Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco (born 1960, in Maputo, Mozambique) is a prominent Mozambican economist. He was educated at

Eduardo Mondlane University The Eduardo Mondlane University ( pt, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane; UEM) is the oldest and largest university in Mozambique. The UEM is located in Maputo and has about 40,000 students enrolled. History The institution was set up as a center for ...

(Diploma in Development Studies), the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

(Diploma in Development Economics, 1991, and MA Industrial Development, 1992), the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

(MSc Development Economics, 1997) and

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(PhD Economics, 2002). He was an associate professor in industrialization and development economics at

, from 1992 to 2019, when he retired, was the 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 and Development Studies, CEsA (https://web.archive.org/web/20180213201026/http://pascal.iseg.utl.pt/~cesa/). His research is focused on the political economy of economic crisis and transformation and systems of

capital accumulation Capital accumulation is the dynamic that motivates the pursuit of profit, involving the investment of money or any financial asset with the goal of increasing the initial monetary value of said asset as a financial return whether in the form o ...

in Africa. Within this broad area, he is working, currently, on crisis and dependent capitalism, public debt and financialization, and financialization and premature deindustrialization in the African context. With CEsA, IESE and the Centro de Estudos Sociais (Centre for Social Studies), CES, of the Coimbra University, he is involved in two studies focused on the political economy of African Socialisms and the political economy of African capitalisms in the era of global financialization and of crisis of and in neoliberalism. In 2015, he was awarded the Ruth First prize for the best article on political economy of African development by the Review of African Political Economy, ROAPE, as well as two prizes for dedication to major public causes, one by the city of Quelimane, Zambézia, Mozambique (by which he was made honorary citizen of the city) and another by the civil society coordination mechanism, MASC, also in Mozambique. He is a member of the Mozambican Academy of Sciences, the Mozambican Association of Economists (AMECON), the Portuguese Association of Political Economy (APEP) and of the editorial board of the Journal for Southern African Studies (JSAS), and a member of the group of reviewers of ROAPE. Information about his work and publications (most of which can be accessed online for free) is available from Research Gate, a data base of scientific research and publications, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Castel-Branco/stats/profile_views. He has recently co-edited, with Elisa Greco, a special issue of the Review of African Political Economy (RoAPE, vol 49, Issue 171, March 2022) titled "Capital accumulation, financialization and social reproduction in Mozambique", https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/crea20/current, in which he also published two articles, "The historical logic of the mode of capital accumulation in Mozambique" and, co-authored with Diogo Maia, "Financialization, narrow specialisation of production and capital accumulation in Mozambique" (both articles, and the editorial of the special issue, "Mozambique - neither miracle nor mirage", co-authored with Elisa Greco, can be freely accessed from his research gate website).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Castel-Branco, Carlos Nuno 1960 births Living people Eduardo Mondlane University alumni Alumni of the University of East Anglia Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of SOAS University of London Mozambican economists People from Maputo Place of birth missing (living people)