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Journal Article | Nov 2019
Acceptability of an economic support component to reduce early pregnancy and school dropout in Zambia: a qualitative case study
Background: Cash Transfer (CT) schemes have become popular poverty reducing measures in many low and middle-income countries. Research indicates that when provided to girls in resource poor settings, cash transfers...
in Global Health Action vol. 12 no. 1

Book Chapter | Nov 2019
Extractive and Power-Preserving Political Corruption
This introductory chapter outlines the distinctions between, on the one hand, political and bureaucratic corruption, and, on the other hand, between extractive and power-preserving corruption. It is argued that the...
in Inge Amundsen (ed.): Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishers Ltd.

Journal Article | Jul 2019
Will REDD+ safeguards mitigate corruption? Qualitative evidence from Southeast Asia
High levels of faith and finance have been invested in REDD+ as a promising global climate change mitigation policy. Since its inception in 2007, corruption has been viewed as a...
in The Journal of Development Studies

Journal Article | May 2019
Factors influencing the use of reproductive health care services among married adolescent girls in Dang District, Nepal: a qualitative study
Background: Child marriage is associated with adverse reproductive health outcomes, and the practice is still alarmingly common. Together with efforts to end child marriage, it is essential to provide adequate...
in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth vol. 19 no. 152

Book Chapter | Jan 2019
Introduction: Implementing Child Rights
The UN Convention for the Rights of the Child (CRC) has emerged as a central yardstick in assessing policies and practices concerning children. Norway has incorporated the convention in domestic...
in Malcolm Langford , Marit Skivenes and Karl Harald Søvig (eds.): Children's Rights in Norway An Implementation Paradox?. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget pp. 15-41

Book | Jan 2019
Children's Rights in Norway
Norway tops international indexes on children’s rights but continues to attract criticism for its level of compliance with the Convention of the Rights of Child. This book is the first...
Children's Rights in Norway: An Implementation Paradox?, Universitetsforlaget

Journal Article | Jan 2019
What does it mean to be poor? Investigating the qualitative-quantitative divide in Mozambique
Motivated by the siloed nature of much poverty research, as well as the challenge of finding inclusive operational definitions of poverty, this study reflects on the merits of seeking to...
in World Development vol. 117 pp. 153-166

Journal Article | 2018
Introducing post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) for management of severe anemia in Malawian children: a qualitative study of community health workers’ perceptions and motivation
Background
Severe malarial anaemia is one of the leading causes of paediatric hospital admissions in Malawi. Post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) is the intermittent administration of full treatment courses of antimalarial to...
in BMC Health Services Research vol. 18 no. 984 pp. 1-15

Journal Article | 2018
On the way to good health? Rural roads and morbidity in Upland Orissa
This paper investigates the effects of India's rural roads programme (PMGSY) on morbidity, using data on 279 households drawn from 30 villages in upland Orissa. The households were surveyed in...
in Journal of Transport & Health vol. 10 no. September pp. 369-380

Master's Thesis | 2018
Safeguarding borders, or safeguarding queers?
While the political field of immigration is getting increasingly stringent throughout Europe, rights for queer individuals are progressively strengthened in Western parts of the world.
These two parallel trends have made...
Paris: CNRS-CERI Sciences Po 99 p.

Report in External Series | 2018
What does it mean t be poor? Investigating the qualitative-quantitative divide in Mozambique
This study reflects on the relationship between economic (quantitative) and anthropological (qualitative) approaches to the analysis of poverty in developing countries. Drawing on detailed evidence from Mozambique, we argue that...
Helsinki: UNU-WIDER (WIDER Working Paper no. 2018/75) 25 p.

CMI Report | 2018
The gendering of poverty and inequality in rural Malanje, Angola
This report is concerned with analyzing the gendered dimensions of rural poverty, based on qualitative and quantitative research in the rural municipality of Kalandula in the northeastern province of Malanje,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2018:10) 42 p.

Journal Article | 2018
Caretakers` acceptability of different delivery mechanisms of Post-discharge Malaria Chemoprevention (PMC) in Zomba, Southern Malawi A qualitative study under the GLOBVAC funded Post-discharge Malaria Chemoprevention Delivery (PMC) study
In malaria endemic countries of sub-Saharan Africa, many children develop severe anaemia due to previous and current malaria infections. After blood transfusions and antimalarial treatment at the hospital they are...
in BMC Health Services Research vol. 18 no. 544

CMI Report | 2018
Life skills in non-formal contexts for adolescent girls in developing countries
Executive summary
How can young women in developing countries best be prepared for success in their lives and livelihoods? Life preparation requires learning different types of knowledge and skills in formal,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2018:5) 115 p.

Book | 2018
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American women wearing the headscarf (hijab) in a non-Muslim state. The...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press 264 p.

Journal Article | 2017
Alternatives to local content
This paper discusses whether and to what extent resource-rich developing countries should introduce local content policies, i.e. requirements to include local inputs in petroleum extraction activities of multinational corporations. We...
in Oxford Development Studies

U4 Brief | 2017
Proxy indicators for the corrupt misuse of corporations
Winners of the U4 Proxy Challenge 2016
We need more imaginative ways of addressing corruption. It is important to generate indicators that development agencies can use. U4 and DFID developed a...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2017:6)

Journal Article | 2017
Covering ebola: A comparative analysis of CCTV Africa’s Talk Africa and Al Jazeera English’s Inside Story
This article presents a comparative analysis of how Chinese Central Television (CCTV) Africa and Al Jazeera English’s current affairs talk shows, both in English, have covered the 2014-2015 West Africa...
in Journal of African Cultural Studies vol. 29 no. 1 pp. 114-130

CMI Report | 2017
Rural poverty in Malanje, Angola
This report is part of the research programme “Cooperation on Research and Development in Angola” between Centro de Estudos e Investigação Científica (CEIC) at the Catholic University in Luanda, Angola...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2017:1) 36 p.

CMI Brief | 2017
Perpetual Hardships: Female Poverty in Rural Malanje, Angola
Rural poverty in Angola is severe and gendered. This brief draws on qualitative field research in ten rural communities in the municipality of Kalandula, Malanje province. It shows that female...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 4) 4 p.