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Book Chapter | 2014
Configuring a Threatening Other: Historical Narratives in Chinese School Textbooks
The historical narratives about Japan in the Chinese school textbooks, especially those of today, contributed to the construction of a common understanding about the formation of China as a modern...
in Thomas A. Hollihan: The Dispute Over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands. How Media Narratives Shape Public Opinion and Challenge the Global Order. Palgrave Macmillan

Journal Article | 2014
Using incentives to attract nurses to remote areas of Tanzania: a contingent valuation study
This article analyses (1) how financial incentives (salary top-ups) and non-financial incentives (housing and education) affect nurses’ willingness to work in remote areas of Tanzania and (2) how the magnitude...
in Health Policy and Planning vol. 29 no. 2 pp. 227-236

CMI Brief | 2013
Dynasty or democracy? Party politics in Bangladesh
The two major political parties in Bangladesh are dynastic, like other well-known parties in South Asia. Political dynasty means a prominent political family runs the party. This restricts the level...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 12 no. 6) 4 p.

Book Chapter | 2013
Transparency in U.S. Higher Education Job Placement Data
The Article looks at transparency in job placement data published by U.S. universities, with a particular focus on law schools and for-profit schools. The article argues that given the high...
2013 Global Corruption Report - Education. Berlin: Transparency International

Journal Article | 2013
Is it both what you know and who you know? Human capital, social capital and entrepreneurial success
This paper analyzes the importance of human and social capital for entrepreneurial success, using survey data of 459 urban entrepreneurs in Luanda, Angola. The paper offers four main findings: i)...
in Journal of International Development vol. 25 no. 5 pp. 626-639

Edited Book | 2012
Lebanon After the Cedar Revolution
A comprehensive look at contemporary Lebanon and the ongoing attempts by Israel, Syria and Iran to influence its domestic affairs.
Lebanon is the prisoner of its geography and its history, a...
London: Hurst 323 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2012
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 get more children, but we find no causal effect of number...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2012:8) 26 p.

Report in External Series | 2012
Hunting for Per Diem: The Uses and Abuses of Travel Compensation in Three Developing Countries
Cash is a great incentive. The last decade has seen a boom in various forms of cash incentive programmes, from the conditional cash transfer programmes that emerged in Latin America...
Norad no. Report 2/2012 Study 122 p.

Edited Book | 2011
Litigating health rights. Can courts bring more justice to health?
The last fifteen years have seen a tremendous growth in the number of health rights cases focusing on issues such as access to health services and essential medications. This volume...
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press (Human Rights Program Series. Harvard Law School) 435 p.

Angola Brief | 2011
Public construction projects - Angola. A need to fortify the barriers against corruption
Between early 2002 and 2009 the Angolan government invested around $30.4 billion in new infrastructure, hospitals, schools and other public construction projects. These investments have been extraordinarily large against the backdrop of...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Angola Brief vol. 1 no. 5) 4 p.

Report in External Series | 2011
Supporting child rights. Synthesis of lessons learned in four countries
This evaluation was commissioned jointly by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) with the dual purpose of: (a) summarising results achieved...
Stockholm: Sida (Joint Evaluation no. 2011:1) 258 p.

U4 Brief | 2011
Understanding success and failure of anti-corruption initiatives
Most anti-corruption initiatives fail. This Brief sets out to understand why that is, and what might be done about it. Anti-corruption initiatives fail because of over-large “design-reality gaps”; that is, too great...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2011:2) 4 p.

Report in External Series | 2011
Supporting child rights: Synthesis of lessons learned in four countries
This evaluation was commissioned jointly by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) with the dual purpose of: (a) summarising results achieved...
(Available from Sida)

Master's Thesis | 2011
Small Hands Should Play, Not Work: A Theoretical Analysis of Interventions in Child Labor
Twelve hours a day, 7 days a week, there are 150 million children below the age of 15 working to make the clothes we wear, the carpets on our floors...
Master in Economics. Bergen: University of Bergen 102 p.

Book | 2010
The legal foundations of inequality. Constitutionalism in the Americas 1776-1860
The long revolutionary movements that gave birth to constitutional democracies in the Americas were founded on egalitarian constitutional ideals. They claimed that all men were created equal and with similar...
New York: Cambridge Univ. Press 273 p.

Journal Article | 2010
Wrong schools or wrong students? The potential role of medical education in regional imbalances of the health workforce in the United Republic of Tanzania
Background
The United Republic of Tanzania, like many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, faces a human resources crisis in its health sector, with a small and inequitably distributed health workforce. Rural...
in Human Resources for Health vol. 8 no. 3

Journal Article | 2009
Preventable maternal death: a violation of women's rights
More than one woman dies every minute from preventable causes in childbirth, and for every woman who dies as many as 30 others are left with lifelong, debilitating complications. Moreover,...
in Health and Human Rights

CMI Report | 2009
Statistical evidence on social and economic exclusion in Nepal
The discourse on social exclusion in Nepal is very ideological, with some authors considering basically all Nepalis as socially excluded except for male Bahuns of hill origin. This is obviously...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2009: 15) 54 p.

CMI Report | 2008
"Making Elections is like Preparing "Funge: If you don't do it Right it goes Puiti-Puiti".
This report is the end review of Development Workshop's Programme for Civic and Electoral Education in Angola, 2005-8 (PECE 1, Programa de Educação Cívica e Eleitoral). Its precursor, the "peace...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2008: 11) 36 p.

U4 Brief | 2008
The Power of Data: Enhancing Transparency in the Education Sector in Sierra Leone
The best defence against malfeasance are reliable facts and figures. An effectively functioning Education Management Information System can highlight malpractices related to anything from local record keeping, teacher salaries, building...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2008:22) 4 p.