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Sudan Working Paper | 2020
Sudan’s Transition: Living in Bad Surroundings
Following the 2019 April revolution, Sudan now finds itself in the middle of a profound and uncertain political transition. Should the transition succeed, the country could move in directions that...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2020:4) 17 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2020
Comparing legal activism in Zimbabwe and Zambia
Battles over democracy are manifested in contestations over legal frameworks and within judicial institutions. Lawfare refers to the strategic use of law and legal institutions by actors in civil and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2020:5) 30 p.

Sudan Working Paper | 2020
Pastoral Women in Town: The Case of the Migrant Fulbe in Sinja, Sudan
The world has witnessed rapid urbanization and an increased number of women migrating in a phenomenon known as the femininization of migration. Urban areas are becoming extremely overcrowded and overburdened,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2020:3) 48 p.

Sudan Working Paper | 2020
Improved Understanding of FGM/C Abandonment among Sudanese Families in Khartoum and Kassala States
Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is widely practiced in Sudan, where the Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) 2014 in Sudan, showed a prevalence of FGM/C among women and girls ages 15–49...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2020:02)

Sudan Working Paper | 2020
Food Security and Agricultural Development in Sudan: The case of Kassala State
This research discusses the relationship between agricultural development and food security, determinants of supply of (production of food) and demand for (consumption of food) food and determinants of food insecurity...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2020:1)

CMI Working Paper | 2020
Preparing to leave? Household mobility decisions in climate affected areas of coastal Bangladesh
Abstract
We present unique survey data on the migration predictions of 400 households in two extremely climate exposed unions of coastal Bangladesh. We have four main findings. First, despite having prospects...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2020:04) 33 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2020
The UAE’s Humanitarian Diplomacy: Claiming State Sovereignty, Regional Leverage and International Recognition
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) became the world’s third-largest donor of humanitarian aid relative to Gross National Income in 2016. The country was among the top five humanitarian assistance state-donors...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2020:1) 11 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2020
A place-based framework for assessing resettlement capacity in the context of climate change induced displacement
Place-based resettlement capacity assessments to identify potential resettlement places for climate migrants are needed to guide climate change related resettlement programs. The authors propose and validate a conceptual climate change...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2020:3) 46 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2020
How do host–migrant proximities shape attitudes toward internal climate migrants?
Countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa exposed to the environmental consequences of climate change are predicted to see voluntary and forced internal migration on an unprecedented scale in the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2020:2)

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)

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)

CMI Working Paper | 2019
Does changing the narrative improve host community attitudes to climate migrants? Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
A number of studies suggest that our narratives about the situation of the poor and vulnerable affect how we view them and treat them. Theoretically, a potentially powerful way to...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2019:3) 25 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2018
The contemporary nature of tribalism. Anthropological insights on the libyan case
The tribal dimension in many Middle Eastern societies continues to be relevant, however, the significance of tribal belonging has considerably changed. In several contexts, tribes play a political role and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2018:12)

CMI Working Paper | 2018
Most people are not economists: Citizen preferences for corporate taxation
On what bases should corporations be taxed? This article presents evidence from a series of discrete choice experiments designed to elicit the tax preferences of ordinary citizens. We find that...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2018:11)

CMI Working Paper | 2018
Professional Agency in the Ecology of Wrongdoing
This study offers an account of individual agency within a constructivist view of professional wrongdoing. The main contribution is a model in which the neglected role of individual professionals is...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2018:8)

CMI Working Paper | 2018
Building a better world by establishing a Truth Commission: Incomplete healing in El Salvador
On 17 October 1992, as a consultant to the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador, I visited the village of Corinto to collect stories of ‘grave cases of violence’....
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2018:7) 19 p.

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.

CMI Working Paper | 2018
Kinship, Caste and Health: Illness and Treatment in Upland Orissa
This paper investigates whether an individual’s relationship to the head of household and caste are associated with the level of his or her morbidity and, in the event of illness,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2018:6) 35 p.

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.

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.