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

PROGRAMME

O conteúdo Seminar “Discussing the Causes of Portuguese Backwardness: Rethinking the Past to Reinvent the Present” by Nuno Palma aparece primeiro em CIDEHUS.

The Tourism Zapping initiative consists of a series of conversations with researchers and professionals from the public, private, and associative sectors of tourism, with the goal of sharing with the entire academic community of the University of Évora emerging, contemporary, and relevant topics related to research and projects developed in the field of tourism.

In its first edition, the Tourism Zapping series includes five sessions (“Zaps”), with the first focusing on SMART Tourism Destinations. In this session, in addition to discussing the concept, the case study of a project developed by a group of researchers from CIDEHUS and the HPC Chair of the University of Évora will be presented — specifically, the creation of an intelligent platform for monitoring sustainable tourism in the Alentejo region (PISTA Digital).
It is worth noting that this platform supports the monitoring work carried out by the Alentejo Sustainable Tourism Observatory (ASTO), a structure based at the University of Évora and part of the INSTO/UNWTO – International Network of Sustainable Tourism Observatories of the World Tourism Organization (a specialized agency of the United Nations). The scientific coordination of ASTO is led by a team of researchers from CIDEHUS.UÉ and the HPC Chair.

O conteúdo Tourism Zapping “Smart Tourism Destinations: The Case of the Alentejo Destination” aparece primeiro em CIDEHUS.