Blar i NUPI Research Online på forfatter "Andvig, Jens Christopher"
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'A house of straw, sticks or bricks'? Some notes on corruption empirics
Andvig, Jens Christopher (NUPI Working Paper;678, Working paper, 2005)Corruption has become a fashionable subject the last decade or so. The decades before it was neglected, and the phenomenon itself has been around as long as large-scale organisations. One reason for large shifts in ... -
A Polanyi Perspective on Post-Communist Corruption
Andvig, Jens Christopher (NUPI Working Paper;648, Working paper, 2003)The paper seeks to explain the present high levels of corruption in the post-communist countries, i.e. the centrally planned economies where the communist party lost power as the outcome of a specific historical process ... -
A Political Economy of Slum Spaces: Mathare Valley
Andvig, Jens Christopher; Barasa, Tiberius (NUPI-notat;838, Working Paper, 2014) -
An Essay on Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa - A Bargaining Approach
Andvig, Jens Christopher (NUPI Working Paper;613, Working paper, 2000)The separation of children from their families have a large number of social and economic aspects. At least the economic aspects are under-researched. At the point of transition of leaving their families somehow the ... -
Child soldiers: Reasons for variation in their rate of recruitment and standards of welfare
Andvig, Jens Christopher (NUPI Working Paper;704, Working paper, 2006)Why do some children voluntarily join while other children are forced to join military organization in situations of conflict, and why do the organizations recruit them? How is the actual number of children determined? ... -
Cops and Crime in Kenya
Andvig, Jens Christopher; Barasa, Tiberius (NUPI-notat;794, Working Paper, 2011) -
Corporate Social Responsibility when Ethical Beliefs and State of Public Governance vary
Andvig, Jens Christopher (NUPI-notat;822, Working Paper, 2013) -
Corruption and fast change: Shifting modes of micro-coordination
Andvig, Jens Christopher (NUPI Working Paper;650, Working paper, 2003)The paper studies the effects on corruption of having coexisting, contradictory norms for allocating different micro-coordination modes across society. One important reason for their coexistence is fast change, and links ... -
Corruption in China and Russia compared : Different legacies of central planning
Andvig, Jens Christopher (NUPI Working Paper;679, Working paper, 2005)During the first decade after markets became the major mechanisms of economic coordination in China and the area of the former Soviet Union (FSUA), corruption was perceived to increase in both. At the same time China ... -
Corruption in former USSR countries and international oil business in Azerbaijan
Andvig, Jens Christopher (NUPI Rapport;253, Research report, 1999)This research report presents an analysis of corruption in Azerbaijan. We have mainly relied on secondary sources. Since data on observed corruption are scarce and unsystematic, we had to give much emphasis on background ... -
Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa and its sources of evidence
Andvig, Jens Christopher (Working paper;744, Working paper, 2008) -
Corruption. A review of contemporary research
Andvig, Jens Christopher; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Amundsen, Inge; Sissener, Tone Kristin; Søreide, Tina (NUPI Report;268, Research report, 2001)This report is an overview of contemporary research on corruption. The main objectives of the study have been to organise existing knowledge on corruption, discuss the major controversies within and across disciplines and ... -
Crime, Police Corruption and Development Evidence from Victimization Data
Andvig, Jens Christopher; Attila, Gbewopo (Working Paper;772, Working Paper, 2010) -
Crime, Poverty and Police Corruption in Non-Rich Countries
Andvig, Jens Christopher; Fjeldstad, Odd Helge (Working Paper;738, Working Paper, 2008) -
Family-controlled Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa - A Survey of Research
Andvig, Jens Christopher (NUPI Working Paper;612, Working paper, 2000)The paper presents and analyzes recent research into child labor problems in Africa, mainly made by economists and social anthropologists. It focuses on the labor performed in African households and controlled by the family. -
Geographical spread of corruption : Policies, institutions and cross-country economic interaction. Part I: Issues, theory
Andvig, Jens Christopher (NUPI Working Paper;695, Working paper, 2006)The international aspects of corruption have received considerable attention in both research and policy: What determines whether a country is highly corrupt or not? Most research has sought to answer this question by ... -
Public procurement and organized crime – illustrated with examples from Bulgaria, Italy and Norway
Andvig, Jens Christopher (NUPI-notat;813, Working Paper, 2012) -
Remarks on Private-to-private corruption
Andvig, Jens Christopher (NUPI Working Paper;635, Working paper, 2002)The OECD’s Anti-Bribery Convention may be regarded as the strongest international expression of the recent recognition of corruption as a major global issue. The convention aims to contain trans-border corruption by making ... -
State Bipolarity, Kin Organizations and Violent Collective Action
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The Challenge of Poor Governance and Corruption
Andvig, Jens Christopher (NUPI Working Paper;665, Working paper, 2004)The paper is the author’s so-called ‘Opponent paper « to Susan Rose- Ackerman’s proposals for good governance and anti-corruption poli-cies at the Copenhagen Consensus 2004 meeting 24–28 May. There the most promising ...