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Population and Environment Relationships in Developing Countries: A Select Review of Approaches and Methods
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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. ... -
Social Relations of Poverty: A Case-Study from Owambo, Namibia
(Research report, Research report, 1999)Evidence from a number of quantitative studies on poverty in Namibia suggests that poverty is widespread, albeit unevenly distributed. The relatively high GDP per capita conceals wide income differentials by geographical ... -
The impact of the financial and economic crisis in Asia on Norway's major development partners. Report submitted to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(Research report, Research report, 1999)This report first describes the currency, financial and economic crises in Asia and analyses how the crises evolved. The second part analyses how the three types of crises affect selected Norwegian development partners in ... -
Humanitarian assistance during conflict in a state-less society: The case of Somalia
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1999)This working paper was prepared for the workshop on "Aid and Humanitarian Assistance in Africa" in Arusha, 27-29 June, 1998, with financial support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is based on a series ... -
Liberalization of Trade in Producer Services - the Impact on Developing Countries
(Research report, Research report, 1999)This paper analyzes the impact of liberalization of trade in producer services, focusing on financial services, telecommunications and transport. The likely effects on developing countries is that they will become net ... -
Bergen Seminar on Development 1999. Making South-North organisational cooperation an effective instrument for institution building
(Research report, Research report, 1999)The Bergen Seminar on Development 1999 focused on aid funded institutional partnerships and twinning, and the extent that these are effective mechanisms for promoting organisational change and institution building. ... -
Local government taxation and tax administration in Tanzania
(Research report, Research report, 1999)Local taxes represent less than 5 per cent of total tax revenues in Tanzania. However, the large number of these taxes, together with their unsatisfactory nature, means that their economic, political and social impacts are ... -
Why people pay taxes. The case of the development levy in Tanzania
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1998)This study sheds some light on some of the factors underlying tax compliance in local authorities in Tanzania with the help of original survey data. We use the experience of the poll tax (locally named "development levy" ... -
Profitt eller moral? Ein diskusjon om næringslivsinteresser og menneskerettar
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1998)Koplinga mellom menneskerettar og næringslivsinteresser har for alvor vorten satt på dagsorden dei siste par åra. I stadig sterkare grad vert det stilt krav til bedriftane om at dei ikkje kan forhalda seg passivt til brot ... -
Political Corruption: An Introduction to the Issues
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1999)Corruption is generally defined as the misuse of public authority, and political corruption is here defined as corruption in which the political decision-makers are involved. In addition to a review of the various definitions ... -
Protected Marine Reserves as Fisheries Management Tools: A Bioeconomic Analysis
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1998)This paper develops a dynamic computational bioeconomic model with the objective of assessing protected marine reserves as fisheries management tools. Data on the North East Atlantic cod stock are used to determine the ... -
Truth in transition. The role of truth commissions in political transition in Chile and El Salvador
(Research report, Research report, 1999)Truth Commissions are increasingly being used as one mechanism in a broader strategy to consolidate democratic governance following a period of authoritarian rule. However, there has been little research on the impact ... -
Civil Society in Tanzania
(Research report, Research report, 2000)There has been a tremendous growth in non-governmental organisations in Tanzania over the last decades, and with the many reforms presently taking place, the civil society is expected to play a central role in both service ... -
Angola 1999/2000. Key Development Issues and National Research Capacity
(Research report, Research report, 2000)This is the first report on Angola under the Country Advisor Agreement between the Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation (NORAD), the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and the Nordic Consulting Group (NCG). The report ...