Browsing Chr. Michelsens Institutt by Author "Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik"
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Angola 1999/2000. Key Development Issues and National Research Capacity
Tvedten, Inge; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Research report, Research report, 2000)This is the first report on Angola under the Country Advisor Agreement between the Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation (NORAD), the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and the Nordic Consulting Group (NCG). The report ... -
Criteria for general budget support and general sector support. Report commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Research report, Research report, 1998)This report assesses a set of criteria for providing development aid in the form of general budget support and sector support. The criteria are suggested by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and relate to good ... -
Economic development and industrial structure - an overview
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (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 ... -
Effekter i mottakerlandene av norske petroleumsinvesteringer med hovedvekt på Angola
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik; Tvedten, Inge; Wiig, Arne (Research report, Research report, 1999)Denne rapporten ser på hvordan norske petroleumsinvesteringer kan bidra til industriutvikling og en jevnere inntektsfordeling i mottakerlandet. Videre ser vi på i hvilken grad norske petroleumsinvesteringer kan være en ... -
Gullfaks - the first Norwegian oil field developed and operated by Norwegian companies
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)This case study analyses the market for oil-related producer services for the Gullfaks oil field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. We find that the market is highly concentrated, the Norwegian market share is extensive, ... -
Impacto do investimento petrolífero Norueguês nos países de acolhimento, com especial ênfase para Angola
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik; Tvedten, Inge; Wiig, Arne (Research report, Research report, 2000)O presente relatório aborda a forma de como os investimentos petrolíferos Norueguêses, melhor poderão contríbuir para o desenvolvimento indústrial e distribuição uniforme dos dividendos nos países de acolhimento, analisando ... -
Liberalization of Trade in Producer Services - the Impact on Developing Countries
Hodge, James; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Research report, Research report, 1999)This paper analyzes the impact of liberalization of trade in producer services, focusing on financial services, telecommunications and transport. The likely effects on developing countries is that they will become net ... -
Liberalization of trade in services and choice of technology in the Norwegian petroleum sector
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)The petroleum sector is a service-intensive industry. The quality, price and availability of services are therefore important for the productivity level in the petroleum sector. This paper analyzes how intermediate inputs ... -
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 ... -
Mozambique - a sub-Saharan African NIC?
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik; Pretorius, Leon (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)This paper analyzes and explains foreign direct investment (FDI) in Mozambique. The country was one of the fastest growing countries in the world during the second half of the 1990s, and FDI has followed growth with a lag. ... -
Oil-related producer services and productivity - the case of Norway
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik; Kvaløy, Ola (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)The petroleum sector is a service-intensive industry. The quality, price and availability of services are therefore important for the productivity level in the petroleum sector. This paper analyses data on the Norwegian ... -
Patterns of foreign direct investment in poor countries
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)This paper introduces endogenous adoption costs for productive assets in a Ramsey type growth model with international capital flows. There are two classes of productive assets: owner-specific and location-specific. Adoption ... -
Some reasons why capital does not flow from rich to poor countries
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)This paper introduces endogenous adoption costs for productive assets in a Ramsey type growth model with international capital flows. There are two c1asses of productive assets: owner-specific and location-specific. Adoption ... -
South African Manufacturing Industries - Catching up or Falling Behind?
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (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 ... -
Terms of Trade and Economic Growth in a World of Constrained Capital Mobility
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)This paper focuses on the interaction between world community and capital markets within the framework of an extended neoclassical growth mode!. The model incorporates raw materials as an essential input and captures the ... -
The impact of the financial and economic crisis in Asia on Norway's major development partners. Report submitted to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik; Tenold, Stig (Research report, Research report, 1999)This report first describes the currency, financial and economic crises in Asia and analyses how the crises evolved. The second part analyses how the three types of crises affect selected Norwegian development partners in ... -
The Role of Government in Growth and Income Distribution: The Case of Botswana
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Research report, Research report, 2000)Botswana has experienced one of the highest growth rates in the world over the past three decades. Growth can, however, be attributed to a long-lived diamond sector boom and the injection of mineral revenue into the economy ... -
The Snorre Field and the Rise and Fall of Saga Petroleum
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)This paper presents a case study of the Snorre field development focusing on the market for oil-related services related to the development of the oil field. The Snorre field was the first field developed by Saga Petroleum ... -
Trade and Growth with Static and Dynamic Economies of Scale
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)This paper develops a dynamic two-country, two-sector model of international trade with asymmetric technological spillovers, static increasing returns to scale in one sector and dynamic increasing returns to scale in the ...