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    • Strategisk handelsteori og økonomisk utvikling 

      Wiig, Arne (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)
      This paper gives an overview of theories of strategic trade policies and discusses whether these theories are applicable as development strategies for developing countries. The general answer is no. The theories are partial ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Can national identity be built on local democracy? 

      Pausewang, Siegfried (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)
      In Ethiopia, with 85 % of the population in agriculture, most of them illiterate, democratisation has to work against adverse experience: Peasants can refer back to democratic traditions on local level. But their experience ...

    • Beyond cultural relativism? Tim Ingold's "ontology of dwelling" 

      Knudsen, Are J. (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1998)
      Tim Ingold has emerged as perhaps the most interesting theoretician of Man-Environment relations. This essay traces the intellectual history of the study of environmental perceptions and Ingolds rejection of the notion ...

    • Humanitarian Assistance and Conflict: A-State-of-the-Art Report 

      Hybertsen, Bente; Suhrke, Astri; Tjore, Gro (Research report, Research report, 1998)
      The rapid growth of international aid allocated to "complex humanitarian emergencies" has led to parallel calls for preventive action. It is also asked how humanitarian assistance and other forms of international civilian ...

    • Evolutionary Game Theory and the Battle of the Sexes 

      Bøe, Turid (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 ...

    • A review of game theoretic models of fishing 

      Sumaila, Ussif Rashid (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)
      Game theory is a formal tool for analysing strategic interaction between a finite number of agents. The fact that usually more than one entity or agent has property rights to fishery resources, has led to an explosion in ...

    • Underdevelopment and labour migration: the contract labour system in Namibia 

      Moorsom, Richard (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)
      This volume reproduces, with minor changes, a set of previously published papers on the history of the origins, formation and evolution of the contract labour system in Namibia from first commercial contact with industrial ...

    • Utdrag av norsk flyktningdebatt 1985-1995. Eit styrande perspektiv? 

      Tjore, Gro (Research report, Research report, 1997)
      The report gives an overview of the main trends and changes in Norwegian refugee policy since 1945. The focus is on the more recent Norwegian political debate concerning refugee questions. Two major political actors, the ...

    • Strategic Dynamic Interaction: The Case of Barents Sea Fisheries 

      Sumaila, Ussif Rashid (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)
      This paper develops a bioeconomic model for two Barents Sea fisheries that attempts to capture the predator-prey relationships between cod and capelin, the two main species in the habitat. The aim is to analyse joint ...

    • 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 ...

    • Population and Environment Relationships in Developing Countries: A Select Review of Approaches and Methods 

      Marquette, Catherine (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)
      A diversity of opinion, theory, and conceptual approaches characterizes discussion of population and environment relationships among social scientists. This review captures some of this diversity by considering several of ...

    • 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 ...

    • Controlling fiscal corruption. Theoretical approaches and illustrations from Tanzania 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1999)
      The primary concern of this paper is to discuss the role of various economic factors in explaining corruption in tax administration. The emphasis is on how the incentive structure of the tax system affects the decisions ...

    • Access Regimes and Institutions: The Economic Organisation of the Migrant Popo Fishermen of Pointe-Noire, Congo 

      Bøe, Turid (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1999)
      Within Popo society in Pointe Noire, Congo, fishermen seIl their fish to their wives at a price slightly below the local market price. The wives process the fish and re-seIl it in distant markets, making a profit they ...

    • Skatteunndragelse. En studie av kommunebeskatning i Tanzania 

      Hansen, Cecilie Fosse (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1998)
      I dette notatet gis en oversikt over økonomisk teori om skatteunndragelse. Relevansen av ulike teoretiske tilnærminger i en u-landskontekst, drøftes. Deretter analyseres hvilke variabler som kan bidra til å forklare den ...

    • Cannibalism and the optimal sharing of the North-East Atlantic cod stock: A computation model 

      Armstrong, C.W.; Sumaila, U.R. (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1998)
      This paper shows how intra-stock relations, such as cannibalism and growth enhancement, define the optimal sharing of a fish resource between heterogeneous harve sting agents. The sharing of resources between different ...

    • Marine protected areas and managing fished ecosystems 

      Sumaila, Ussif Rashid; Guenette, Sylvie; Alder, Jackie; Pollard, David; Chuenpagdee, Ratana (Research report, Research report, 1999)
      This paper provides a synthesis of the current literature on the potential of marine protected areas (MPAs) as a management tool to limit the ecosystem effects of fishing, including biological and socio-economic perspectives. ...