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    • Teoriskapt virkelighet? Ny-klassisk teori og kvinnelige økonomiske aktører 

      Bøe, Turid (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)
      Kjønnsaspektet er generelt sett fraværende i økonomiske analyser. Fraværet er tradisjonelt blitt oppfattet som en refleksjon av de økonomiske problemstilingenes og den økonomiske teoriens kjønnsnøytralitet, men er i den ...

    • Turning but not Toppling Malthus: Boserupian Theory on Population and the Environment Relationships 

      Marquette, Catherine (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)
      Subsequently to the Brundtland Report, the 1992 Earth Summit, and the resu1ting Agenda 21, the issue of population and development has increasingly evolved into discussion on the "population, environment and development ...

    • Land dispute and death enmity in a Kohistani mountain village (Pakistan) 

      Knudsen, Are (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1998)
      This paper reconstructs the events that unleashed death enmity between two closely related men. Recounting this complex story from the angle of the contestants challenges simplistic cultural and material explanations of ...

    • Democracy and Violence: The Colombian Paradox 

      Tuft, Eva Irene (Research report, Research report, 1997)
      This study argues that the Colombian paradox between formal democracy and endemic political violence is a direct result of the narrow polity established by elite pacts. Through an analysis of the Colombian situation and ...

    • Boikott til hvilken pris? Barns situasjon i Irak og Burundi. Rapport for Redd Barna 

      Dia, Mona (Research report, Research report, 1998)
      This report, commissioned by Save the Children, Norway, discusses the impact of international sanctions on children's situation in Iraq and Burundi. The report recognises that sanctions raise the ethical question of whether ...

    • Korrupsjon. En studie av skatteadministrasjonen i Tanzania 

      Bjerkeland, Kristin M. (Research report, Research report, 1998)
      The primary concern of this study is to discuss the role of various economic factors in explaining the causes, consequences and scope of fiscal corruption in Tanzania. The emphasis is on how the incentive structure within ...

    • Does Aid to Institution Development Work? Reflections on Personal Experiences 

      Nordbye, Ole David Koht (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 ...

    • 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 ...