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Jens Chr. Andvig

Research Professor Emeritus
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Summary

Jens Chr. Andvig’s main fields are comparative economics and political economy.  Further sub-areas focused on in a comparative perspective have been interactions between the public sector and the market economy - such as corruption, public procurement and transition from socialist  to market economy - and between family organization and  the formal sector, more specifically corruption, transition from family based to formal economies, child labor and child soldiering.

Expertise

  • International economics
  • Development policy
  • Africa

Education

1986 Dr. philos, University of Oslo, Department of Economics

1975 Master's degree in economics, University of Oslo, Department of Economics.

Work Experience

1999 Research for the World Bank, developing new strategies for the bank in the field of child labour in Africa.

1980- Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow/Research Professor at NUPI

Aktivitet

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Research Project
2015 - 2020 (Completed)

Responsible Innovation and Happiness: A New Approach to the Effects of ICTs (HAPPY)

The project intends to contribute to the responsible innovation literature by carrying out a set of conceptual and empirical studies on the socio-economic effects of ICTs, considering positive impacts...

  • Cyber
  • International economics
  • Economic growth
  • Trade
  • Globalisation
  • Regional integration
  • Development policy
  • Governance
  • The EU
  • Cyber
  • International economics
  • Economic growth
  • Trade
  • Globalisation
  • Regional integration
  • Development policy
  • Governance
  • The EU
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Research Project
2013 - 2016 (Completed)

The state, globalization and industrial development in India: the political economy of regulation and deregulation (INDEVIND)

This project will study the role of the state in industrial development in India....

  • International economics
  • Development policy
  • Asia
  • Governance
  • International economics
  • Development policy
  • Asia
  • Governance
Publications
Publications
Chapter

Grabbing by strangers: crime and policing in Kenya

  • Africa
  • Africa
Publications
Publications
Report

A Political Economy of Slum Spaces: Mathare Valley

  • Development policy
  • Africa
  • Development policy
  • Africa
Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Barndom, barn og globalisering - politikk og idéspredning

  • Humanitarian issues
  • Humanitarian issues
Publications
Publications
  • Europe
Publications
Publications
Report

Cops and Crime in Kenya

  • Africa
  • Africa
Research Project
2011 - 2013 (Completed)

Slums, states and citizens: Policing, welfare services and political participation among the urban poor in New Delhi, Nairobi and Durban

The primary objective is to contribute to an understanding of the constraints and opportunities for effective poverty alleviation among the urban poor....

  • Development policy
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Development policy
  • Africa
  • Asia
Publications
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