Sluttseminaret for STEAL-prosjektet: Skattesvik og kvitvasking
Dette seminaret markerer avslutninga av prosjektet "Systems of Tax Evasion and Laundering: Locating Global Wealth Chains in the International Political Economy (STEAL)”. Hovudfunnet for prosjektet vil bli presentert og diskutert.
Legal Regimes and Women's Economic Agency (WomEcon)
The project's objective is to improve our understanding of how legal regimes and legal changes affect the economic agency of different subgroupes of women across the world...
Energitryggleik i Nord-Europa og Baltikum
Tema for dette rundebordseminar er energitryggleik i Nord-Europa og Baltikum, verknadene av konflikten i Ukraina og korleis den nye europeiske energiunionen vil påverke på energitryggleiken.
Frozen Moments: Visualizing the Polity in Times of Overheating
We are living in a new epoch: the Anthropocene, where the world is overheated by human activity, driven too fast and filled too full, uneven and unequal. This collection explores the question of identity in this new world, looking at the consequences of rapidly accelerating change on social and personal identities and providing a concrete set of perspectives on how people conceive their selves and belonging in the twenty-first century. Featuring examinations of the Phiippines, Israel, Australia, the Cape Verde Islands, and Afghanistan, the book studies changes generated by rapid industrialization, forced return of migrants, sudden population growth, and the touristification of local cultures.
Policy options for sustainability and resilience in potato value chains in Bihar: a system dynamics approach
Potatoes are an important crop for food security in Bihar, providing significant income generating activities for participating farmers and an additional source of diet diversification for consumers. Recent reforms to the Agriculture Production Market Committee (APMC) Act and improvements in state-wide governance have provided further incentives for investment in the potato sector, particularly in cold storage facilities that can mitigate seasonal price fluctuations and improve the availability of potatoes. At the same time, climate change could have severe ramifications on the potato sector in Bihar, with some forecasts redicting a decline in yields of over 20 percent in the coming decades. In this paper, we look at the quantitative impacts over time of different investment, trade, and policy scenarios in the potato value chain, particularly those that can mitigate climate change effects, using a system dynamics model of the potato value chain that builds on previous qualitative studies (e.g. Minten et al. 2011). Preliminary results highlight that reducing storage costs, either through subsidies or increased competition, could reduce the price variability inherent with climatic shocks. On the other hand, encouraging conventional types of cold storage could have additional feedback effects that exacerbate climatic shocks, suggesting a need to consider “climate-smart” investments.
Klatrer på global rangering
NUPI er på tredjeplass blant myndighetstilknyttede tenketanker i den internasjonale og velrenommerte rangeringen Global go to think tank index.
Den arktiske fremtiden
Den globale og raskt voksende interessen for Arktis stiller nye krav til sikkerhetspolitikken.