| Intro | Mozambican political scientist, economist, university teacher, writer and human rights activist | ||||||||
| A.K.A. | Carlos Castel-Branco | ||||||||
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Political scientist Economist Journalist Opinion journalist Professor Educator Activist Human rights activist |
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| From | Mozambique | ||||||||
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Academia Activism Finance Journalism Politics |
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| Gender | male | ||||||||
| Birth |
1960, Maputo, Mozambique |
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| Age | 61 years | ||||||||
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Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco (born 1960) is a prominent Mozambican economist.
He was educated at Eduardo Mondlane University (Diploma in Development Studies), the University of East Anglia (Diploma in Development Economics, 1991, and MA Industrial Development, 1992), the University of Oxford (MSc Development Economics, 1997) and SOAS, University of London (PhD Economics, 2002). He was an associate professor in industrialization and development economics at Eduardo Mondlane University, from 1992 to 2012, and was director of the Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos (Institute for Social and Economic Studies) (IESE) from 2007 to 2012, and coordinator of IESE’s research group on economics and development, from 2007 to 2017. He is, currently, a visiting professor at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management, ISEG, of the University of Lisbon (https://www.iseg.ulisboa.pt), and a researcher of ISEG’s Centre for African, Asian and Latin American Studies, CEsA (https://web.archive.org/web/20180213201026/http://pascal.iseg.utl.pt/~cesa/). His main research focus is on political economy of economic crisis and transformation and systems of capital accumulation in Africa. Within this broad area, he is working, currently, on crisis and dependent capitalism, public debt and financialization, and premature financialization and premature deindustrialization in Mozambique. Information on his work and publications (most of which can be accessed online) is available from research gate, a data base of scientific research and publications, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Castel-Branco/stats/profile_views.