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Report in External Series | 2020
Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for revenue generation in poor African countries
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic the need in poor countries in Africa for more revenues is obvious and growing - also because aid agencies are quite stingy in...
Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS Working Paper no. 13: 2020) 61 p.

Journal Article | 2020
Too big to fault? Effects of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Norwegian exports to China and foreign policy
In October 2010, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel peace prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The Chinese government responded by freezing political and economic relations with Norway, introducing...
in International Political Science Review vol. 41 no. 2 pp. 207-223

Journal Article | 2020
Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Environmental and Resource Management
Corruption significantly affects the large majority of countries, and it has negative social and economic impacts. Its impacts on environmental and resource management (ERM) sectors are less well understood. We...
in Annual Review of Environment and Resources vol. 45

Journal Article | 2020
Fighting Wildlife Trafficking: An Overview of the EU’s Implementation of Its Action Plan Against Wildlife Trafficking
Illegal wildlife trade is one of the most profitable criminal activities. Illegal wildlife usually comes from African and Asian countries, with destination countries including China, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Singapore. However,...
in Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy vol. 23 no. 1 pp. 62-81

CMI Report | 2020
Literature Review: Democracy and Human Rights in contemporary Latin America (2015-2020) Trends, challenges, and prospects
Abstract
Through a review of scholarly and other well-informed articles as well as media reports, this CMI Report aims to summarize discussions on challenges for democracy and human rights in Latin...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2020:01)

Report in External Series | 2019
Building accountable resource governance institutions
Formal institutions are central actors in natural resource governance decisions and a key arena in which policies, laws and regulations ranging from forest concessions to trade in wildlife products are...
Washington D.C.: Targeting Natural Resource Corruption Consortium (TNRC Introductory Overview)

Book | 2019
Corruption, évitement fiscal, blanchiment dans le secteur extractif: de l'art de jouer avec le droit
Le pétrole, le gaz et les minerais sont des ressources indispensables pour le bon fonctionnement de nos économies et sont très convoitées. Elles sont ainsi particulièrement propices à l’émergence de...
Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes (L'univers des normes)

Journal Article | 2019
Exchange asymmetries in productive assets: Tools, fertilizer or cash?
Exchange asymmetries in individual decision-making have attracted substantial attention from economists since Thaler (1980) referred to the phenomenon that losses are weighted more heavily than gains as an “endowment effect”...
in World Development vol. 115 pp. 269-278

Report in External Series | 2019
Corruption and Wildlife Crime: A Focus on Caviar Trade
Produced by TRAFFIC, WWF, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (U4 ACRC), Northumbria and Utrecht Universities, "Corruption and wildlife crime: A focus on caviar trade" examines how corruption facilitates the flow of...
Cambridge: TRAFFIC

Book Chapter | 2019
Locating China's Maritime Silk Road in the context of the South China Sea disputes
The South China Sea (SCS) is a bitterly contested maritime battleground for state sovereignty, oil and gas and, perhaps above all, for the marine resources on which large populations of...
in Carmen Amado Mendes: China's New Silk Road: An Emerging World Order. London: Routledge: Taylor&Francis Group pp. 165-179

Report in External Series | 2019
Transforming Pastoralist Mobility in West Darfur: Understanding Continuity and Change
In the Darfur Region of Sudan, patterns of livestock mobility and livelihood systems are continually adapting and transforming themselves in the face of multiple challenges. Earlier studies have shown that...
A Feinstein International Center publication, January 2019

Sudan Working Paper | 2018
Unpleasant homecoming: The predicament of returning pastoralists from South Sudan to Aljabalain Area, White Nile State
In many countries around the world (especially in Africa), the livelihood of pastoralists depends largely on trekking over vast areas of land in constant search of water and pasture for...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2018:1) 20 p.

CMI Report | 2018
Has recent political unrest affected garment exports from Bangladesh?
According to the World Bank, political unrest in Bangladesh in the first part of 2015 resulted in a loss of 1% of GDP.[1] A previous study by UNDP (2005) estimated...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2018:02) 21 p.

Report in External Series | 2017
Nepal: A political economy analysis
This report is an integrated political economy analysis of Nepal. The main finding is that economic growth and poverty reduction have been steady in Nepal since the mid-1980s independently of...
NUPI (Report)

U4 Issue | 2017
Shadow Value Chains: Tracing the link between corruption, illicit activity and lootable natural resources from West Africa
Illicit natural resource trade continues to benefit corrupt officials, criminal and terrorist networks and to divert resources away from development, security and the common good in West Africa. How are...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2017:7) 80 p.

U4 Issue | 2017
Trading in corruption: Evidence and mitigation measures for corruption in the trading of oil and minerals
Between 2011 and 2013, sales of government oil from the ten biggest producers in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 56% of these countries’ total public revenues. Despite their importance, however, such...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2017:6) 52 p.

Journal Article | 2017
Fishermen and Territorial Anxieties in China and Vietnam: Narratives of the South China Sea beyond the Nation Frame
In the geopolitical conflict over the South China Sea (SCS), fishers are at the center of Chinese and Vietnamese cartographic imaginations that define the sea as either “Chinese” or “Vietnamese”...
in Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review vol. 6 no. 1 pp. 20-51

CMI Working Paper | 2017
Policy Making in the Tanzanian Petro State: Building a Statistical Basis
This paper deals with needs and availability of data, statistics and information in Tanzania. It relates to a five-year (2014–19) research programme on prospects and challenges for the petroleum sector.
The...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:5) 53 p.

Journal Article | 2017
Constellations of Power and Authority in the Political Economy of Illegal Timber Extraction in BTAD, Assam
This article seeks to comprehend the way the illegal timber economy in the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Council (BTAD) in Assam is integrated within a constellation of power and authority. Based...
in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political vol. 42 no. 3 pp. 146-165

Book | 2017
Mediatized China-Africa Relations: How Media Discourses Negotiate the Shifting of Global Order
This cutting edge book explores the role of the media in the highly disputed area of China-Africa relations, notably how various aspects of the issue have been portrayed, negotiated and...
Palgrave Macmillan 236 p.