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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)

CMI Working Paper | 2020
How do host–migrant proximities shape attitudes toward internal climate migrants?
Countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa exposed to the environmental consequences of climate change are predicted to see voluntary and forced internal migration on an unprecedented scale in the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2020:2)

Journal Article | 2020
The Customer is King: Evidence on VAT Compliance in Tanzania
Value Added Tax (VAT) has emerged as one of the main modes of raising tax revenue worldwide, but has significantly underperformed as a revenue source in African countries. To improve...
in World Development vol. 128

U4 Brief | 2019
Towards cities of integrity: The role of urban planners
Getting urbanisation right is a prerequisite for human development and environmental sustainability. Yet, corruption risks in urbanisation abound and threaten to stymie ambitions for a prosperous, inclusive, resilient urban future....
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2019:4)

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.

CMI Brief | 2019
Cursed before production?
Big discoveries of high value natural resources can have negative economic, political, and social effects long before full production of a resource begins. While Tanzania has already experienced some tensions...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2019:01) 4 p.

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

Journal Article | 2019
Public Anthropology in Changing Times
Public anthropology is a collective aspiration shaped by generally shared values and intentions within significant sections of social and cultural anthropology. The impetus behind the creation of the journal Public...
in Public Anthropologist vol. 1 no. 1

Report in External Series | 2018
The Customer is King: Evidence on VAT Compliance in Tanzania
Like governments in many other African countries, the Government of Tanzania has been striving to improve the effectiveness of its value added tax (VAT) regime by reducing tax evasion through...
Brighton: International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) (ICTD Working Paper no. 83) 28 p.

Commissioned Report | 2018
Midterm Evaluation of NPA-Cambodia Office's Development Programme
This report presents the findings, conclusion and recommendations of a mid-term evaluation of Norwegian People's Aid's (NPA) development programme in Cambodia. The programme support local partners in their efforts to...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Unpublished report) pp. 1-44 (Coimmissioned report with limited circulation)

CMI Report | 2018
Can Smallholders benefit from the new market opportunities from the extractive industry in Tanzania?
The recent discovery of huge oil and gas reserves in Tanzania has created a new opportunity for economic growth and development of the country. Tanzania is expected to be one...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2018:8) 38 p.

Journal Article | 2018
"It's all about money": Urban-rural spaces and relations in Maputo, Mozambique
Within the anthropological urban scholarship on sub-Saharan Africa, there is a shared notion of the continued, and in some cases reemerging, importance of rural spaces, values and relations in cities...
in Canadian Journal of African Studies

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.

Journal Article | 2018
Do donors reduce bilateral aid to countries with restrictive NGO laws?: A panel study, 1993-2012
Foreign aid contributes to about 10% of gross domestic product of developing countries. To distribute aid in recipient countries, Western donors increasingly rely on non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Yet, since the...
in Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly vol. 47 no. 1 pp. 89-106

Report in External Series | 2018
Evaluation of the Norwegian Aid Administration’s Practice of Results-Based Management
The purpose of this evaluation has been to improve the aid administration’s current practice of results-based management by documenting how this is currently done and by identifying areas of improvement.
Key findings are:
- Despite the...
Oslo: Norad no. 4/2018 79 p.

CMI Brief | 2017
Petroleum populism: How new resource endowments shape voter choices
High-value natural resources can be a political “curse” when political elites use resource revenues to maintain power, subvert democratic rule, and distribute public goods to their supporters. New resource discoveries...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 11) 4 p.

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.

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)

CMI Brief | 2017
Paper tiger law forbidding FGM in Sudan
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still a common practice in Sudan. Nine out of ten women have been subjected to this practice.
In 2009, a proposed ban on FGM in the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 7) 4 p.

Edited Book | 2017
Civil-military relations in Lebanon: Conflict, cohesion and confessionalism in a divided society
First book to examine civil-military relations in post-Arab Spring Lebanon
This volume examines Lebanon’s post-2011 security dilemmas and the tenuous civil-military relations. The Syrian civil war has strained the Lebanese Armed...
Palgrave Macmillan 155 p.