Knowledge of how the poor obtain and spend their income is important in designing pro-poor policies. Trade policy will affect welfare of the ...

A number of countries that are net importers of agricultural products have recently experienced tremendous price hikes on agricultural products. ...

This study investigates attitudes towards legalizing land sales and Willingness to Accept (WTA) sales prices and compensation prices for land ...

INTRODUCTION: Network industries—electricity, gas, road, telecommunications, and private water supply—need regulation in one way ...

The author tests two alternative models of price determination in informal rural credit markets, using LSMS data from Nepal. Strong support ...

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Within Popo society in Pointe Noire, Congo, fishermen sell their fish to their wives at a price slightly below the local market price. The wives ...

The Government of Tanzania is looking for the best policies and institutional designs to turn future petroleum revenues into welfare, development ...

This PhD project is part of the RCN funded Violence in the Post-conlict State. A provisional abstract of the thesis is below    This ...

This study gives a survey of different approaches to the study of quality in the theory of consumers' demand. The study is focusing on "address ...

This paper analyses how corruption may affect privatization. In particular, we study how corruption affects the acquisition price and the post-privatization ...

Between 2011 and 2013, sales of government oil from the ten biggest producers in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 56% of these countries’ ...

World food prices are fluctuating, and have on average increased during the last years. What shall we expect in the long run? Economist Stein T. Holden from UMB and geographer Peter Andersen from UiB discuss these issues with a focus on local knowledge and technological opportunities.

During the Egyptian uprisings against president Mubarak in 2011, people demanded bread, freedom and social justice. Bread is the daily staple for millions of Egyptians, and came to symbolize the demand for a fairer economic system. But does food insecurity necessarily cause social unrest and conflict?

The analysis shows that trade liberalisation can be expected to lead to higher growth. Namibia conforms to the typical SSA picture of low growth ...

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Malawi has been regarded by the World Bank as a "strong adjuster", since the introduction of its first structural adjustment programme in 1981. ...

We test two alternative models of interest rates determination in informal rural credit markets, using LSMS data from Nepal. We find strong ...