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CMI Insight | 2020
Women Judges in Afghanistan: An Interview with Anisa Rasooli
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2020:04) 5 p.

CMI Insight | 2020
Guerra no Norte de Moçambique, uma Região Rica em Recursos Naturais – Seis Cenários
Desde os ataques de Outubro de 2017 em Mocímboa da Praia, realizados por alegados insurgentes islamistas, vulgarmente referidos como Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama e localmente conhecidos como Al Shabab, não é...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2020:3) 18 p.

CMI Insight | 2020
War in resource-rich northern Mozambique – Six scenarios
Since the October 2017 attacks by alleged Islamist insurgents, commonly referred to as Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama and locally know as Al Shabab, on Mocimboa da Praia, it has not been...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2020:02) 18 p.

CMI Insight | 2020
The changing role of Chinese development aid
In recent years, China has significantly increased its development interventions. China is now among the major providers of aid to Africa. Foreign aid has become an important tool in the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2020:1) 8 p.

CMI Insight | 2019
Zambia’s looming debt crisis – is China to blame?
Is China pressuring poor countries with debt? Debt trap diplomacy is a recent term that is used to describe Chinese loans for infrastructure and development in developing countries. Zambia is...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2019:01)

CMI Insight | 2018
Property owners’ knowledge and attitudes towards property taxation in Tanzania
Property taxation (PT) is high on the political agenda in Tanzania and considered a cornerstone of the Government’s efforts to strengthen broad based direct taxation. Because it is visible to...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2018:01) 12 p.

CMI Insight | 2018
Missing from the picture: Men imprisoned for ‘moral crimes’ in Afghanistan
Recent years have seen sustained focus on the prosecution of Afghan women and girls for ‘moral crimes’ such as adultery and ‘running away’. However, many Afghan men are also charged...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2018:2) 4 p.

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)

CMI Insight | 2017
Taxing the urban boom in Tanzania: Central versus local government property tax collection
Effective collection of property taxes requires constructive working relations between the central government revenue authority and the municipalities, independent of the mode of administration. Clear division of function and responsibility...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2017:3) 8 p.

CMI Insight | 2017
Gender parity in Senegal – A continuing struggle
In 2010, the Senegalese women’s movement, supported by political elites and international norms, managed to push for the adoption of one of the world’s most radical gender quota laws to...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight no. 2) 8 p.

CMI Insight | 2017
Taxing the urban boom: property taxation in Africa
The growth of Africa’s towns and cities has outpaced local governments’ capacity for service delivery in terms of management, infrastructure, and financing. As a result, many African towns and cities...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight no. 1) 8 p.

CMI Insight | 2016
Illicit Flows and Trade Misinvoicing: Are we looking under the wrong lamppost?
Illicit financial flows (IFFs) have become a high profile issue in recent years. The Sustainable Development Goals include a target (16.4: significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows, strengthen the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight no. 5) 8 p.

CMI Insight | 2016
Comment to CMI insight number 5: Illicit Flows and Trade Misinvoicing: Are we looking under the wrong lamppost?
This is a comment to the CMI Insight number 5, published November 2016. The Insight can be found here.
Comment byMatthew Salomon, 12 October 2016 Senior Economist, Global Financial Integrity
Broad response
Noting...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight no. 5) 2 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.

CMI Insight | 2016
The Sudan Armed Forces and Prospects of Change
The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) has a long history of siding with civil protestors in times of national political crisis. In recent years, waves of popular protests, often called the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight no. 2016:3) 9 p.

CMI Insight | 2016
See you in court! Holding the military to account in Latin America
The courtroom has become an increasingly common meeting place for retired military officials, and victims and their families who have suffered various forms of abuse at the hands of the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight no. 2)

CMI Insight | 2016
Criminalizing Female Genital Mutilation in Sudan: A never ending story?
Women inside and outside of the Sudanese government were deeply concerned about the high prevalence rates of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) after decades of efforts to eradicate the practice. Criminalization...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2016 no.1) 6 p.

CMI Insight | 2015
The eternal conflict: Land, peasants, and the military in Mexico
Land has always been an important site of struggle in Mexico, often bringing peasant movements and peasant communities into conflicts with the Mexican military. This CMI Insight focuses on the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight no. 2015:3) 4 p.

CMI Insight | 2015
Women’s Right to Abortion after Rape in Sudan
In 1991, Sudan’s Islamist regime expanded the circumstances under which abortions are permitted within 90 days of conception, to include rape. This reform has received great attention, especially given the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight no. 2) 7 p.

CMI Insight | 2015
A Hawk in Dove’s Feathers: Colombian Civil-Military Relations Under Santos
Colombian president Juan Manual Santos has claimed a new approach to security politics in the violence-ridden South American nation. This Insight reviews Santos’ approach to civil military relations, and suggests...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2015 no. 1) 8 p.