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Shifting Cultivation Expansion and Intensity of Production: The Open Economy Case
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1994)This paper studies decision making in shifting cultivation, in particular labour inputs, length of rotation or fallow period (intensity of production), and the agricultural frontier (expansion). Analytical models are ... -
Local Government and Decentralisation in Sub-Saharan Africa. An Annotated Bibliography
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1994)A renewed interest in local government and decentralisation in developing countries has emerged in recent years, and many students now turn to this subject. A substantial literature is already available, even if a lot more ... -
Human Rights Violations and the Paradox of Democratic Transition. A Study of Chile and Argentina
(Research report, Research report, 1994)This comparative analysis of recent transitions to democracy in Argentina and Chile examines (1) the impact of the type of transition on democratic consolidation; (2) how resolving the problem of past human rights violations ... -
Do Interest Groups Matter in Economic Policy-Making? Reflections from a Zambian case study
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1994)The current debate within development research strongly emphasise the role of interest groups in developing and sustaining democratic and liberal economic reforms. With this debate as its point of departure, the paper ... -
Non-Cooperation in Fish Exploitation. The Case of Irreversible Capital Investment in the Arcto-Norwegian Cod Fishery
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1994)A two-stage, two-player non-cooperative game model is developed under an irreversible capital investment assumption. The main aim is to predict the number of vessels that each player in such a game will find in his best ... -
Migrant Fishermen in Congo: Tradition and Modernity
(Research report, Research report, 1994)The report presents an empirical analysis of the dynamics of the community of Béninois (Popo) migrant fishermen in Pointe-Noire. The treatment of historical data from the period prior to their establishment 30 years ago, ... -
Shifting Cultivation and "Deforestation". A Study from Sumatra, Indonesia
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1994)About half of tropical deforestation is commonly explained by the expansion of traditional agriculture (shifting cultivation). This article first questions the share of responsibly assigned to traditional agriculture. ... -
Et lite offer? En analyse av årsakene til det diplomatiske bruddet mellom Norge og Kenya i 1990
(Research report, Research report, 1995)Den 22. oktober 1990 ble den norske ambassadøren innkalt til det kenyanske utenriksdepartementet; kenyanske myndigheter hadde besluttet å bryte de diplomatiske forbindelsene med Norge. Dette var resultatet av en unik ... -
Value-Added Taxation in Tanzania?
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1995)Is Tanzania ready for a value-added tax (V AT)? The purpose of this paper is to answer this and other related questions that are often asked about value-added taxation in developing countries, to consider how a V AT might ... -
Coconuts and Cultivation in the Philippines. A Study of Social Formation in Candelaria, Quezon Province
(Research report, Research report, 1995)This study gives a detailed account of coconut production and the social formation of coconut cultivators in a specific locality in the Quezon province on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. Using a theoretical framework ... -
South African Manufacturing Industries - Catching up or Falling Behind?
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1995)This paper argues that intraindustry trade with developed countries is an important source of technology transfer, and creates incentives to climb up the learning curve. South Africa has an industrial structure that could ... -
Taxation and Tax Reforms in Tanzania: A Survey
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1995)This paper reviews the tax system in Tanzania, and gives particular attention to the tax reform proposals presented in the Report of the Presidential Commission on Taxation. In considering the effects of the "low-rate, ... -
Judiciary and Good Governance in Contemporary Tanzania: Problems and Prospects
(Research report, Research report, 1995)The World Bank identified judiciary among institutions which ran down during centralized governance. The Bank also expressed the need for and willingness to take part in rebuilding these institutions so that they could ... -
Land Reforms and Land Degradation in Tanzania: Alternative Economic Approaches
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1995)This paper uses as a point of departure the extensive soil erosion problems in the highland area of Western Tanzania. The first part of the paper focuses on the ongoing debate on land reforms in Tanzania, particularly the ... -
Living in the Commons: Local Institutions for Natural Resource Management
(Research report, Research report, 1995)Garett Hardin' s essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" has for almost three decades stimulated research on common property regimes. This report provides an overview of this research and reviews a selection of empirical and ... -
Hard Methods for Soft Policies. Environmental and Social Cost-Benefit Analysis
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1995)The quest for sustainability has put the conventional Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) technique under fierce attack. Much of the critique is, however, misplaced or based on misunderstandings. Alternative methodologies for ... -
From Nation-Building to Popular Culture: The Modernization of Performance in Tanzania
(Research report, Research report, 1995)This study focuses on Tanzania's efforts to use elements from ethnic expressive arts in political propaganda and in the creation of a national culture after Independence. It analyses why nationalized traditional dances ... -
DERAP's first 25 years. The history of the Development Action and Research Programme at Chr. Michelsen Institute
(Book, 1995-05-01)Chr. Michelsen Institute is an independent research institute that was established in 1930. By the early 1960s, its Department of Humanities focused on research and advisory work in developing countries. Against this ... -
A Discussion of Three Theoretical Approaches to Modernity: Understanding Modernity as a Globalising Phenomenon
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)The paper compares the potential of three theories of modernity for explaining the current Islamist revival as an element of modernising Muslim societies. The theories discussed are rationalist fundamentalism as represented ... -
Deforestation: Population or Market Driven? Different Approaches in Modelling Agricultural Expansion
(CMI Working paper WP 1996: 9, Working paper, 1996)The debate on causes of and remedies for tropical deforestation is often confused because the underlying assumptions of the arguments are not made explicit. This paper compares four different modelling approaches to ...