Browsing CMI Open Research Archive by Subject "Economy"

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    • Always choosing the oil rents: How leaders in Angola and Venezuela brought their countries to ruin 

      Marsteintredet, Leiv; Orre, Aslak (CMI Working Paper WP 2016:10, Working paper, 2016-11-01)
      Angola and Venezuela are among the most oil dependent countries in the world. When oil prices fell in 2014, these states lost half of their income base. A combined economic, political and social crisis followed. The acute ...

    • Corporate Social Responsibility in Islamic Economies – the Case of Sudan 

      Elhassab, Ahmed Elhassab Omer; Yahya, Abdelmageed Mohammed (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2016:1, Working paper, 2016-05-01)
      Introduction Since the 1950s, there has been a growing international awareness of the need for business organizations to commit to a social role that goes beyond the sole objective of profit maximization. The term ...

    • Petro-Governance in Tanzania: Opportunities and Challenges 

      Lee, Bryan; Dupuy, Kendra (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 14, Report, 2016-10-01)
      Recent significant natural gas discoveries have pushed Tanzania into the international spotlight as a new petroleum producer. How can the country ensure that its newfound wealth is translated into economic development? ...

    • Rural poverty in Malanje, Angola 

      Tvedten, Inge; Lázaro, Gilson; Jul-Larsen, Eyolf; Agostinho, Mateus (CMI Report R 2017:1, Research report, 2017-05-01)
      This report is part of the research programme “Cooperation on Research and Development in Angola” between Centro de Estudos e Investigação Científica (CEIC) at the Catholic University in Luanda, Angola and Chr. Michelsen ...

    • Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Mmari, Donald; Sjursen, Ingrid Hoem; Tungodden, Bertil (CMI Working Paper WP 2018:5, Working paper, 2018-01-01)
      Corruption appears to be an important driver of the resource curse in developing countries. We report from a large-scale field experiment in Tanzania that provides causal evidence on how expectations about future natural ...