Bruno Martorano

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Assistant Professor, Maastricht University and Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), United Nations University

‘Coal is poison’: protests against a proposed Chinese-backed coal power plant in Kenya. Dai Kurokawa / EPA

June 15, 2021

Bruno Martorano, United Nations University; Francesco Iacoella, United Nations University; Laura Metzger, Harvard Kennedy School, and Marco Sanfilippo, Università di Torino

We looked at 125,000 protests across Africa and mapped them against Chinese investments.

Victory: supporters of Jair Bolsonaro celebrate in October 2018. Joedson Alves/EPA

September 30, 2020

Patricia Justino, United Nations University and Bruno Martorano, United Nations University

A new study shows how economic shocks caused by cuts to import tariff cuts in the 1990s is linked to the rise of populism in Brazil.