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Afghanistan
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Afghanistan’s history is intimately tied to world politics. The latest chapter of this relationship is the unprecedented statebuilding project starting in 2001. Despite much significant change in the country, many...
Angola
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In Angola, the rents from natural resources are in the hands of a political and economic elite. We research how the country's wealth can be distributed to the benefit of...
Argentina
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Argentina is still scarred by its violent past. The military juntas of the 1970s left thousands of political opponents dead or disappeared. We explore the truth commission, trials, and reparations...
Chile
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17 years of military dictatorship in Chile caused the country to suffer large-scale systematic human rights violations. We research the country’s efforts to come to terms with its violent past...
Colombia
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One of the most difficult issues in Colombia’s efforts of ending the world’s longest armed internal conflict is how to ensure justice for the hundreds of thousands of victims. We...
Ethiopia
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Ethiopia’s economy is booming. Political opposition is not. We research governance in a broad sense, from democracy to elections and employment policies.
India
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India has experienced massive economic growth over decades that has lifted many out of poverty. Yet, there are still high levels of poverty in many parts of the country, and...
Lebanon
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The Syrian civil war has displaced more than one million Syrians as refugees to Lebanon. We study the country’s handling of the refugee crisis and the new security challenges caused...
Malawi
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Malawi is a poor country struggling to overcome decades of underdevelopment. We research governance and gender equality.
Mozambique
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Mozambique’s civil war (1975-1992) left the country scarred. We research the all-embracing consequences of poverty, with a special focus on women.
Nepal
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Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world. We research and identify strategies that can lift its people out of poverty.
Sudan
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Sudan was divided in 2011 when South Sudan achieved its independence after the longest war on the African continent. We research how local conflicts are absorbed into or affected by...
Syria
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The war in Syria has devastating consequences for the country and deep international repercussions. We study the interests and positions of the parties to the conflict and analyze the room...
Tanzania
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Tanzania was one of the first countries to receive aid from international donors. Yet, the country is still marked by ill-functioning institutions and inequality. We research measures that can contribute...
Uruguay
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The little known case of Uruguay is a small Latin American country that has made unexpectedly large progress in the area of human rights. We research how the reinvigoration of...
Global Health
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CMI's health research focuses on how to improve health and healthcare for vulnerable groups.
Governance
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We study how political institutions, political processes and political action shape and are shaped by democracy and rights, economic outcomes and social development.
Humanitarianism
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We study the mechanisms that force people to flee, the obstacles they meet on the way, and how they are treated when they try to get access to a new...
Natural Resources
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CMI research examines the political economy of natural resource extraction
covering both renewable and extractive sectors.
Poverty
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CMI studies the underlying societal and market mechanisms that may explain why people stay poor, and the design and impacts of programs to reduce poverty.
Tax and Public Finance
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Improved taxation is a key for developing countries to escape from aid or singular natural resource dependency.
Inge Amundsen
Senior Researcher
Political scientist focusing on governance, corruption, resource management
Ida-Elise Seppola Asplund
Master's student
Master's student in political science focusing on financial measures to increase gender balance in politics.
Kjersti G. Berg
Post-doctoral fellow
Middle East researcher working on the Palestine-Israel conflict, Palestinian refugees and international aid.
Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge
Associated Senior Researcher
Economist focusing on entrepreneurship and microfinance.
Sosina Bezu
Associated Senior Researcher
Economist focusing on jobs, entrepreneurship, land policy and youth.
Caroline Borge Bjelland
Master's student
Master's student in comparative politics focusing on democratic backlash in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Daniel M. Brinks
Associated Research Professor
Political scientist specialized in comparative politics and public law in Latin America.
Hans Martin Lundgaard Corneliussen
Master's student
Master student in comparative politics focusing on Chinese investments and aid to sub-Saharan Africa.
Lara Côrtes
Post-doctoral Researcher (in maternity leave)
Lawyer focusing on the promotion of social rights
Kirsty Cunningham
Senior Communications Adviser (U4)
Coordinating the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre's online research communications.
Antonio De Lauri
Research Professor, Coordinator; Humanitarianism and Borders
Anthropologist with interest in legal anthropology, freedom, war, humanitarianism
Lucie Ducarre
Research, communication and admin assistant (U4)
Socio-legal scientist with background in law, publishing, and international studies.
Jackie Dugard
Associated Senior Researcher
Lawyer focusing on power and exclusion, particularly law and courts in social change, socio-economic rights, access to courts, protest and social movements, property law and gender-based harm.
Kendra Dupuy
Researcher
Political economist focusing on natural resource management, the education sector, civil society, and monitoring and evaluation in development aid
Anwesha Dutta
Post-doctoral Researcher
Political Ecologist using ethnographic methods,focusing on environment, notably ecology approaches to forestry, wildlife conservation and resource extraction
Odd-Helge Fjeldstad
Research Professor, Coordinator: Tax and Public Finance
Economist focusing on taxation, fiscal corruption and capital flight.
Hanna Fløysvik
Head of HR
Experience in organisational development, leadership advice & training, coordinating, recruitment, onboarding/offboarding, workshops, complex personnel cases, and rules & regulations.
Jon Einar Flåtnes
Senior researcher
Economist focusing on poverty, resilience, and climate change adaptation
Robert Forster
PhD candidate
Social scientist with interest in governance, peacebuilding, and the Middle East.
Abdel Ghaffar Ahmed
Associated Research Professor
Social anthropologist whose research covers topics related to political, social and economic development of Africa in general and Sudan and the Horn of Africa in particular.
Camila Gianella
Researcher
Social Psychologist with a research focus on rights-based approaches to health
Siri Gloppen
Research professor
Political scientist exploring intersections between law and politics
Aziz Hakimi
Associated researcher
Political sociologist whose research interests include war and state formation, government-backed militias, masculinities and marriage practices in Afghanistan
Peter Hangoma
Post Doctoral Researcher
Economist with Interest in Global Development, Applied Econometrics, and Health
Magnus Hatlebakk
Senior Researcher; Coordinator: Poverty Dynamics
Economist focusing on poverty, social exclusion and rural development.
Johan Helland
Emeritus
Social anthropologist with extensive experience from developmental research, consultancy and administrative work in Eastern and North-eastern Africa.
Paul Hofman
Post Doctoral Researcher
Economist working on labour, social networks and large-scale land acquisitions.
David Jackson
Senior Advisor (U4)
Political scientist specialising in governance and anticorruption, with a particular focus on the role of informal institutions.
Karine Aasgaard Jansen
Senior researcher
Social anthropologist focusing on medical anthropology, health and politics.
Eyolf Jul-Larsen
Emeritus
Social anthropologist focusing on development, with a particular emphasis on fishing communities and migration in West and Southern Africa.
Are John Knudsen
Research Professor
Social anthropologist focusing on micro conflict, displacement and forced migration in South Asia and the Middle East
Ivar Kolstad
Associated Research Professor
Economist whose current research focuses on the political economy of development, poverty dynamics, and corporate social responsibility
Siri Lange
Associated Research Professor
Anthropologist focusing on public health, gender, foreign investements, and political processes at the local level in East Africa
Malcolm Langford
Associated Research Professor
Political scientist specialising in development and human rights
Pauline Lemaire
PhD candidate
Political scientist focusing on the interactions between young people and the state as mediated by new technologies.
Sophie Lemaître
Senior Adviser (U4)
Lawyer specialized in illicit financial flows and natural resources, with a focus on forest, extractive, and wildlife
Ingvild Lemstad
Master's student
Master's student in political science focusing on post-war politics, governance and democracy.
Päivi Lujala
Associated Senior Researcher
Economist focusing on natural resource management and adaptation to climate change.
Irene Maffi
Associated Senior Researcher
Social anthropologist focusing on political anthropology and reproduction.
Saul Mullard
Senior Program Advisor (U4)
Social scientist with a background in Development Studies and South Asian studies.
Siri Neset
Associated Researcher
Political psychologist focusing on rhetoric, perceptions, foreign policy decision-making, identity, and the links between political ideology, power and violence.
Guillaume Nicaise
Senior Adviser
Anthropologist working on local public governance and corruption risk management
Jarl Henning Engedal Nilsen
Master's student
Master's student in history focusing on humanitarian and development aid.
Aslak Jangård Orre
Senior Researcher, Coordinator Governance
Political scientist whose competence areas include local government reform, corruption and opposition in Africa.
Lise Rakner
Associated Research Professor
Political scientist focusing on democratisation and human rights, economic reform, taxation, institutional change and international aid, with a particular emphasis on Southern and Eastern Africa.
Carmeliza Rosario
Social and Development Anthropologist working on poverty, vulnerability, inequality and gender
Edyta Roszko
Senior Researcher, Principal Investigator: TransOcean (ERC Starting Grant)
Anthropologist with interest in maritime territorialisation, militarisation of oceans and seas, human security, markets and historical anthropology.
Lisa Tveit Sandberg
Comparative Politics student, writing master thesis about taxation policies and inequality in Latin America
Jessica Schultz
Senior Researcher
Lawyer specialising in international human rights and refugee law.
Sofie Arjon Schütte
Senior Adviser
Social Scientist with a focus on corruption and anti-corruption measures in the justice sector.
Hilde Selbervik
Senior Researcher
Contemporary historian with research interests in developing aid, human rights, economic and political reforms, conditionality and international negotiations.
Ilker Gökhan Sen
Affiliated researcher
Constitutional lawyer using interdisciplinary methods to understand the relationship between constitutional law and political reality.
Eskindir Loha Shumbullo
Post Doctoral Researcher
Epidemiologist focusing on communicable diseases, nutrition and health services
Rachel Sieder
Associated Research Professor
Political scientist whose research interests straddles politics, legal anthropology, and legal sociology.
Ingrid Hoem Sjursen
Post Doctoral Researcher
Economist working on development, taxation and state capacity
Elin Skaar
Research Professor
Political scientist exploring intersections between law and politics in Latin America and Africa
Vincent Somville
Associated Senior Researcher
Economist focusing on informal finance and entrepreneurship.
Hugo Stokke
Senior Researcher
Hugo Stokke is a political scientist focusing on human rights research.
Arne Strand
Deputy Director, Research Director, U4 Director
Director, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre / Political Scientist focusing on peace, conflict, aid and Afghanistan.
Astri Suhrke
Associated Research Professor
Political scientist focusing on the social, political and humanitarian consequences of violent conflict, and strategies of response.
Bert Suykens
Associated Senior Researcher
Political Scientist and Historian focus on the political economy of resource extraction and violent politics in South Asia
Joar Svanemyr
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sociologist focusing on adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender perspectives.
Gunnar M. Sørbø
Emeritus
Anthropologist focusing on development; conflict and peacebuilding; social impact assessment (incl. resettlement); agricultural and pastoral systems; and regional analysis and economic adaptations.
Cathrine Talleraas
Researcher
Human Geographer focusing on migration, transnationalism and governance
Kari Telle
Senior Researcher
Social anthropologist who works on the 'politics of faith' focusing on the legal regulation of religion, religious minorities, militias, conflict and local justice in Indonesia
Elling N. Tjønneland
Senior Researcher
Political scientist focusing on development and development assistance, rising powers and African development and a strong emphasis on South Africa and Southern Africa.
Sarah A Tobin
Research Professor
Anthropologist focusing on Islam, economic anthropology, and displacement/migration in the Middle East and East Africa.
Ragnar Torvik
Associated Senior Researcher
Economist whose main interests are political economy, petroleum economics, and macroeconomics.
Salla Turunen
PhD candidate
Doctoral Researcher with research focus on humanitarian diplomacy and the United Nations
Inge Tvedten
Emeritus
Anthropologist with a particular interest in urban and rural poverty and poverty alleviation.
Liv Tønnessen
Research Director
Political scientist researching women, politics and Islam in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Espen Villanger
Research Director
Economist working on violence against women, job creation and private sector development and poverty reduction.
Vibeke Wang
Senior Researcher and Coordinator: Gender Politics
Political scientist whose research focuses on politics and gender
Cecilie Wathne
(U4) Senior Adviser
Development economist focusing on how to plan, measure and evaluate anti-corruption interventions
David Aled Williams
Senior Program Advisor (U4)
Political scientist focusing on aid effectiveness, corruption, governance, and natural resources, using political economy and political ecology approaches.
Bruce M. Wilson
Associated Research Professor
Political scientist focusing on judicial politics and the political economy of Latin America
Torunn Wimpelmann
Senior Researcher
Political ethnographer whose current focus is on the intersections between gender, political and legal orders in contemporary Afghanistan.
Jay van der Vlist
Research Assistant
Master's Graduate in Philosophy with a specialisation in Ethics and Political Philosophy.
Lovise Aalen
Research Director
Political scientist focusing on democracy, governance and women's employment and empowement in the Horn of Africa
Per Aarvik
Affiliated expert
Political scientist focused on digital tools for democracy, development and humanitarianism
Taxation and tax reforms in developing countries: Illustrations from sub-Saharan Africa
CMI Report | Jan 2003
Many low income countries face a trilemma with respect to taxation: (1) There is an urgent and obvious need for more revenues to enable resource poor ...
Taxation, Tax reform, Democratisation, JEL H20, H30, H71, H77, 023, P45, Africa: Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda, sub-Saharan Africa