CMI Reports

CMI Report | 1992

Trade unions in processes of democratisation. A study of party labour relations in Zamiba

This report assesses the role of labour in the recent transition to multi-party rule in Zambia. The main question considered is to what extent labour, through its policy-making organ the...
Lise Rakner (1992)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 1992:6) 177 p.
CMI Report | 1992

Multiple inflasjonslikevekter og deres stabilitet: En drøfting av stabiliseringsprogrammene i Argentina, Brasil og Israel på midten av 1980-tallet

Notatet gir en oversikt over diskusjonen bak stabiliseringsprogrammene i Argentina, Brasil og Israel på midten av 1980, der den årlige inflasjonsraten ble redusert fra over 500% til mellom 20% og...
Odd-Helge Fjeldstad (1992)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report D 1992:5) 21 p.
CMI Report | 1992

Setting a standard for Africa? Lessons from the 1991 Zambian elections

This report provides an assessment of the transition to a multi-party system of government in Zambia. The first section gives a general background to processes of democratisation in Africa, while...
Bård-Anders Andreassen, Gisela Geisler and Arne Tostensen (1992)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 1992:5) 137 p.
CMI Report | 1992

Økonomisk velferdsteori og fordelingsaspektet

Notatet behandler en del prinsipielle poenger som er vesentlige når fordelingsvirkninger av offentlige prosjekter i utviklingsland drøftes. Det teoretiske grunnlaget for velferdsfunksjonen forsøkes klargjort, og de teoretiske problemene knyttet til...
Odd-Helge Fjeldstad (1992)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report D 1992:4) 22 p.
CMI Report | 1992

Norwegian development aid evaluations 1980-1989. A Bibliography

This is the second volume in a bibliographical series on Norwegian development policy and development research in the 1980s. This bibliography registers and covers evaluation studies and project-related pre-feasibility studies...
Terje Tvedt, Hilde Brekke and Eldar Bråten (1992)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 1992:4) 71 p.
CMI Report | 1992

Economic reconstruction and the peasants in Ethiopia. Two papers presented at the symposium on the Ethiopian economy, with a postscript

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...
Cheru Fantu and Siegfried Pausewang (1992)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report D 1992:3) 66 p.
CMI Report | 1992

"Kvinner i utvikling" i Gambia. Nye kjønnsrelasjoner med hjelp fra Verdensbanken?

I artikkelen diskuteres sannsynligheten for at jordbruks- og helsekomponenten i et stort, nylig igangsatt prosjekt, Kvinner i utvikling i Gambia, skal kunne imøtekomme kvinners kjønnsrelaterte behov. Artikkelen konkluderer med at...
Heidi Skramstad (1992)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report D 1992:2) 25 p.
CMI Report | 1992

Politics, adminstration and agricultural development. The case of Botswana's Accelcerated Rainfed Arable Programme

This is a case study of a large programme for arable faring in Botswana from 1985 to 1990. The focus is upon the organization of the programme. The study seeks...
Kjetil Børhaug (1992)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 1992:2) 158 p.
CMI Report | 1992

Politisk liberalisering og økonomisk reform

Notatet bygger på et foredrag for hovedfagsstudenter i sammenlignende politikk på "Finseseminaret" i februar 1992. Teorier om sammenhengen mellom demokrati og økonomisk liberalisering gjennomgås og diskuteres med referanse til Ghana...
Tor Skålnes (1992)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report M 1992:1) 10 p.
CMI Report | 1992

Population and development planning. A demographic study of Hambantota integrated rural development programme in Sri Lanka

The present study, undertaken as part of the background research for an evaluation of the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), analyses the demographic characteristics and trends of Hambantota district...
Armindo Miranda and Soma de Silva (1992)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 1992:1) 75 p.
CMI Report | 1992

Strengthening cooperation in documentation for development. A seminar on networking with special emphasis on NGO's, Paris 3-6 September 1991

Report and papers from the 1991 EADI I & D Working Group seminar. 120 representatives from NGOs international organisations, documentalists and librarians set up task force groups and discussed electronic...
European Ass. of Dev. Research and Train. Inst. EADI and Working Group of Information and Documentation (1992)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report D 1992:1) 214 p.
CMI Report | 1991

Inner frontiers: Santal responses to acculturation

The Santals who constitute one of the largest communities in India belong to the Austro- Asiatic linguistic group. They have managed to keep their language and their traditional system of...
Marine Carrin-Bouez (1991)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 1991:6) 82 p.
CMI Report | 1991

Rural conditions for democracy in Ethiopia. Peasant self-determination and the state

Siegfried Pausewang (1991)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report D 1991:5) 18 p.
CMI Report | 1991

Cost-benefit analysis, discounting and the environmental critique: Overloading of the discount rate?

The use of (high) discount rates in cost-benefit analysis is being criticized in the environmental debate. In particular, some feel that high future environmental costs do not get a fair...
Arild Angelsen (1991)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 1991:5) 54 p.
CMI Report | 1991

Food insecurity and coping strategies among the lower income urban households in Malawi

This paper highlights the main findings of a survey carried out amongst low income groups in Lilongwe and Blantyre, Malawi's two major cities. The survey covered employment and incomes, expenditure...
Wycliffe Chilowa (1991)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 1991:4) 22 p.
CMI Report | 1991

Discources of gender and caste in rural South India: An analysis of the ideology of impurity

Karin Kapadia (1991)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report D 1991:4) 43 p.
CMI Report | 1991

Islam, menneskerettigheter og utviklingsprosesser

Denne studien undersøker islams forhold til menneskerettighetene og muligheten for en utvikling av islamsk tenkning til også å omfatte den moderne menneskerettighetstanken. Med utgangspunkt i framveksten av forskjellige teologiske posisjoner...
Lars Gule (1991)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 1991:3) 143 p.
CMI Report | 1991

Structural adjustment and poverty

Wycliffe Chilowa (1991)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report D 1991:3) 14 p.
CMI Report | 1991

Liberation of agricultural produce marketing and household food security in Malawi. Preliminary results from baseline survey

Wycliffe Chilowa (1991)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report D 1991:2) 26 p.
CMI Report | 1991

Towards human rights assessments of development projects

Hanne Lund Madsen (1991)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report M 1991:2) 54 p.