Professor Anatol Lieven discusses the key arguments in his latest book with Arne Strand and Hans Inge Langø.

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.

Research outputs consists of articles in international journals, a special journal issue, one PhD. thesis and three MA thesis.

Post-war reconstruction sometimes focus on what is commonly called statebuilding, i.e. establishing an effective, central state that operates under the ...

This Working Paper describes the economic growth rate and patterns in Sri Lanka during the 1990s, showing the interrelationship between uneven sectorial ...

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 ...

The report reviews CMI's experience of technical assistance and institutional collaboration in Bangladesh, from its beginnings in the form of individual ...

Deforestation is a global environment concern, but the underlying processes vary across regions and countries. In Pakistan the threat to forests and biodiversity ...

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 ...

The web pages will: Present facts on Afghanistan and the regionPresent official documents and links to issues related to Afghan specific development and ...

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 ...

The commemorations of historical figures, both public and private, have become a powerful tool for politicians and historians in Vietnam to reconfigure ...

The general and widely accepted definition of corruption as 'the abuse of public office for private gain' presupposes a definite separation between the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This report starts with an introduction to the debate on the concept of civil society, paying particular attention to Muslim societies where traditional ...

The article presents a broad analysis of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan. The basis of the movement lies in networks of traditional religious leaders ...

This study gives a detailed account of coconut cultivation and the social formation of coconut cultivations in a specific locality in the Quezon province ...

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 ...

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. ...