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Evaluation of Fadcanic's teacher training program in Nicaragua's Southern autonomous region of the Atlantic Coast
(NUPI Working Paper;654, Working paper, 2003)Since 1997, FADCANIC has been implementing a training program for unqualified teachers working in primary schools of Nicaragua’s Southern autonomous region of the Atlantic Coast. SAIH, the Norwegian NGO that has been funding ... -
Norsk petro-power og terrorisme: Brennbart og brukbart redskap i norsk sikkerhetspolitikk?
(NUPI Working Paper;667, Working paper, 2004)Rapporten analyserer følgende sikkerhetspolitiske utfordringer: 1) Norges sikkerhetspolitiske marginalisering utenfor EU og innenfor et fragmentert NATO. 2) Olje- og gassproduksjon og leveransene til Europa er en viktig ... -
EUs forslag til nytt tjenestedirektiv : Samfunns- og næringsøkonomiske konsekvenser for Norge
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Tollnedtrapping for industrivarer i WTO - Virkninger for Norge
(NUPI Working Paper;660, Working paper, 2004)Notatet diskuterer mulige virkninger av tollreduksjoner gjennom forhandlinger i WTO for eksport av norske industrivarer. Ulike forslag om tollreduksjoner, som bruken av den såkalte Girards formel diskuteres. Det vises at ... -
The Intangible Globalization : Explaining the Patterns of International Trade in Services
(NUPI Working Paper;657, Working paper, 2003)We identify the determinants of service trade and foreign affiliate sales in a gravity model, using recently collected bilateral data for the OECD countries and their trading partners, as well as new indicators for barriers ... -
The Inferior Performance of State Owned Enterprises: Is it due to Ownership of Market Structure?
(NUPI Working Paper;633, Working paper, 2004)We analyze differences in performance between private companies (PCs) and state owned enterprises (SOEs), with an emphasis on the effects of market structure. We use a panel covering all registered companies during the ... -
North-South Trade and Wages with Complete Specialisation : Modifying the Stolper-Samuelson Relationship
(NUPI Working Paper;666, Working paper, 2004)From the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem, it is expected that North-South trade reduces the real wage of unskilled labour in the North. This paper questions the underlying assumption that trading countries are diversified, and ... -
Strengthening Cooperative Threat Reduction with Russia : The Norwegian Experience
(NUPI Working Paper;633, Working paper, 2002)Many nuclear safety and security challenges remain in Northwest Russia. Years of international cooperation – and substantial funding – are required to deal with the legacy of the extensive nuclear activities of the Cold ... -
How to deal with North Korea: Lessons from the JCPOA
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Geography and growth - some empirical evidence
(NUPI Working Paper;623, Working paper, 2002)Income in the world does not distribute randomly in space. There are geographic clusters of rich and poor countries. Also growth rates tend to be spatially clustered. Spatial regression analyses indicate that geographical ... -
French, UK, and US Policies to Support Peacekeeping in Africa: Current Status and Future Prospects
(NUPI Working Paper;622, Working paper, 2002)In May 1997, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States announced their joint “P-3 Initiative”, to harmonize their peacekeeping capacity-building programs in Africa and foster an open dialogue between donors and ... -
Kan valg av eksportmarked forklares med teorien om investeringer under usikkerhet? En økonomisk studie av atferden til norske fiskeeksportører
(NUPI Working Paper;624, Working paper, 2002)I denne artikkelen gjøres det rede for hvordan nye teorier for investeringer under usikkerhet kan anvendes til å forklare bedrifters eksportbeslutninger. Det gis en empirisk analyse basert på eksportadferden til norske ... -
Exit Neo-Nazism : Reducing Recruitment and Promoting Disengagement from Racist Groups
(NUPI Working Paper;627, Working paper, 2002)Young persons belonging to various types of right-wing extremist groups commit a large proportion of xenophobic and racist attacks. Measures against racial violence should therefore include interventions that reduce and ... -
Lovely but dangerous: The impact of patent citations on patent duration
(NUPI Working Paper;614, Working paper, 2001)What is the impact of patent citations on patent renewal behaviour? Patent citations are commonly used as an indicator of technology spillovers. For cited patents therefore, patent citations have a potentially ambiguous ... -
Local Elites meet Foreign Corporations : The Examples of Iran and Azerbaijan
(NUPI Working Paper;617, Working paper, 2001)Oil companies have jumped on the bandwagon of promotion of democracy and human rights, but without sufficient expertise in local conditions. What works in one country may backfire in another. Azeri democrats want the oil ... -
Multinationals Searching for R&D Spillovers : A Survey of the Literature
(NUPI Working Paper;629, Working paper, 2002)This paper surveys the literature on R&D and technology spillovers as a motive for FDI. During the last years, a growing body of theoretical studies has generated formal arguments supporting the economic rationale for such ... -
Linking Issues : Should one bargain over two issues simultaineously or separately?
(NUPI Working Paper;616, Working paper, 2001)International negotiations on trade (e.g. GATT and TRIPS) have typically been of the packageform, and different issues have therefore been linked to each other. Trade issues have not been linked to e.g. environmental ... -
Political Priorities and Economic Interests in Russian-Latvian Relations
(NUPI Working Paper;620, Working paper, 2001)The paper focuses on interaction of political and economic aspects in Russian-Latvian relations. During the most of the 1990´s, the relationship was dominated by the «conflict manifestation,» which could be witnessed during ... -
Recent Advances in Growth Theory. A Comparison of Neoclassical and Evolutionary Perspectives
(NUPI Working Paper;615, Working paper, 2001)Research on economic growth has experienced remarkable progress the last decade. The neoclassical perspective has benefited from development of new mathematical methods and new approaches to market structure, economics of ... -
Firms' export decisions - fixed trade costs and the size of the export market
(NUPI Working Paper;618, Working paper, 2001)This article presents two models of international trade under monopolistic competition. In increasing returns sectors firms face fixed, in addition to variable, trade costs, therefore both exporters and non-exporters may ...