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'A house of straw, sticks or bricks'? Some notes on corruption empirics
(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 ... -
Trade and development - a selective review
(NUPI Working Paper;681, Working paper, 2005)This paper reviews parts of the recent literature on trade and growth. The relationships between trade and growth have been extensively studied in recent research. Many studies indicate that trade stimulates income and ... -
Trade Openness and Economic Growth : Do Institutions Matter?
(NUPI Working Paper;702, Working paper, 2006)Do lower policy-induced barriers to international trade promote economic growth in countries with poorly developed institutions? Several studies have found a general and positive relationship between trade openness and ... -
Review of the Norwegian Program for Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala
(NUPI Working Paper;703, Working paper, 2006)The present review was commissioned in order to assess how the current project portfolio of the Norwegian Indigenous Peoples Program in Guatemala corresponds to the approved strategy, and to develop more concrete ... -
The Congo war and the prospects of state formation : Rwanda and Uganda compared
(NUPI Working Paper;675, Working paper, 2005)This paper analyses the effect of the Congo war on state power in Rwanda and Uganda. Drawing on theories of European state formation, it asks whether the Congo war has led to a strengthening of the state in the two ... -
Utenlandsinvesteringer i fiskeri- og havbruksnæringen - resultater fra en spørreundersøkelse
(NUPI Working Paper;705, Research report, 2006)Notatet gjengir en undersøkelse blant norske fiskeribedrifters investeringer i utlandet. Undersøkelsen er basert på dybdeintervjuer med 10 bedrifter. Bedriftene omfatter store konsern og små bedrifter innenfor flere deler ... -
As safe as the Bank? : Household financial behaviour and economic reasoning in post-soviet Russia
(NUPI Working Paper;687, Working paper, 2005)This study examines the financial behaviour of Russian households from the collapse of communism to the financial melt down in August 1998. By transforming savings into investment, financial intermediaries are important ... -
Geographical spread of corruption : Policies, institutions and cross-country economic interaction. Part I: Issues, theory
(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 ... -
The battle for Azerbaijan : Azeri Perspectives on the Observation of the 2005 Parliamentary Elections and the Post-Election Period
(NUPI Working Paper;697, Working paper, 2006)This report seeks to highlight the role of international observer missions of the 9 November 2005 parliamentary election in Azerbaijan. It also presents in-depth assessments of the pre- and post-election situation in the ... -
Corruption in China and Russia compared : Different legacies of central planning
(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 ... -
The German ICT industry : Spatial employment and innovation patterns
(NUPI Working Paper;674, Working paper, 2005)This paper documents recent developments in German ICT industries. In particular we report results on spatial patterns in innovation and employment in these industries. The paper is motivated by previous studies that ... -
Sistani, the United States and Politics in Iraq : From Quietism to Machiavellianism?
(NUPI Working Paper;700, Working paper, 2006)This paper discusses the two prevailing interpretations of the political attitudes of the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the leading Shiite cleric in Iraq today. It is argued that neither the traditional “quietist” ... -
The Norwegian import regime for agriculture
(NUPI Working Paper;684, Working paper, 2005)Norway maintains one of the highest levels of protection for agriculture in the OECD, but the tariff structure is not so transparent due to the extensive use of specific tariffs, i.e. tariffs expressed in NOK/kg or the ... -
Early Intervention with Violent and Racist Youth Groups
(NUPI Working Paper;677, Working paper, 2005)The present book provides insights into the processes and motivations invol-ved in group formation and joining, as well as into group cohesiveness and dis-integration, and the processes whereby individual members disengage ... -
French foreign policy and the limits of Europeanisation : The changing French position on EU enlargement
(NUPI Working Paper;692, Working paper, 2005)This article focuses on the changing French position on EU enlargement. The aim of the analysis is to study the interplay between the foreign policy of the EU and the foreign policy of France, but also between the official ... -
Strategic Adaption or Identity Change? : An analysis of Britain's Approach to the ESDP 1998-2004
(NUPI Working Paper;688, Working paper, 2005)In this working paper, Kristin Marie Haugevik seeks to analyse the nature of the changes in Britain’s approach to the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) after 1998. Ever since the beginning of the European ... -
Perifere tilskuere eller sentrale aktører: Demokratene og utformingen av amerikansk utenrikspolitikk
(NUPI Working Paper;676, Working paper, 2005)In critically important parts of the cold war era the Democratic Party was the steward of American foreign policy. But since September 11. 2001, the party has, however, mostly been a bystander to the major transformation ... -
Child soldiers: Reasons for variation in their rate of recruitment and standards of welfare
(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? ... -
Norge og multilateralt samarbeid : Mot en ny politikk?
(NUPI Working Paper;701, Working paper, 2006)I Soria Moria-erklæringen varslet den nye regjeringen at den multilaterale bistanden i økende grad skal forskyves fra Verdensbanken til utviklingsprogrammer og nødhjelpstiltak i regi av FN-organer. Norsk bistand skal ... -
The political economy of Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR)
(NUPI Working Paper;709, Working paper, 2006)Selective literature review and preliminary agenda for research: Recent insights on war economies have important implications for disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR). This paper identifies an underlying ...