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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.

CMI Working Paper | 2017
Adultery, rape, and escaping the house: The protection and policing of female sexuality in Afghanistan
This working paper undertakes an initial survey of the dynamics through which the criminalization of female sexuality structures women’s access to protection against rape in Afghanistan, examining both legislation and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:9) 16 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2017
Protected tax havens: Cornering the market through international reform?
Since the year 2000, an international reform process has been underway to reduce the negative impacts of tax havens. This paper analyzes whether the reform period has favoured protected tax...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:7) 15 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2017
The Criminalisation of Rape in Pakistan
In Pakistan, the legal recognition of rape as a crime has changed in pace with the dominant narrative on women’s sexuality. The country’s most troublesome categorisation of rape was, unfortunately,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:08) 24 p.

Sudan Working Paper | 2017
Compensatory Livestock Thievery: A New Trend in Economic Crime In Dilling/South Kordofan State (2014–2016)
“Compensatory livestock thievery” within the greater Dilling locality in South Kordofan State (SKS) is an economic crime that was born out of a war environment. In this form of crime,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2017:3) 28 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2017
Usufructuary Mortgages as a Source of Funds in Need: Some Theory and an Empirical Investigation
This paper develops a theoretical framework in which the borrower, who mortgages out, and the lender, who mortgages in, a parcel of land reach their decisions when credit and land...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:6) 45 p.

Sudan Working Paper | 2017
Poverty among Sudanese communities along the eastern borders: A case study from the Kassala and Gedarif States
The data for this paper was collected through a survey aimed at reviewing the socioeconomic conditions of the communities living along the Sudanese border between Eritrea and Ethiopia. The survey...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2017:2) 16 p.

Sudan Working Paper | 2017
Weak law forbidding female genital mutilation in Red Sea State, Sudan
This paper critically investigates the criminalization of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Red Sea, a state with one of the highest prevalence rates of FGM/C in Sudan (where 89% of...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2017:1) 16 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2017
Tribal representation & local land governance in India: A case study from the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya
In India, the Schedule Tribes have remained on the fringes of growth, but less so in the majority tribal areas of the North East. This has increased the interest in...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:4) 26 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2017
Beneficial openness? Weighing the costs and benefits of financial transparency
Public financial transparency is increasingly advocated as a solution to concerns over legal tax planning by multinational corporations, and illegal tax evasion, fraud and money laundering. Caution is warranted since...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:3) 36 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2017
Policy Making in the Tanzanian Petro State: Building a Statistical Basis
This paper deals with needs and availability of data, statistics and information in Tanzania. It relates to a five-year (2014–19) research programme on prospects and challenges for the petroleum sector.
The...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:5) 53 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2017
Access to Formal Banking and Household Finances: Experimental Evidence from India
Access to formal banking is spreading across the world. Obtaining a bank account may transform how people manage their finances, and affect their savings and consumption. We report from a...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:1) 28 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2017
Mobility, Entitlement and Perceptions of Inequality
This paper proposes a model how individuals form beliefs on inequality based on their own and their family’s experience. A person’s income is determined by their effort and family background....
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:2) 24 p.