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Pakistan: A Hard Country
Event | 1 May 2012
Professor Anatol Lieven discusses the key arguments in his latest book with Arne Strand and Hans Inge Langø.
Pakistan
Rights and Legal Empowerment in Eradicating Poverty
Event | 24 Nov 2008
Empowering the poor requires more than simply a transfer of resources; it entails the creation of sound legal and political frameworks which specifically address the needs of the poor and vulnerable and hold political and administrative leaders accountable for policy failures.
Bolivia, China, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, India
Livelihoods and environmental changes in the hills of Nepal
Project | Jan 1996 - Nov 2003
Research outputs consists of articles in international journals, a special journal issue, one PhD. thesis and three MA thesis.
nation building in Nepal, temple trusts, pilgrim tourism, impact of cable car, status of dalits, Asia: Nepal
When More is Less: Aiding Statebuilding in Afghanistan
Report in External Series | Jan 2006
Post-war reconstruction sometimes focus on what is commonly called statebuilding, i.e. establishing an effective, central state that operates under the ...
Post-war reconstruction, State building, Asia: Afghanistan
Economic growth, employment, and decentralised development in Sri Lanka
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000
This Working Paper describes the economic growth rate and patterns in Sri Lanka during the 1990s, showing the interrelationship between uneven sectorial ...
Asia: Sri Lanka
Countries in violent conflict and aid strategies: The case of Sri Lanka
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000
In countries with an ongoing violent conflict aid donors are confronted by four sets of issues: How the volume and orientation of the program may influence ...
Asia: Sri Lanka
CMI and Bangladesh: 40 years of collaboration and institutional capacity building
CMI Report | Jan 1997
The report reviews CMI's experience of technical assistance and institutional collaboration in Bangladesh, from its beginnings in the form of individual ...
Research collaboration, Institution building, Capacity building, Bangladesh, Asia: Bangladesh
Deforestation and entrpeneurship in the North West Frontier Province, Pakistan
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1996
Deforestation is a global environment concern, but the underlying processes vary across regions and countries. In Pakistan the threat to forests and biodiversity ...
Asia: Pakistan
The political economy of river sand mining in South Asia
Project | Aug 2020 - Dec 2023
Sand is the world’s second most consumed resource after water. It is increasingly becoming scarce. The world is running out of sand as building booms ...
Nepal, India, Bangladesh
Web pages: Afghanistan
Project | Dec 2005 - Dec 2006
The web pages will: Present facts on Afghanistan and the regionPresent official documents and links to issues related to Afghan specific development and ...
Peacebuilding, Asia: Afghanistan
Review of human rights yearbook in Nepal
Project | Jan 2002 - Jan 2003
CMI has conducted a review of a Nepalese human rights yearbook supported by NORAD over the last ten years. The review covers information collection and ...
Asia: Nepal
Commemoration and the State: Memory and Legitimacy in Vietnam
Journal Article | Apr 2010
The commemorations of historical figures, both public and private, have become a powerful tool for politicians and historians in Vietnam to reconfigure ...
De Vele Gezichten van Corruptie; een Antropologische Kijk
Journal Article | Jan 2005
The general and widely accepted definition of corruption as 'the abuse of public office for private gain' presupposes a definite separation between the ...
Corruption
Norwegian NGOs in Post-Taliban Afghanistan: Review and Lessons Learned
CMI Report | Jan 2005
Afghanistan has within the span of three years moved from a complex political emergency to a nascent state-building process, a process that is not yet ...
Aid evaluation, Nongovernmental organizations, Afghanistan, Asia: Afghanistan
Whose Mission? Limits and Potentials of the SLMM
Journal Article | Jan 2004
The article gives an assessment of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, primarily of the mission's limits and potentials with regards to human rights monitoring ...
Peacekeeping, ceasefire monitoring, human rights, peacebuilding, Asia: Sri Lanka
Afghanistan and Civil Society
Commissioned Report | Jan 2002
This report starts with an introduction to the debate on the concept of civil society,
paying particular attention to Muslim societies where traditional ...
Afghanistan, Civil Society, Conflict resolution, NGOs, Peacebuilding, , , Asia: Afghanistan
Fenomenet Taliban: Fra lokalopprør til storpolitikk
Journal Article | Jan 2001
The article presents a broad analysis of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan. The basis of the movement lies in networks of traditional religious leaders ...
Asia: Afghanistan
Coconuts and cultivation in the Philippines. A study of social formation in Candelaria, Quezon Province
CMI Report | Jan 1995
This study gives a detailed account of coconut cultivation and the social formation of coconut cultivations in a specific locality in the Quezon province ...
Agricultural production, Coconuts, Peasantry, Philippines, Asia: Philippines
Anti-Corruption in the Health Sector: Preventing Drug Diversion through Supply Chain Management
U4 Brief | Jan 2006
Drug supply is an essential component of health care systems, accounting for 10-30% of health care costs. Drugs can be expensive, and willingness to pay ...
corruption, health, world
The Effects on Agrarian Contracts of a Governmental Intervention into Bonded Labor in the Western Terai of Nepal
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006
We study an effective intervention into a specific form of bonded labor. The intervention led to a shift in agrarian contracts, from bonded labor to sharecropping. ...
Tied labor, Agrarian institutions, Nepal, Asia: Nepal