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Institutions and GMOs : shaping perspectives and organisms
(PhD Thesis;2010:35, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This thesis is written within the contemporary classical institutional economics tradition. The intention has been to provide insight into how different institutions can enable us to avoid harmful effects and generate ... -
Land policy reform and land rental markets in Ethiopia : equity, productivity and welfare implications
(PhD Thesis;2010:24, Doctoral thesis, 2010)The land holding system in most developing countries is not purely an economic affair. It is very much intertwined with people’s culture and identity. That is partly why land-related issues usually generate intense emotional ... -
Unlocking the concept of capacity in modern fisheries management
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Treatment of undesirable outputs in production analysis : desirable modeling strategies and applications
(PhD Thesis;2011:38, Doctoral thesis, 2011)The thesis consists of an introduction and four related papers. Their common topic is production analysis when undesirable outputs are accounted for. The introduction establishes the research platform on which the following ... -
Caste discrimination, land tenure, and natural resource management in Nepal
(PhD Thesis;2011:03, Doctoral thesis, 2011)The dissertation investigates the issues related to land tenancy transactions, land productivity and land related investment with a due focus on caste discrimination in the Nepalese rural society. This study also explores ... -
Access to productive assets and impact on household welfare in rural Uganda
(PhD Thesis;2011:27, Doctoral thesis, 2011)This thesis assesses the impact of access to productive assets on the welfare of rural farm households in Uganda. It consists of an introduction paper and five other independent papers. Paper I provides robust empirical ... -
Socioeconomic status and health : the role of lifestyle choices
(PhD Thesis;2012:4, Doctoral thesis, 2012)This thesis focuses on the relationship between socioeconomic status, health and related lifestyle choices. It uses repeated cross-section and stated preference data from Norway and consists of four papers. The first paper ... -
Efficiency, risk and management of fisheries sector in Bangladesh
(PhD Thesis;2012:62, Doctoral thesis, 2012)This dissertation consists of an introduction and five independent papers on Bangladesh fisheries sector. The first paper investigates how the fishery sector has developed and identifies the potential problems faced by the ... -
The economics of dairy production : effects of breeding and marketing quotas
(PhD Thesis;2012:22, Doctoral thesis, 2012)This dissertation compiles four articles investigating the effects of breeding and marketing quota in dairy production. Farm level panel datasets from Norway and Iceland were used for the analysis. In the first article, ... -
Landholding, forest extraction and poverty in Uganda
(PhD Thesis;2012:53, Doctoral thesis, 2012)Motivated by a large body of literature that suggests land is a key determinant of livelihood strategies for farm households in developing countries, this thesis offers insights on how the mode of land acquisition at the ... -
Consumers and bioenergy : the effects of behavioural factors in households' heating consumption choice in Norway
(PhD Thesis;2013:63, Doctoral thesis, 2013)How energy consumers behave, namely, what type and how much of different energy products and services they consume, direct and indirect affects the environment, as well as personal (and collective) well-being. Understanding ... -
Consumer preferences for animal welfare : what can we learn from restaurant, store and web experiments?
(PhD Thesis;2014:60, Doctoral thesis, 2014)This thesis uses experimental methods to test Norwegian consumers’ preferences for animal welfare. First, it investigates the benefits of using such methods in consumer studies of credence goods in general, and in the case ... -
SME growth : the role of collectively competence-based resources
(PhD Thesis;2014:10, Doctoral thesis, 2014)High-growth firms contribute disproportionately to job and value creation. Previous research on high-growth firms has shown that high-growth firms are characterized by innovative qualities, have important spillover effects, ... -
Attaining secure rural livelihood : the role of household strategies and public interventions
(PhD Thesis;2014:93, Doctoral thesis, 2014)This dissertation uses survey data from Northern Ethiopia and Western Uganda to study the role of household strategies and public interventions in enabling households to attain secure rural livelihoods. The thesis composes ... -
Four essays on trade, foreign direct investment, and markets in Pakistan
(PhD Thesis;2014:24, Doctoral thesis, 2014)This dissertation seeks to study aspects of economic growth and development in Pakistan that have been pursued through enhancing commodity-specific exports, attracting foreign investment and improving the functioning of ... -
Pathways to development
(PhD Thesis;2014:73, Doctoral thesis, 2014)This thesis consists of four articles and an introduction. It contributes to the debate on development, development aid and poverty reduction, and identifies possible pathways to development. In particular, I study financing ... -
Tenure, forest use and policies for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+)
(PhD Thesis;2014:57, Doctoral thesis, 2014)The objectives of the thesis is to improve our understanding of what determine differences in access to and use of land and forest resources across households, introduce new methods to analyze this, and identify policy ... -
Forests and livelihoods in Malawi : looking beyond aggregate income shares
(PhD Thesis;2014:51, Doctoral thesis, 2014)This thesis assesses the role and determinants of forest products on livelihoods of rural households surrounding Chimaliro and Liwonde forest reserves in Malawi. The task is achieved in four independent but thematically-related ... -
Four empirical essays on agriculture and human capital in Sub-Saharan Africa
(PhD Thesis;2016:73, Doctoral thesis, 2016)The objective of this thesis is to shed light on households' agricultural investments and adaptation to climate risk and shocks, and how politicians and local customs may impact households' behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa. ... -
Conservation agriculture, livelihoods and deforestation in Zambia
(PhD Thesis;2016:102, Doctoral thesis, 2016)Conservation agriculture (CA) practices such as minimum tillage have been promoted for about two decades as a way to conserve soils and increase agricultural productivity and farm incomes in sub-Saharan Africa, including ...