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CMI Working Paper | 2019
Managing the born-free generation: Zimbabwe’s strategies for dealing with the youth
A rich literature on Africa’s autocratic and repressive regimes has discussed the diverse strategies through which these regimes seek to consolidate and stay in power. Prominent strategies include election rigging,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2019:02)

U4 Issue | 2019
Social accountability and water integrity: Learning from experiences with participatory and transparent budgeting in Ethiopia and Nepal
Experiences with social accountability measures in water management schemes in Nepal and Ethiopia offer useful lessons for practitioners. Participation and transparency in budgeting measures open up new spaces for deliberation,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2019:11)

CMI Working Paper | 2019
Crop market participation among smallholder farmers in Tanzania
This paper assesses determinants of crop market participation among smallholder farmers in Tanzania, with a focus on transaction cost, asset endowment and cooperatives. The study is based on household survey...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2010:1)

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

Journal Article | 2019
Colonial legacy, state building and the salience of ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa
African colonial history suggests that British colonial rule may have undermined state centralisation due to legacies of ethnic segregation and stronger executive constraints. Using micro-data from anglophone and francophone countries...
in The Economic Journal vol. 129 no. 617 pp. 1048-1081

Journal Article | 2019
Ethnically Biased? Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Ethnicity has been shown to shape political, social, and economic behavior in Africa, but the underlying mechanisms remain contested. We utilize lab experiments to isolate one mechanism—an individual's bias in...
in Journal of the European Economic Association vol. 18 no. 1

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

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
Maputo: Ethnography of a Divided City
Rapid urbanisation is one of the most dramatic developments on the African continent, often yielding contrasting and shocking images of affluent businesses and residential districts alongside sprawling shantytowns or slums....
in Journal of Anthropological Films vol. 2 no. 2

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

Journal Article | 2018
Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in Africa
Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional institutions enjoy constitutional authority. To explore differences between states...
in Political Studies, first published online: December 1, 2017 vol. 66 no. 4 pp. 851-868

Journal Article | 2018
Delivery strategies for malaria chemoprevention with monthly dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for the post-discharge management of severe anaemia in children aged less than 5 years old in Malawi: a protocol for a cluster randomized trial
Background Children initially hospitalized with severe anaemia in Africa are at high risk of readmission or death within 6 months after discharge. No intervention strategy specifically protects children during the...
in BMC Pediatrics vol. 18:238 pp. 1-8
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Newspaper Op-Ed | 2018
Besteuerung und Kapitalflucht aus Afrika: Die Steuervermeidungsindustrie [The tax avoidance industry: facilitators of capital flight from Africa]
To combat the global problems of tax evasion, corruption and money laundering, it is vital to understand the essential role tax havens play as providers of secrecy. This requires knowledge...
Afrika-bulletin 171 Entwicklungspolitische Zeitschrift des Afrika-Komitees Basel Sept/Okt 2018

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.

U4 Issue | 2018
Capacity building for the Nigerian Navy: Eyes wide shut on corruption?
Pervasive corruption in the Nigerian maritime security sector facilitates smuggling, piracy and oil theft. Building capacity while ignoring corruption risks making corruption and related crimes worse. The United States Africa...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2018:4)

CMI Brief | 2018
Family law reform in Sudan: A never ending story?
The family law in Sudan, legalises child marriage, stipulates a wife’s obedience to her husband, and gives the male guardian veto power on women’s consent to marriage. #JusticeforNoura has shone...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2018:08) 6 p.

CMI Brief | 2018
An increasing number of Muslim women in politics: A step towards complementarity, not equality
The number of Muslim women participating in political decision-making in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) is on the rise. This brief explores how Islamists in Sudan have interpreted...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2018:3) 6 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 Insight | 2018
Breaking BAD: Understanding Backlash Against Democracy in Africa
There is a trend of democratic retrenchment across the African continent. Despite democratic gains in some states, the overall tendency over the past decade has been the erosion of democratic...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2018:3)