the Present” by Nuno Palma
In divergence for more than two decades, Portugal is rapidly moving toward becoming the poorest country in the European Union. The book “The Causes of Portuguese Backwardness” (D. Quixote, 2023) is aimed at those who wish to understand how this happened and the reasons behind our fate. Why is Portugal today a wealthy country on a global scale, yet poor within the European context? What are the causes and historical background of our backwardness? How did we get here, and what can be done to improve our situation? These are the questions the book seeks to answer.
Nuno Palma (brief bio):
Full Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Manchester and Director of the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development at the same university. Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, and at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. He holds a degree from the University of Lisbon and a PhD from the London School of Economics.
Date: February 28, 2024, 2:00 p.m.
Location: UÉ, CES (Room 124) | Online
