Chr. Michelsens Institutt: Recent submissions

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    • Angola 2001/2002. Key Development Issues and Aid in a Context of Peace 

      Tvedten, Inge; Adauta, Mario; Cain, Allan; Hodges, Tony; Kibble, Steve; Pacheco, Fernando (Research report, Research report, 2002)
      This is the third report on Angola under the Country Advisor Agreement between the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and Chr. Michelsen Institute. The report consists of a part I synthesising and assessing ...

    • Updating the Input Output based Macmod functions 

      Granberg, Per (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2002)
      The present paper reports on a statistical effort undertaken for the Macmod project. It reports on the revision and updating of the Tanzanian Input-Output table for 1992. These IO activities are undertaken in order to ...

    • Telecommunications - a means to economic growth in developing countries? 

      Jacobsen, Karen F. Lomeland (Research report, Research report, 2003)
      The world economy has experienced an enormous growth the past 50 years. Yet the gap between the richest and the poorest countries has increased. There have been several attempts to explain the increased differences. ...

    • Responsiveness to the concerns of the poor and accountability to the commitment to poverty reduction 

      Gloppen, Siri; Rakner, Lise; Tostensen, Arne (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)
      Taking its cue from the poverty-reduction thrust of the Millennium Development Goals, this paper proposes an analytical framework for answering the fundamental question: How can we increase the responsiveness of decision-makers ...

    • Corruption and market reform 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Søreide, Tina (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)
      Market reforms in developing and transition economies have sometimes failed to deliver the desired welfare effects.Corruption may be an important reason for the inefficiency of market reforms, such as privatizationcampaigns. ...

    • Social development and industry level foreign direct investment 

      Kolstad, Ivar; Villanger, Espen (Research report, Research report, 2004)
      Investment is crucial for economic development. A number of empirical studies document a relationship between social development and aggregate foreign direct investment (FDI). This study complements aggregate studies by ...

    • Conflictual Peacebuilding: Afghanistan Two Years after Bonn 

      Suhrke, Astri; Harpviken, Kristian Berg; Strand, Arne (Research report, Research report, 2004)
      This report charts the aid policies pursued in Afghanistan since late 2001 aimed at building peace in a country devastated by two decades of conflict. The report presents the four pillars of the peacebuilding design and ...

    • Trust & Trade... Is distance dead? 

      Sandelien, Guri (Research report, Research report, 2003)
      This report explores the facts behind the buzzwords ´globalisation` and ´the new economy`. In general we associate these concepts with a borderless world where economic transactions are managed through rapid electronic ...

    • Palestinian State-Formation: Prospects and Challenges. Report from a Symposium at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway 24-25 May 2004 

      Kårtveit, Bård (Research report, Research report, 2004)
      The CMI - Muwatin symposium, held in Bergen on 24-25 May 2004, addressed both internal and external Internal challenges that were addressed were the problem of corruption, institutional mismanagement and the emergence of ...

    • Corruption in international business transactions: The perspective of Norwegian firms 

      Søreide, Tina (CMI Reports, Research report, 2004)
      This report presents a study of corruption in international markets by exploring the perspectives of Norwegian firms, their challenges, their experiences and their preferred strategies. The study consists of three parts, ...

    • Coffee, Co-operatives and Competition: The Impact of Fair Trade 

      Milford, Anna (Research report, Research report, 2004)
      Coffee is one of the most important Third World export commodities, and 70% of the producers are small-scale farmers. Coffee producers are often poor and marginalised, and their situation is aggravated by fluctuating market ...

    • Poverty reduction strategy processes in Malawi and Zambia 

      Bwalya, Edgar; Rakner, Lise; Svåsand, Lars; Tostensen, Arne; Tsoka, Maxton (Research report, Research report, 2004)
      Malawi and Zambia are poor and heavily indebted countries whose dependence on foreign aid is pronounced. They both qualify for debt relief in terms of the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative under the auspices ...

    • Aid to Judicial Reform: Norwegian and International Experiences 

      Skaar, Elin; Samset, Ingrid; Gloppen, Siri (Research report, Research report, 2004)
      Creating a viable judiciary and strengthening its democratic functions has been a main concern of both national governments and donors over the last two decades. This report attempts to chart and systematise the efforts ...

    • SADC in 2003: Restructuring and Progress in Regional Integration 

      Isaksen, Jan (Research report, Research report, 2004)
      The present desk study was commissioned by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation. It traces recent developments in the Southern Africa Development Commu nity (SADC), organisational restructuring and progress in ...

    • Company influence on foreign aid disbursement: Is conditionality credible when donors have mixed motives? 

      Villanger, Espen (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)
      When donors enforce conditionality upon recipients who do not implement the conditions, companies can suffer from cancellation of their contracts with the recipient when aid dries up. A strategic recipient may avoid ...

    • The evolution of social norms 

      Kolstad, Ivar (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)
      Evolutionary game theory provides the tools to analyze which strategies, or patterns of behaviour, emerge over time through a process of adaptation. Social norms can be defined as patterns of behaviour with certain ...

    • Winners and losers from an international investment agreement 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Eckel, Carsten (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)
      Recent attempts at reaching an international investment agreement have been met with considerable opposition and failed. An important reason for this failure is the diverging interests between the parties involved. The ...

    • The Role of the Judiciary in the 2004 General Elections in Malawi 

      Gloppen, Siri; Kanyongolo, Edge (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)
      The courts in Malawi have played a prominent role in political life since the democratic transition in 1993, which came about after three decades of repressive authoritatian rule. Whilst the quality of electoral politics ...

    • From Aid to Partnership. A Joint Review of Norwegian - South African Development Cooperation 1995-2001 

      Pillay, Pundy; Tjønneland, Elling N. (Research report, Research report, 2003)
      This joint review of Norwegian – South African development cooperation was commissioned by the Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation (NORAD)/the Norwegian Embassy Pretoria and the South African National Treasury. ...

    • Islamism in the diaspora: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon 

      Knudsen, Are (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)
      In recent years there has been increasing academic interest in Islamism in the Middle East, not least in Palestinian Islamism championed by groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which are waging a bloody war of attrition ...