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Rethinking access. Key methodological challenges in studying energy companies.
Journal Article | Jan 2018
Understanding the role of large energy corporations in society is a crucial, yet challenging task for the social science of energy. Ethnographic methods ...
Energy, Corporate social responsibility, Multi-sited ethnography, Access, Positionality, Tanzania, Turkey, Norway, Brazil
Justifiable energy injustices? Exploring institutionalised corruption and electricity sector “problem-solving” in Ghana and Kenya
Journal Article | Jan 2021
The persistence of corruption amid intensified anti-corruption initiatives suggests that entitlement notions underpinning involvement in corrupt practices ...
Energy justice, Corruption, Rule of law, Entitlement notions, Ghana, Kenya
Introduction: Recovering power from energy - reconsidering the linkages between energy and development
Book Chapter | Jan 2015
Introduction: Recovering power from energy - reconsidering the linkages between energy and developm
Energy cooperation in Southern Africa: What role for Norway?
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2002
This Working Paper contains a full report from a Seminar on Regional Energy Co-operation, Luanda, 12-14 February 2002. Norwegian involvement in the energy ...
Africa: SADC
A review of development trends in the energy sector of Bangladesh
CMI Report | Jan 2001
This energy review examines the gas and power sectors in terms of major actors, current and potential output, generation, transmission and distribution ...
Energy, Gas Export, Asia: Bangladesh
Contested Powers: The Politics of Energy and Development in Latin America
Edited Book | Jan 2015
In the global North the commoditization of creativity and knowledge under the banner of a creative economy is being posed as the post-industrial answer ...
Latin America
Expanding foreign investment in the energy sector: Challenges and risks for Bangladesh?
CMI Brief | Apr 2014
Our recent research indicates that increased corruption brings increased foreign direct investment (FDI) in the extractive industries. Moreover, corruption ...
Bangladesh
Forward looking review of the regional strategy on scaling up access to modern energy services in the East African community
Commissioned Report | Jul 2013
The East African Countries (EAC) Secretariat’s Energy Division supports regional knowledge coordination and has become a common forum for exchange ...
energy, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda
Bringing the State back in. Corporate Social Responsibility and the paradoxes of Norwegian state capitalism in the international energy sector
Journal Article | Oct 2020
This theme section brings the state back into anthropological studies of corporate social responsibility through the lens of Norwegian energy corporations ...
Contested Powers: The Politics of Energy and Development in Latin America
Event | 8 Oct 2015
The key to addressing climate change and sustainable development around the globe is to first address the relationship between political and financial power and energy use and resources. Meet the editors John-Andrew McNeish, Axel Borchgrevink and Owen Logan.
Petromania and Caspian Energy Politics
News | 31 Aug 2009
A travel through the richest oil countries in the world and an analysis of Caspian energy politics.
Is Energy Nationalism a Problem in Latin America?
Event | 31 Aug 2010
How do different models of ownership over natural resources affect poverty levels and social conflicts in Latin America? Who stand to gain and who stand to lose from nationalizing natural resources? And what do "natural resources" really mean for different groups in society?
East African Community Energy Review
Project | Jan - Mar 2013
This report - Forward-Looking Review of the Regional Strategy on Scaling Up Access to Modern Energy Services in the East African Community - reviewed ...
Regional cooperation, East African Community, energy sector, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Constraints for a conservation-based agricultural development policy in Ethiopia. A baseline study in Fedis Awraja
CMI Report | Jan 1992
A baseline survey was conducted in the Hararghe region in Ethiopia in 1989 to identify constraints to agricultural production and environmental protection ...
Energy crisis, Environmental protection, Agricultural policy, Women, Ethiopia
Twenty years with anti-corruption. Part 9. The UK’s changing anti-corruption landscape – new energy, new horizons
U4 Practitioner Experience Note | Aug 2020
Between 2013 and 2018, the UK made unusually rapid progress in improving instruments to address corruption. These advances included legal reforms, such ...
Developing Angola's infrastructure: What is SADC's role?
CMI Working Paper | Jun 2011
Infrastructure has remained a main focus for SADC in its efforts to advanceregional cooperation in Southern Africa. Development of Angola’s infrastructureis ...
Infrastructure, Energy, Angola, SADC
WTO/GATS and Economic Development: Key to "the New Economy"
Commissioned Report | Jan 2005
The major objective of the Programme WTO/GATS and Economic Development: Key to "the new economy" is to produce new theoretical and empirical insights ...
WTO/GATS, Economic Development, "the new economy", financial services, telecommunications, energy services, world economy, investment- and trade patterns, Africa: Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Fuelling Development
Event | 14 Apr 2010
The drive to find alternative domestic sources of energy is intense in India. Biofuel is seen as a possibility - offering a source of fuel, reclaiming degraded land as well as generating ncome for the rural poor. Does it? Clare Tompsett discusses.
India
Norwegian energy companies abroad
Project | Feb 2015 - Dec 2019
Norwegian energy companies abroad. Expanding the anthropological understanding of corporate social responsibility.
When Norwegian energy companies invest ...
Tanzania, Turkey, Norway
Should developing countries establish petroleum funds?
Journal Article | Jun 2018
Many natural resource abundant countries have established sovereign wealth funds as part of their strategy of managing the resource wealth. The paper ...
Fiscal policy, extractive industries, resource curse, sovereign wealth fund