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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 ... -
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 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 ... -
"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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Expectativas e receios face às eleições de 2008. O impacto de 1992
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Explaining Maoist control and level of civil conflict in Nepal
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2009)Does poverty or inequality explain the Maoist insurgency in Nepal? In contrast to previous studies we limit the analysis to the hill/mountain districts of Nepal as very few terai (plains) districts are classified as Maoist. ... -
Exploring the Research-Policy Linkage: The Case of Reforms in Financing Primary Education in Tanzania
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)Tanzania abolished school fees in primary schools as from 2002. This move was made possible because of shifts in the policy of major donors, not least the World Bank. In the subsequent years Tanzania recorded a rapid ... -
FDI and industrialisation. Why technology transfer and new industrial structures may accelerate economic development
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)Countries within a region often experience a similar rate of industrial development. Do foreign direct investments have any influence on this aspect of industrialisation? This paper describes how technology transfer and ... -
Fighting fiscal corruption: The case of the Tanzania Revenue Authority
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2002)Over the last decade several African countries have undertaken comprehensive reforms of their tax administrations, with the aims of increasing revenue and curbing corruption. This paper examines recent experiences in the ...