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CMI Brief | 2016
Violence against women in the context of urban poverty in Angola
Violence against women is widespread in Angola. This brief presents the main findings in a recent study of how violence against women is playing out in the context of urban...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 16) 4 p.

CMI Brief | 2016
Women in Local Government. A Potential Arena for Women’s Substantive Representation
Local government is an important avenue for getting practical experience in participating in politics before moving on to the national arena. Advocates of decentralisation argue that it opens up avenues...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 13) 4 p.

CMI Brief | 2016
The Gatekeepers: Political Participation of Women in Malawi
All over the world, there are gatekeepers with the power to facilitate – or restrict – peoples’ access. We have studied the role of the chairpersons and secretaries of the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 12) 4 p.

Sudan Working Paper | 2016
From a Temporary Emergency Shelter to an Urbanized Neighborhood: The Abu Shoak IDP Camp in North Dārfūr
Introduction
In early 2003, two rebel movements (the Sudanese Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement) launched an insurgency against the rule in Khartoum. Supported by Janjaweed tribal militias, the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2016:3) 14 p.

CMI Brief | 2016
Enforcement of water rights
In 2010, a UN Resolution explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS). But has this international recognition improved the ability of poor and marginalized people to secure...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 9) 4 p.

CMI Insight | 2016
Ending child marriages – new laws bring progress but hurdles remain
Reform of family law is considered among the most difficult to achieve since it contests ‘the notion of women and children as property’. There is a continuum ranging from criminalization...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight no. 4) 8 p.

Edited Book | 2016
Transitional Justice in Latin America: The Uneven Road from Impunity towards Accountability
This is the first book to comprehensively and systematically trace the trajectory from impunity towards accountability for past human rights violations in the Latin American region. Based on rich historical...
London and New York: Routledge (Transitional Justice Series)

CMI Brief | 2016
Non-resource taxation in a resource rich setting: A broader tax base will enhance tax compliance in Tanzania
CMI Brief December 2015 Volume 14 No.08
Huge reservoirs of natural gas have been discovered offshore the southern coast of Tanzania. The country might become a large producer of gas, and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 14 no. 8) 4 p.

Book Chapter | 2016
How much ‘Soft Power’ does China have in Africa?
I have over the past years been intrigued by why Chinese scholars and policy makers have found the term ‘soft power’1 so useful. Can it have something to with its...
in Zhang, Xiaoling, Wasserman, Henry, Mano, Winston : China's media and soft power in Africa: Promotion and perceptions. Palgrave Macmillan pp. 65-78

Journal Article | 2016
Effectiveness of a girls’ empowerment programme on early childbearing, marriage and school dropout among adolescent girls in rural Zambia: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial
Background: Adolescent pregnancies pose a risk to the young mothers and their babies. In Zambia, 35% of young girls in rural areas have given birth by the age of 18...
in Trials vol. 17 no. 588 15 p.

Journal Article | 2016
Scaling up sexuality education in Senegal: integrating family life education into the national curriculum
In Senegal, school-based sexuality education has evolved over 20 years from family life education (FLE) pilot projects into crosscurricular subjects located within the national curriculum of primary and secondary schools....
in Sex Education vol. 17

Journal Article | 2016
Democratic Dynasties? Internal Party Democracy in Bangladesh
First of all, this paper explores the rationale for internal party democracy, highlighting the ‘school for democracy’ argument. Second, it identifies three crucial processes as determinants for the level of...
in Party Politics vol. 22 no. 1 pp. 49-58

CMI Report | 2015
We shall speak where others are silent? Fragments of an oral history of Norwegian assistance to Afghan women
Norway has a strong political commitment to promote the rights of women and their participation in public life through its development cooperation programs. A government White Paper on the subject...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2015:11) 36 p.

Journal Article | 2015
Scaling up of Life Skills Based Education in Pakistan: a case study
Young people between the ages of 10 and 19 make up 23% of Pakistan’s population. In Pakistan, young people face many challenges in terms of sexual and reproductive health (SRH)...
in Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning vol. 15 no. 3 pp. 503-519

Journal Article | 2015
Education and entrepreneurial success
This paper estimates the effect of education on the success of entrepreneurial activity, using survey data from Malawi. An instrument variable approach is used to address the endogeneity of education....
in Small Business Economics vol. 44 no. 4 pp. 783-796

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2015
Fighting corruption in anti-deforestation programmes: The case of REDD+
The protection of tropical forests is a hot topic, particularly in light of the pressing threat of global climate change. The 2014 UN Climate Summit saw a range of national...
The Global Anti-Corruption Blog, Harvard Law School, 6th January 2015

Report in External Series | 2015
Financing education in Afghanistan: Opportunities for action
The Afghan Ministry of Education estimates that there are presently 8.35 million students (39% of which are girls) in primary, lower secondary, and upper secondary government schools, including Islamic schooling,...
Education for development

Journal Article | 2015
Disabled by stereotype? Experimental evidence from Uganda
More than one billion people in the world have some kind of disability. Apart from the obvious physical challenges facing disabled people, there may also be psychological barriers that make...
in Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization vol. 118 pp. 268-280

Journal Article | 2014
Returns to education among entrepreneurs in Bangladesh
This article estimates returns to education among entrepreneurs in Bangladesh, using unique survey data from 2012. Our main instrument for education is the education of the father of the entrepreneur,...
in Journal of Asian Economics vol. 34 pp. 54-65

Journal Article | 2014
Environmental resource collection: implications for children's schooling in Tigray, northern Ethiopia
This paper examines the adverse effect of natural resources scarcity on children's schooling and the possible gender bias of resource collection work against girls' schooling. It uses cross-sectional data on...
in Environment and Development Economics vol. 19 no. 2 pp. 182-200