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CMI Working Paper | 2018
Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania
Corruption appears to be an important driver of the resource curse in developing countries. We report from a large-scale field experiment in Tanzania that provides causal evidence on how expectations...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2018:5) 61 p.

Report in External Series | 2018
How do voters respond to information on self-serving elite behaviour? Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Tanzania
Helsinki: UNU-WIDER (WIDER Working Paper no. 11/2018)

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 Working Paper | 2018
Policy implementation under stress: Central-local government relations in property tax collection in Tanzania
Inter-organisational cooperation in revenue collection has received limited attention in the tax administration literature. Recent experiences from Tanzania offer a unique opportunity to examine opportunities and challenges facing such cooperation...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2018:1) 27 p.

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.

Journal Article | 2018
Understanding the lie of the land: an institutional analysis of petro-governance in Tanzania
Tanzania has recently discovered large petroleum and natural gas reserves, boosting its natural resource stocks and potential future revenue flows. Whether the country’s petroleum resources will translate into economic development...
in Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law vol. 36 no. 1 pp. 85-101

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.

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
Prospects for peace in a petro-state: Gas extraction and participation in violence in Tanzania
Significant petroleum discoveries in Tanzania have shaped the country’s political discourse in recent years, with politicians promising to turn this newfound resource wealth into rapid economic growth and poverty reduction....
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 10) 4 p.

Journal Article | 2017
Alternatives to local content
This paper discusses whether and to what extent resource-rich developing countries should introduce local content policies, i.e. requirements to include local inputs in petroleum extraction activities of multinational corporations. We...
in Oxford Development Studies

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.

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.

CMI Brief | 2017
Local Content in Tanzania’s Gas and Minerals Sectors: Who regulates?
The implementation of Tanzania’s local content policy for the petroleum and mineral sectors has been hampered by inconsistency, confusion, and un-coordinated donor interventions. There is a need to replace overlapping...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 6) 4 p.