Keynote lecture: Professor Kashik Basu ( Cornell University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA ): The economics of coercion and labour rights

Comments and discussions

Janne Niemi: Trade policy, factor markets and social structures in Africa

Renato Aguilar: The exporting behaviour of Cuba’s agriculture. An empirical inquiry.

Wusheng Yu: Integration of the international rice market: Implications for trade liberalization.

Leena Kerkelä: Barter networks, monopolistic competition and opening to international trade.

Halvor Mehlum: Plunder & Protection Inc

Karl O. Moene: Destructive creativity

Jesper J. Kühl: Risk-coping Strategies without Markets - How do Agricultural Households in Developing Countries cope with risk in the absence of risk and capital markets.

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller: Off-farm activities by agricultural households in Nicaragua : Exploiting comparative advantages or fighting agricultural problems?

Quamrul Ahsan: Social capital, Insurance and migration: Theory and tests.

2 A:  Liberalisation and growth

Daniel Waldenström: Does international financial liberalization and integration spur economic growth?

Carsten Eckel: Technology sourcing and strategic FDI

Jørn Rattsø: International spillovers, productivity growth and openness in Thailand : An intertemporal general equilibrium analysis

Rune Jansen Hagen: Foreign aid and Social Sector Spending in Developing Countries.

Henrik Hansen: On the empirics of foreign aid and growth

Arve Ofstad: Filling the financial and institutional “gap” between relief and development

Fitsum Hagos: The impact of credit on changes in welfare of rural households: Empirical Evidence from Northern Ethiopia.

Stein Holden: Non-farm income, household welfare and sustainable land management

Magnus Hatlebakk: Why the poor prefer to stay poor

3 A:  Poverty and reform

Jorge Buzaglo: Analysing Bolivian poverty reduction strategies: Database and model construction

Gaute Torsvik: Sticks and carrots for the alleviation of long term poverty

Rune Skarstein: Economic liberalisation and smallholder productivity in Tanzania – an empirical and theoretical criticism

Carl-Erik Schulz: Water pricing reform, economic welfare and inequality

Munacinga Simatele: Monetary reforms in Zambia

Arne Melchior: Global income inequality

Rasmus Heltberg: Causes of inequality in Vietnam

Keynote lecture. Dr Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist (Human Development Network, World Bank): Service delivery and human development

Comments and discussions

Tuuli Koivu: Does financial sector development affect economic growth in transition countries?

Ivar Kolstad and Line Tøndel: How do effective social development policies and institutions impact on the investment climate in developing countries.

Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås: Information technology, richness of services and income distribution: is ICT after all the great equalizer?

Tina Søreide: Privatisation and political preferences

Jan Petterson: Democracy, regime stability and growth

Kjetil Bjorvatn: Anti-corruption reforms in tax revenue authorities: Gradualism or a big push?

Jens Chr. Andvig: An essay on child labour in Sub-Saharan Africa – A bargaining approach

Ghazala Naz: Education and quality-quantity trade-off in Pakistani women’s fertility decisions

Rasmus Heltberg: How parental education affects child human capital: Evidence from Mozambique

Espen Villanger: Strategic recipients, company interests and non-altruistic donors: Playing donors out against each other

Karl Pedersen: Foreign aid, incentives and strategic behaviour – some basic analytics

Anne Olhoff: Analytical Approaches for Decision Making, Sustainable Development and Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Policies.

Anders Skonhoft: The bioeconomics of controlling an African rodent pest species