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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