Browsing Chr. Michelsens Institutt by Document Types "Working paper"
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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 ... -
Does Aid to Institution Development Work? Reflections on Personal Experiences
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1998)The author has spent dose to ten years as advisor to planning organisations in four developing countries: Pakistan, Kenya, the Sudan and Bangladesh. He raises the question whether the work of the advisory teams resulted ... -
Does changing the narrative improve host community attitudes to climate migrants? Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
(CMI Working Paper WP 2019:3, Working paper, 2019-01-01)A number of studies suggest that our narratives about the situation of the poor and vulnerable affect how we view them and treat them. Theoretically, a potentially powerful way to make host communities more welcoming of ... -
Does democracy reduce corruption?
(CMI Working Paper WP 2011:4, Working paper, 2011-12-12)While democracy is commonly believed to reduce corruption, there are obvious endogeneity problems in measuring the impact of democracy on corruption. This paper addresses the endogeneity of democracy by exploiting the ... -
Does Parliament Matter in New Democracies? The Case of South Africa 1994-2000
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)The role of parliaments is a neglected topic in the study of the democratisation in sub-Saharan Africa. This working paper provides a case study of the South African parliament from the first democratic elections in 1994 ... -
Dynamics of destabilisation in development interventions in South Kordofan, 2005-2011
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2015:4, Working paper, 2015-05-19)This paper outlines the landscape of development interventions in South Kordofan between the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005 and the start of a new war in June 2011. Given the constant political ... -
"Economic Aid to Post-Conflict Countries: A Methodological Critique of Collier and Hoeffler"
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)This paper retests the analysis of “Aid Policy and Growth in Post-Conflict Societies,” by Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler (October 2002 and forthcoming in European Economic Review). It finds that their data and analysis do ... -
Economic Analysis of Land Degradation in Indonesian Upland
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)The objective of this research is to determine factors affecting land degradation in the upland in Indonesia, and to suggest appropriate policies regarding land-use. The regression results indicate that about half of the ... -
Economic development and industrial structure - an overview
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)This essay offers a selective review of central issues related to economic growth. The interrelationship between technological progress, capital accumulation, specialisation and industrial structure is emphasised. It is ... -
Economic growth, employment, and decentralised development in Sri Lanka
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)This Working Paper describes the economic growth rate and patterns in Sri Lanka during the 1990s, showing the interrelationship between uneven sectorial growth and the unbalanced regional growth patterns. This is reflected ... -
Economic Reconstruction and the Peasants in Ethiopia. Two Papers Presented at the Symposium on the Ethiopian Economy, with a Postscript
(Working paper, Working paper, 1992)The two papers present proposals for the economic reconstruction of Ethiopia, based on the interests of the peasants and other poor groups. In the first paper, Fantu Cheru outlines a reform programme combining the market ... -
Education and electoral participation: Reported versus actual voting behaviour
(CMI Working Paper WP 2015:9, Working paper, 2015-08-01)Using survey data of voters in Tanzania, this paper shows that while education does not affect self-reported voting in general elections, it increases actual voting. The less educated are more likely to claim to have voted ... -
EF og bistanden. Virkninger på norsk bistand av et eventuelt norsk EF-medlemskap
(Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 1992)Dette er en rapport til Utenriksdepartementet om mulige virkninger av et norsk medlemskap av EF på norsk utviklingsbistand. Den består av fire deler hvorav den første beskriver bistanden gjennom EF-kommisjonen; den andre ... -
Elite behaviour and citizen mobilization
(CMI Working Paper WP 2015:8, Working paper, 2015-08-01)This paper studies the relation between self-serving elite behaviour and citizen political participation. We use a fixed effects approach to analyze the association between portfolio investment in tax havens and voter ... -
Employee referral, social proximity and worker discipline: Theory and Evidence from India
(CMI Working Paper WP 2015:1, Working paper, 2015-02-01)We develop a new theory of employee referrals into informal low - and unskilled jobs in developing country labour markets. Employers use social preferences between referees and new recruits to mitigate moral hazard problems ... -
Energy Cooperation in Southern Africa: What Role for Norway? Report from the Seminar on Regional Energy Co-operation, Luanda, 12-14 February 2002
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2002)This Working Paper contains a full report from a Seminar on Regional Energy Co-operation, Luanda, 12-14 February 2002. Norwegian involvement in the energy sector in Southern Africa is considerable. Energy is a major area ... -
Eneweyay (Let's Discuss). Report from a training programme for democracy in rural Ethiopia
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)Report of a project to teach principles of democracy in a "down-to-earth" way, through discussions with rural and urban people in Ethiopia. The "Ecumenical Training Initiative for Democracy" developed before the elections ... -
Environment, society and the state in southwestern Eritrea
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)This paper examines the relationships between environment, society and the state in the Gash-Setit region, western Eritrea. Through an examination of the environmental narrative of the local communities and the state, the ... -
Environmental, social and economic problems in the Borkena plain, Ethiopia
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)People in Borkena in Ethiopia suffer from a complex interplay of environmental degradation, increasing shortage of land due to population growth, conflicts between different ethnic and religious identities, and social ... -
Evolutionary Game Theory and the Battle of the Sexes
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)This paper presents an outline of different approaches within evolutionary game theory and sees these approaches in relation to the problem of choosing among multiple equilibria in normal form games. More specifically the ...