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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)

Journal Article | 2018
Caretakers` acceptability of different delivery mechanisms of Post-discharge Malaria Chemoprevention (PMC) in Zomba, Southern Malawi A qualitative study under the GLOBVAC funded Post-discharge Malaria Chemoprevention Delivery (PMC) study
In malaria endemic countries of sub-Saharan Africa, many children develop severe anaemia due to previous and current malaria infections. After blood transfusions and antimalarial treatment at the hospital they are...
in BMC Health Services Research vol. 18 no. 544

Sudan Working Paper | 2018
Unpleasant homecoming: The predicament of returning pastoralists from South Sudan to Aljabalain Area, White Nile State
In many countries around the world (especially in Africa), the livelihood of pastoralists depends largely on trekking over vast areas of land in constant search of water and pasture for...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2018:1) 20 p.

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2018
Democracy decaying in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has taken yet another turn on its downwards spiral from democracy to authoritarianism. On 8 February 2018, a Bangladeshi judge convicted opposition leader Khaleda Zia — the nation’s former...
East Asia Forum, 6 March 2018

Report in External Series | 2018
Regulatory Burdens in Tax Administration and Firms’ Compliance Costs in Africa
This paper examines the effect of regulatory burdens related to tax administration on firms' compliance costs in Africa. Using cross-country firm-level data, the results show that regulatory burdens related to...
ICTD

Book | 2018
Manipulating political decentralisation: Africa's Inclusive Autocrats
Can autocrats establish representative subnational governments? And which strategies of manipulation are available if they would like to reduce the uncertainty caused by introducing political decentralisation? In the wake of...
New York: Routledge (Conceptualising Comparative Politics) 176 p.

Sudan Report | 2018
Community Views on Child Marriage in Kassala: Prospects for Change
Child marriage is any formal marriage or informal union where one or both parties are under 18 years of age. Child marriage affects both boys and girls, but disproportionately affects...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Report SR 2018:1)

CMI Report | 2018
Norwegian aid to food security, nutrition and agriculture
The report reviews available research on the links between agriculture and the rest of the economy, with a focus on structural adjustment and the role of agriculture in economic growth...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2018:01) 57 p.

CMI Report | 2017
Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rights
This paper focuses on family law reform in Sudan-a country that has been in a state of perpetual conflict that stretches back long before its independence in 1956. The signing...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2017:5) 28 p.

Sudan Report | 2017
Traditional, but changing, cultural norms: Rural community views on child marriage in Algadaref State, Sudan
This report investigates child marriage in Algadaref State, located in Sudan’s eastern region.
Child marriage is a human rights violation affecting children’s and women’s rights to health, education, equality, non-discrimination,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Report SR 2017:4) 44 p.

Book Chapter | 2017
With a little help from the banks
Africa is a source of large-scale capital flight. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on how banks facilitate capital flight from Africa. There is growing evidence that...
in Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Sigrid Klæboe Jacobsen, Peter Ringstad and Honest Prosper Ngowi : Lifting the veil of secrecy: Perspectives on international taxation and capital flight from Africa. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute pp. 90-92

Book Chapter | 2017
The rise and fall of the mining royalty regime in Zambia
Zambia has a long history of disputed changes of the mining tax regime with damaging effects on the working relations between the Government and the mining sector. A shared assumption...
in Fjeldstad, Sigrid Klæboe Jacobsen, Peter Ringstad and Honest Prosper Ngowi : Lifting the veil of secrecy: Perspectives on international taxation and capital flight from Africa. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute pp. 120-124

Book Chapter | 2017
Capital flight, tax policy and lobbyists in Africa
This article examines how the use of tax havens affects tax moral and lobbying, and how tax havens form elites’ and other actors’ incentives to block or promote tax reforms in...
in Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Sigrid Klæboe Jacobsen, Peter Ringstad and Honest Prosper Ngowi : Lifting the veil of secrecy: Perspectives on international taxation and capital flight from Africa. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute pp. 93-96

Edited Book | 2017
Lifting the veil of secrecy: Perspectives on international taxation and capital flight from Africa
Several African countries are among the fastest growing economies in the world. However, capital flows to tax havens are one factor limiting the benefits of economic growth for ordinary Africans....
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute

CMI Brief | 2017
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. Why does counter-mobilization arise in...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 8) 4 p.

Journal Article | 2017
The Southern Transitional Council: Implications for Yemen's Peace Process
Analysis of the creation of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in South Yemen based on predominantly Arabic-language sources, and an assessment of potential impact on Yemen's peace process.
in Middle East Policy vol. 24 no. 3 pp. 133-144

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.

Sudan Report | 2017
Girls, Child Marriage, and Education in Red Sea State, Sudan: Perspectives on Girls’ Freedom to Choose
Child marriage is any formal marriage or informal union where one or both parties are under 18 years of age. Child marriage affects both boys and girls, but disproportionately affects...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Report SR 2017:3) 67 p.

Sudan Report | 2017
Human Smuggling and Trafficking in Eastern Sudan
Sudan has long been a hub for individuals from the Horn of Africa on their way to north Africa, Europe, and beyond, and this has only increased in recent years....
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Report SR 2017:2) 94 p.

Journal Article | 2017
Toward a Comprehensive Solution? Yemen's Two-Year Peace Process
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to intervene against the expanding threat of the Huthi insurgency in March 2015, the confiict in Yemen has left more than 7,500 killed and another 18.8...
Forster, R. (2017). Toward a Comprehensive Solution? Yemen's Two-Year Peace Process. The Middle East Journal 71(3), 479-488. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/666508.