• Whither Nordic/SADC Relations? 

      Atkinson, Keith; Tostensen, Arne (Research report, Research report, 1996)
      In 1986 the member states of the then Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADC) and the five Nordic countries signed a joint declaration on expanded economic and cultural cooperation, referred to as the ...
    • Collective Identities and Social Movements 

      Stokke, Hugo; Tjomsland, Marit (Research report, Research report, 1996)
      This report gives an overview of theories and approaches to the study of social identities, drawing on recent literature in the field. It argues that the study of social identities should be linked to the social outlets ...
    • Income-generating Programmes in Pakistan and Malawi: A Comparative Review 

      Knudsen, Are J.; Halvorsen, Kate (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)
      This paper reviews income-generating programmes in Pakistan and Malawi organised by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). It compares the different strategies chosen by the NRC regarding project design and the creation of ...
    • Rational Choice and the Problem of Institutions. A discussion of Rational Choice Institutionalism and its Application by Robert Bates 

      Rakner, Lise (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)
      The paper discusses and reviews various directions within new institutional economics. A central question of concern is whether theories of institutionalism based within rational choice reasoning provide a theoretical basis ...
    • Tax evasion and corruption in local governments in Tanzania: Alternative economic approaches 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)
      The primary concern of the paper is to discuss the role of various economic factors in explaining the mechanisms and degree of fiscal corruption and tax evasion in local governments in Tanzania. The emphasis is on how the ...
    • Botswana - 30 years of economic growth, democracy and aid: Is there a connection? 

      Rakner, Lise (Research report, Research report, 1996)
      This report has been commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an input to a proposed study on the impact of aid on Botswana. The report is based on a review of literature focusing on the development of ...
    • Dealing with the good and the evil. Introducing morality as an anthropological concern 

      Lønning, Dag Jørund (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)
      Questions of morality and ethics - good and evil - have not been anthropological favourites. Such issues have been addressed within certain applied environments as well as currently within American cultural anthropology, ...
    • 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 ...
    • Economic Analysis of Land Degradation in Indonesian Upland 

      Arifin, Bustanul (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 ...
    • Eneweyay (Let's Discuss). Report from a training programme for democracy in rural Ethiopia 

      Pausewang, Siegfried (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 ...
    • Human Rights Self-Monitoring:A Proposal for the Northern European Democracies 

      Donnelly, Jack; Howard, Rhoda E. (Research report, Research report, 1996)
      This report recommends that Human Rights in Developing Countries adopt a radically new approach to monitoring human rights. The "old way" is to monitor aid-recipient governments' violations of the human rights of their own ...
    • Debt and Deforestation: A Tenuous Link 

      Angelsen, Arild; Culas, Richard (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)
      This paper examines the hypothesis that heavy foreign debt causes high rates of tropical deforestation. Empirical evidence indicates that no universally valid link exists between debt and deforestation - in either direction. ...
    • Political Institutions and Economic Reform: Zambia and South Africa in Comparative Context 

      Rakner, Lise; Skålnes, Tor (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)
      This paper presents the theoretical and methodological framework of a joint research project by Lise Rakner and Tor Skålnes, "Political Liberalisation and Economic Reform in Southern Africa". The project consists of two ...
    • Institutional Approaches to the Study of International Organisation 

      Stokke, Hugo (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)
      This paper gives an overview of changes and shifts in the study of international organisation and notes that research has gradually moved away from the study of de facto organisations to studies of international cooperation ...
    • Angola og norsk bistand 

      Tvedten, Inge (Research report, Research report, 1996)
      Angola is currently passing through a political, economic and social crisis deeper than in most other African countries. The MPLA government and the former rebel movement UNIT A signed a peace agreement in Lusaka in November ...
    • Deforestation and entrepreneurship in the North West Frontier Province, Pakistan 

      Knudsen, Are J. (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)
      Deforestation is a global environmental concern, but the underlying processes vary across regions and countries. In Pakistan the threat to forests and biodiversity does not come primarily from local farmers, but from ...
    • CMI Bibliography 1965-1995 

      Brekke, Hilde; Sperrevik, Hilde (Research report, Research report, 1996)
      This is a bibliography listing the works of researchers at Chr. Michelsen Institute during the period 1965-1995. It aims to cover all publications with the exception of artic1es in newspapers. Hilde Brekke is currently ...
    • Bistand og næringsutvikling. Noen kommentarer til St. meld. nr. 19 (1995-96) 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)
      St. meld. nr. 19 (1995-96) tar til orde for en sterkere binding av bistandsmidlene til norske eksportleveranser og norske investeringer i u-land. Meldingen tar videre til orde for at bistandssamarbeidet skal utvides til ...
    • Fish as vehicle for economic development in post-independence Namibia 

      Sumaila, Ussif Rashid (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)
      A key fishery policy issue decided by the new government of Namibia soon after independence in 1990 relates to the division of the total allowable catch for hake between wetfish and freezer trawlers. Using economic and ...
    • Microcredit programmes: Methods for solving dilemmas of credit expansion 

      Wiig, Arne (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)
      Providing credits seems to be an effective tool for improving the welfare of the poor. It is expected that microcredit funding to poor people will expand rapidly over the coming years. If a sound monitoring mechanism is ...