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    • The economic organisation of specific assets 

      Kvaløy, Ola (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)
      In the international offshore industry we find that the oil companies and their main suppliers usually operate with separate ownership. But the main contractors manage a capital stock, and produce inputs, that are highly ...

    • Economic growth, employment, and decentralised development in Sri Lanka 

      Ofstad, Arve (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 ...

    • The Pluralist Paradox. The Decline of Economic Interest Groups in Zambia in the 1990s 

      Rakner, Lise (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)
      The dilemma facing new democracies attempting to implement political and economic reform simultaneously is that democratisation may undermine economic reform by encouraging political participation and empowering interest ...

    • Mozambique - a sub-Saharan African NIC? 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik; Pretorius, Leon (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)
      This paper analyzes and explains foreign direct investment (FDI) in Mozambique. The country was one of the fastest growing countries in the world during the second half of the 1990s, and FDI has followed growth with a lag. ...

    • Corruption. A review of Contemporary Research 

      Andvig, Jens Chr.; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Amundsen, Inge; Sissener, Tone; Søreide, Tina (Research report, Research report, 2001)
      During the last decade corruption has become a topical issue in the international development policy debate. Research on corruption has also expanded rapidly, taking many different directions both within and across ...

    • Research on corruption in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Uganda. What, who and where? 

      Andvig, Jens Chr.; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)
      This report provides an overview of corruption-related literature from five of Norway's priority partner countries in the developing world; i.e. Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Uganda. Both published and unpublished ...

    • Pastoralists in the Horn of Africa: The Continued Threat of Famine 

      Helland, Johan (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)
      This paper discusses the current food security crisis in the pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa. It tries to explain the recurrent famines with reference to same important features of pastoralism as a production system, ...

    • The UN and post-crisis aid: Towards a more political economy 

      Jones, Bruce D. (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)
      This paper reviews certain aspects of the post-crisis problem, as seen from within the UN. It outlines the wide variety in cases that fall within post-crisis policy, and suggests a basis for categorisation, which is crucial ...

    • Patterns of foreign direct investment in poor countries 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)
      This paper introduces endogenous adoption costs for productive assets in a Ramsey type growth model with international capital flows. There are two classes of productive assets: owner-specific and location-specific. Adoption ...

    • Supply chain management in the oil industry: The Angolan case 

      Wiig, Arne (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)
      This paper focuses on the organisation of the supply chain in the offshore oil industry, primarily the relationships between upstream oil-companies and their main contractors. From studies of the North Sea offshore industry, ...

    • Monetary Variables in Macmod. A note concerning the introduction of monetary variables in the Tanzanian macro economic model: Macmod 

      Granberg, Per (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)
      This paper discusses the relationship between money supply and production in Tanzania, wit special reference to Macmod, the macroeconomic model for Tanzania. The relationship between money supply and production is seen as ...

    • Taxation, coercion and donors. Local government tax enforcement in Tanzania 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)
      This paper presents three propositions about tax collection in local authorities in Tanzania. First, revenue performance depends on the degree of coercion involved in tax enforcement. Second, the extent of coercion depends ...

    • Post-war reconciliation and democratization: Concepts, goals and lessons learnt 

      Hydén, Göran (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)

    • Taxation, aid and democracy. An agenda for research in African countries 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Therkildsen, Ole; Rakner, Lise; Semboja, Joseph (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)
      Taxation, aid and democracy are closely related in poor aid-dependent African countries. The way they tackle the issue of domestic revenue mobilisation significantly influences their potential for economic growth and ...

    • Afghanistan: Current Humanitarian Challenges 

      Strand, Arne; Harpviken, Kristian Berg; Najimi, A.W. (Research report, Research report, 2001)
      More than twenty years of war and civil war and a severe drought has increased the vulnerability of the Afghan population. The warring fractions, the Taliban and the Northern Alliance, show low concern for the population ...

    • A cost-benefit framework for allocating SPS-related technical assistance 

      Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne (Research report, Research report, 2002)
      Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures designed to protect human, animal and plant health, constitute a significant barrier to exports of agricultural products from developing countries. Though the WTO Agreement on the ...

    • Governance for sustainability? Balancing social and environmental concerns in Harare 

      Kamete, Amin Y. (Research report, Research report, 2002)
      The paper examines urban governance in the framework of sustainable urban development. It agrees with most analyses that sustainable settlements embrace social, ecological and economic dimensions. The discussion stresses ...

    • A balanced view of development as freedom 

      Tungodden, Bertil (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)
      Amartya Sen, in his most recent book Development as Freedom, argues that expansion of human freedom should both be viewed as the primary end and the principle means of development. This paper provides an overview and a ...

    • Determinants of inflation in Tanzania 

      Laryea, Samuel A.; Sumaila, Ussif Rashid (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 ...

    • The status of the East Timor agricultural sector 1999 

      Rio, Narve (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)
      This working paper came about as a result of background research for a chapter in Social and Economic Conditions in East Timor, published by the International Conflict Resolution Program, School of International and Public ...