• Cost-Benefit Analysis, Discounting, and the Environmental Critique: Overloading of the Discount Rate? 

      Angelsen, Arild (Report, Research report, 1991)
      The use of (high) discount rates in cost-benefit analysis is being criticized in the environmental debate. In particular, some feel that high future environmental costs do not get a fair hearing in a project appraisal due ...
    • Debt and Deforestation: A Tenuous Link 

      Angelsen, Arild; Culas, Richard (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)
      This paper examines the hypothesis that heavy foreign debt causes high rates of tropical deforestation. Empirical evidence indicates that no universally valid link exists between debt and deforestation - in either direction. ...
    • Deforestation: Population or Market Driven? Different Approaches in Modelling Agricultural Expansion 

      Angelsen, Arild (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 ...
    • Hard Methods for Soft Policies. Environmental and Social Cost-Benefit Analysis 

      Angelsen, Arild; Sumaila, Ussif Rashid (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 ...
    • Individual Choice under Uncertainty 

      Angelsen, Arild (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1993)
      The first part of this paper gives an overview of the dominating approach within economic theory on individual decision making under uncertainty or risk - the expected utility (EU) theory. The theory has increasingly been ...
    • Land Reforms and Land Degradation in Tanzania: Alternative Economic Approaches 

      Angelsen, Arild; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (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 ...
    • Macmod, a macroeconomic model for the Tanzanian economy 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik; Angelsen, Arild (Research report, Research report, 1998)
      This report outlines the structure of a macroeconomic model for the Tanzanian economy. It consists of a core IS-LM/ Mundell-Fleming model, an SS-DD framework for estimating the consumer price inflation and other price ...
    • Shifting Cultivation and "Deforestation". A Study from Sumatra, Indonesia 

      Angelsen, Arild (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. ...
    • Shifting Cultivation Expansion and Intensity of Production: The Open Economy Case 

      Angelsen, Arild (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 ...
    • State - Local Community Games of Forest Land Appropriation 

      Angelsen, Arild (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)
      This paper explores possible strategic interactions between the state and local community in games of tropical forest land appropriation. Two key questions are addressed. First, how does the structure of the game influence ...
    • The Evolution of Private Property Rights in Traditional Agriculture: Theories and a Study from Indonesia 

      Angelsen, Arild (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)
      The starting point of this paper is a universally observed tendency of common property to be replaced by private property in traditional agriculture. The paper seeks to explore the forces behind such a development. Four ...