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Sudan Working Paper | 2020
Pastoral Women in Town: The Case of the Migrant Fulbe in Sinja, Sudan
The world has witnessed rapid urbanization and an increased number of women migrating in a phenomenon known as the femininization of migration. Urban areas are becoming extremely overcrowded and overburdened,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2020:3) 48 p.

CMI Brief | 2020
Impacts of school closures on children in developing countries: Can we learn something from the past?
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2020:05) 5 p.

U4 Issue | 2020
Values education for public integrity. What works and what doesn’t
Schools and universities in various countries are teaching youth about integrity norms and values. Despite limited evidence on effectiveness, some good practices and lessons learned have emerged. Development partners, multilateral...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2020:8)

Journal Article | 2020
Acceptability of youth clubs focusing on comprehensive sexual and reproductive health education in rural Zambian schools: a case of Central Province
in BMC Health Services Research vol. 20 no. 1 pp. -

Journal Article | 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

Journal Article | 2019
Adolescent pregnancy and social norms in Zambia
Early pregnancy occurs frequently in Zambia and is considered a public health issue. The aim of this study was to improve understanding of how gendered sexual norms make young unmarried...
in Culture, Health & Sexuality

Book Chapter | 2019
Prophets and Profits: The Jordanian Government; Strategies for Defining and Containing Risk In Volatile Times
in Erica L. James: Governing Gifts: Faith, Charity, and the Security State (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series). University of New Mexico Press pp. 161-180

Book | 2018
Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development
It has long been debated whether Africa's lack of growth is best explained by the continent's exploitation by the global system, or by internal failures of domestic political leadership, and...
London/New York: Zed Books (African Arguments Book Series,) 216 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2018
Professional Agency in the Ecology of Wrongdoing
This study offers an account of individual agency within a constructivist view of professional wrongdoing. The main contribution is a model in which the neglected role of individual professionals is...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2018:8)

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.

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2018
The ruins of Bangladesh’s LGBT community
What was once a fledgling lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka is now destroyed. In 2014 and 2015 the Bangladeshi gay scene was...
East Asia Forum, Australia 23.03.2018

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2018
Democracy decaying in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has taken yet another turn on its downwards spiral from democracy to authoritarianism. On 8 February 2018, a Bangladeshi judge convicted opposition leader Khaleda Zia — the nation’s former...
East Asia Forum, 6 March 2018

Journal Article | 2017
Political determinants of sustainable development goals
We read with interest the article by the GBD 2016 SDG Collaborators1 (Sept 16, p 1423), which presents a comprehensive analysis of the potential gaps and gains in the health-related Sustainable...
in The Lancet vol. 390 no. 10112 pp. 2545-2546

CMI Brief | 2017
What causes Latin America’s high incidence of adolescent pregnancy?
Latin America is the only region in the world where adolescent pregnancies are not decreasing. According to a recent article in the Lancet, if the current trend continues, Latin American...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 9) 4 p.

Report in External Series | 2017
Country Evaluation Brief: Malawi
Malawi is one of the world's least developed countries, with a poverty rate that is consistently high compared to other countries in sub-Saharan Africa and declining at a slower pace.
The...
Norad Country Evaluation Brief

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 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.

Journal Article | 2017
Son preference, number of children, education and occupational choice in rural Nepal
A unique family survey was conducted in Nepal to investigate the economic consequences of having a first-born girl. Women have more children, but we find no causal effect of number...
in Review of Development Economics. 21(1): 1-20

CMI Brief | 2016
Marginalisation and Poverty in Rural Malanje, Angola
Rural Angola has gone through decades of hardships with war and economic marginalisation – culminating with the current economic crisis. This brief is about ten rural communities in the province...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 18) 4 p.

Report in External Series | 2016
Country Evaluation Brief: Afghanistan
Since 2001, Western political and military interests have largely defined the nature and magnitude of aid flows. Conventional criteria for development assistance (notably absorptive capacity and credible conditionality) were, as...
Oslo: Norad (Country Evaluation Briefs no. 7) 38 p.