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Journal Article | 2020
Legal Reform or Erasure of History? The Politics of Moral Crimes in Afghanistan
in Central Asian Survey

U4 Practitioner Experience Note | 2020
Twenty years with anti-corruption. Part 10. Keeping the vision alive: new methods, new ambitions
The last 20 years has seen a solid international architecture established to fight corruption. However, the pace of progress has slowed in recent years. Two critical problems are that the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Practitioner Experience Note 2020:10)

CMI Brief | 2020
UN Security Council Resolution 1325: Peacebuilding in Africa 20 years after its adoption
20 years ago the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1325. The resolution underscored the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and called for their...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2020:08) 6 p.

Journal Article | 2020
Armed governance: the case of the CIA-supported Afghan militias
This article examines the genealogy and behavior of the CIA militias in Afghanistan against the backdrop of persistent armed governance whereby a plurality of actors competes over control and rule....
in Small Wars and Insurgency

Edited Book | 2019
Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation
Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different social phenomena in a way that is often overlooked in...
Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishers Ltd. c 200 p.

Report in External Series | 2019
The “CIA’s Army”: A Threat to Human Rights and an Obstacle to Peace in Afghanistan
Afghan paramilitary forces working with the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have long been a staple in the US war on terrorism in Afghanistan and the border region with...
Providence: The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University (Costs of War) 14 p.

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

CMI Insight | 2019
Zambia’s looming debt crisis – is China to blame?
Is China pressuring poor countries with debt? Debt trap diplomacy is a recent term that is used to describe Chinese loans for infrastructure and development in developing countries. Zambia is...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2019:01)

Journal Article | 2019
Candidate selection and informal soft quotas for women: gender imbalance in political recruitment in Zambia
in Politics, Groups, & Identities (Published online 03 Jan 2019)

Journal Article | 2019
Active private sector development policies revisited: Impacts of the Ethiopian industrial cluster policy
We analyze impacts of a cluster policy aiming to increase firm growth through maximizing agglomeration benefits and improving production facilities. Firms located in a natural cluster were incentivized to move...
in Journal of Development Studies vol. 55 no. 7 pp. 1548-1564

Journal Article | 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 pp. 1-9

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2019
Europas nye grensevakter
Er vi med på å støtte en utvikling som sender enda flere flyktninger til Europa?
Gunnar Sørbø, in Bergens Tidende, 05.05.19
Over en million migranter krysset Middelhavet under flyktningkrisen i 2015. 850,000 av...
Bergens Tidende 05.05.19

Book Chapter | 2019
The ‘Secret Loans Affair’ and Political Corruption in Mozambique
In 2016, the ‘secret loans affair’ sprung on to the Mozambican political scene with the discovery that three government-owned companies – controlled by the military intelligence – had borrowed around...
in Inge Amundsen (ed.): Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishers Ltd.

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2019
Seksualitetsundervisning i motbakke
Det er prisverdig at Norges nye utviklingsminister framhever at å sikre jenter utdanning i afrikanske land ikke bare handler om at de skal komme seg til en skole, men også...
Bistandsaktuelt 28.02.19

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

Journal Article | 2019
The political economy of banking in Angola
From inauspicious beginnings in a post-socialist, highly dysfunctionalfinancial system, Angolan banking grew in less than a decade after theend of the country's long civil war into one of Africa's largest....
in African Affairs vol. 118 no. 470 pp. 49-74

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

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2018
Bankranet i Mosambik
Mosambiks president Filipe Nyusi er i disse dager på offisielt besøk til Norge. Det er grunn til å bruke dette besøket til å rette søkelyset mot bekymringsfulle politiske og økonomiske...
afrika.no 15.11.2018

U4 Brief | 2018
The Mozambique hidden loans case: An opportunity for donors to demonstrate anti-corruption commitment
When the Mozambican government issued guarantees for over 1 billion US$ - ignoring their own oversight mechanisms and lending rules - they ended up in public debt distress. Donors have...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2018:6)

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.