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Demand for childhood vaccination - insights from behavioral economics
Journal Article | Dec 2010
Childhood vaccination is a powerful tool for reducing morbidity and premature deaths, and vaccines are usually provided for free. Despite this, several ...
vaccination, behavioural economics
Political and Economic Liberalisation in Zambia 1991-2001
Book | Jan 2003
Despite the optimistic forecasts in 1991, both the political and economic liberalisation processes in Zambia are today characterised by their partial ...
economic development, economic reform, donors, political development, Zambia
Exploring the relationship between socio-economic inequality, political instability and economic growth Why do we know so little?
CMI Working Paper | Feb 2012
The hypothesis that socio-economic inequality has a detrimental effect on economic growth by breeding political instability has been subject to empirical ...
Socio-economic inequality, Political instability, Economic growth, Investment, Gini variable, Diverging empirical findings, Methodological robustness, Measurement differences
Economic and social structures that may explain the recent conflicts in the Terai of Nepal
Commissioned Report | Jan 2007
We attempt to explain the present ethnic-based conflict in the Terai of Nepal by deeper social and economic structures. Based on previous research on ...
Nepal
Essays on industrial structure and economic growth
Commissioned Report | Jan 1997
(Dissertations in economics, University of Bergen)
Impact of mangement scenarios and fisheries gear selectivity on the potential economic gains from Namibian hake
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1999
This paper develops a model for Namibian hake, which incorporates the biology, gear selectivity and the economics of the hake fisheries in a framework ...
Africa: Namibia
The pluralist paradox. The decline of economic interest groups in Zambia in the 1990s
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000
The dilemma facing new democracies attempting to implement political and economic reform simultaneously is that democratisation may undermine economic ...
Africa: Zambia
Overview of Broad-Based Economic Empowerment: The Experience of Malaysia
Book Chapter | Jan 2007
Overview of Broad-Based Economic Empowerment: The Experience of Malaysia Just Faaland Bank of Nami
Economic conditions, Malaysia
Exploring the Relationship between Socio-Economic Inequality, Political Instability and Economic Growth: Why do We Know so Little?
Master's Thesis | Aug 2008
Exploring the Relationship between Socio-Economic Inequality, Political Instability and Economic Gr
The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change
Edited Book | Jan 2018
This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through ...
Budgetary processes and economic governance in Southern and Eastern Africa. Literature review.
Report in External Series | Jan 2004
This report is an overview of literature on budget processes and economic governance. The review takes stock of the latest advances in relevant international ...
Southern Africa, Eastern Africa
Complicance with economic and social human rights: Realistic evaluations and monitoring in the light of immediate obligations
Book Chapter | Jan 1992
The book chapter presents an analytical approach which contributes to a realistic framework for examining economic and social rights, even under conditions ...
Human rights, Economic and social rights, Poverty, Aid, Global
WTO/GATS and Economic Development: Key to "the New Economy"
Commissioned Report | Jan 2005
The major objective of the Programme WTO/GATS and Economic Development: Key to "the new economy" is to produce new theoretical and empirical insights ...
WTO/GATS, Economic Development, "the new economy", financial services, telecommunications, energy services, world economy, investment- and trade patterns, Africa: Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Economic growth, employment, and decentralised development in Sri Lanka
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000
This Working Paper describes the economic growth rate and patterns in Sri Lanka during the 1990s, showing the interrelationship between uneven sectorial ...
Asia: Sri Lanka
Economic Incentives for Peacebuilding
Report in External Series | Sep 2008
What does social science literature tell us about economic incentives for peacebuilding? A variety of such incentives exists in post-civil war situations. ...
economic incentives, peacebuilding, statebuilding, foreign aid, reparations, DDR, aid coordination
Female Empowerment and the Education of Children in Nepal
Journal Article | Jun 2016
There is sufficient evidence to say that female empowerment affects economic and social outcomes, in particular for girls. There is, however, no unified ...
Intrahousehold, female autonomy, South-Asia, Nepal
The influence and effects of financial development on economic growth. An empirical approach
CMI Report | Jan 2003
This study examines the empirical relationship between financial development and economic growth. The employed data set includes a representative selection ...
Economic growth, Developing countries, Econometrics, Financial sector
Do interest groups matter in economic policy- making? Reflections from a Zambian case study.
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1994
The current debate within development research strongly emphasise the role of interest groups in developing and sustaining democratic and liberal economic ...
Simulation of ecological and economic impacts of distant water fleets on Namibian fisheries
Journal Article | Jan 2000
Simulation of ecological and economic impacts of distant water fleets on Namibian fisheries Ussif R
The impact of the financial and economic crisis in Asia on Norway's major development partners. Report submitted for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
CMI Report | Jan 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 ...
Financial crisis, Economic crisis, Asia