Chr. Michelsens Institutt: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1721-1740 of 1927
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The UN and post-crisis aid: Towards a more political economy
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)This paper reviews certain aspects of the post-crisis problem, as seen from within the UN. It outlines the wide variety in cases that fall within post-crisis policy, and suggests a basis for categorisation, which is crucial ... -
Patterns of foreign direct investment in poor countries
(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 ... -
Supply chain management in the oil industry: The Angolan case
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)This paper focuses on the organisation of the supply chain in the offshore oil industry, primarily the relationships between upstream oil-companies and their main contractors. From studies of the North Sea offshore industry, ... -
Monetary Variables in Macmod. A note concerning the introduction of monetary variables in the Tanzanian macro economic model: Macmod
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)This paper discusses the relationship between money supply and production in Tanzania, wit special reference to Macmod, the macroeconomic model for Tanzania. The relationship between money supply and production is seen as ... -
Taxation, coercion and donors. Local government tax enforcement in Tanzania
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)This paper presents three propositions about tax collection in local authorities in Tanzania. First, revenue performance depends on the degree of coercion involved in tax enforcement. Second, the extent of coercion depends ... -
Post-war reconciliation and democratization: Concepts, goals and lessons learnt
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Taxation, aid and democracy. An agenda for research in African countries
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)Taxation, aid and democracy are closely related in poor aid-dependent African countries. The way they tackle the issue of domestic revenue mobilisation significantly influences their potential for economic growth and ... -
Afghanistan: Current Humanitarian Challenges
(Research report, Research report, 2001)More than twenty years of war and civil war and a severe drought has increased the vulnerability of the Afghan population. The warring fractions, the Taliban and the Northern Alliance, show low concern for the population ... -
A cost-benefit framework for allocating SPS-related technical assistance
(Research report, Research report, 2002)Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures designed to protect human, animal and plant health, constitute a significant barrier to exports of agricultural products from developing countries. Though the WTO Agreement on the ... -
Governance for sustainability? Balancing social and environmental concerns in Harare
(Research report, Research report, 2002)The paper examines urban governance in the framework of sustainable urban development. It agrees with most analyses that sustainable settlements embrace social, ecological and economic dimensions. The discussion stresses ... -
A balanced view of development as freedom
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)Amartya Sen, in his most recent book Development as Freedom, argues that expansion of human freedom should both be viewed as the primary end and the principle means of development. This paper provides an overview and a ... -
Determinants of inflation in Tanzania
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)Tanzania’s inflation rate which averaged about 30% in the early 1990’s dropped to about 13% at the end of 1998. Using an error correction model (ECM), this paper estimates an inflation equation for Tanzania based on quarterly ... -
The status of the East Timor agricultural sector 1999
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)This working paper came about as a result of background research for a chapter in Social and Economic Conditions in East Timor, published by the International Conflict Resolution Program, School of International and Public ... -
Judicial independence and human rights policies in Argentina and Chile
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)This paper is about how varying degrees of judicial independence may influence policy making in the field of human rights. I explore factors that may account for why some Latin American courts, years after the return to ... -
Corruption: Critical assessments of contemporary research. Report from a multidisciplinary workshop
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)Chr. Michelsen Institute and the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), organised a workshop on ‘corruption research’ in Oslo 19-20 October ... -
Best Practice in Capacity Building in Public Finance Management in Africa. Experiences of NORAD and Sida
(Research report, Research report, 2002)This study was contracted by Sida and NORAD for the purpose of summarising experiences in capacity building for Public Finance Management (PFM) in Africa. In particular, the two organisations’ attempts to take a more ... -
Intergovernmental fiscal relations in developing countries. A review of issues
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)Fiscal decentralisation - the devolution of taxing and spending powers to lower levels of government - has become an important theme of governance in many developing countries in recent years. Accordingly, restructuring ... -
Clientelist Politics. State formation and corruption in Palestine 1994-2000
(Research report, Research report, 2002)The state formation process in Palestine started after the Oslo agreements between Israel and Palestine in 1994, which established a Palestinian quasi-state. The process came, however, to an almost complete halt with the ... -
Fiscal decentralisation in Tanzania: For better or for worse?
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)Tanzania is currently implementing a local government reform aimed at improving public service delivery. An important component of the reform is to increase the fiscal autonomy of local authorities. This policy is encouraged ... -
Foreign direct investment during transition. Determinants and patterns in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)This paper provides an analysis of foreign direct investments to the countries of the former Soviet Union and 10 of the former socialist economies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Foreign direct investments to the ...