This paper argues that intraindustry trade with developed countries is an important source of technology transfer, and creates incentives to climb up ...

Terytorializując morze. O performatywności władzy i roli kartografii w rejonie Morza Południowochińs

(Working paper series, Environment and social policy, ESP 14, August 1995)

In the geopolitical conflict over the South China Sea (SCS), fishers are at the center of Chinese and Vietnamese cartographic imaginations that define ...

In this chapter Fjeldstad reflects on the non-payment of service charges in local authorities in South Africa. The main question he explores is how trust ...

Widespread and systemic corruption is a major impediment to economic, political and social development in the Third World. Corruption affects poor people ...

We identified livelihood strategies at the household level as a function of assets held using survey data from Malawi. We only included endowments that ...

Struggles for social rights - are the courts a suitable battleground? International social and economic rights are recognised as law in many countries, ...

Struggles for social rights – are the courts a suitable battleground? International social and economic rights are recognised as law in many countries, ...

(Evaluation Report 1.98)

In Africa and Latin America the conditions of rights to land are commonly characterised by ambiguous rules and norms that are intimately connected to the construction and inequality of both national and local social structures and ethnic and religious identities.

Do dominant parties comply with its gender quota rule when they face an increased electoral threat? Contrary to conventional wisdom, we question whether ...

Substantive Representation in Africa: From Timing to Framing of Family Law Reforms in Morocco, Sou

In this paper it is suggested that the present modalities for North-South cooperation, and especially the current structural adjustment programmes being ...

While much is known about corruption in post-communist states, less is known about the impact of conflict on corruption in such states. The project seeks ...

CMI received 3 research grants from the Poverty and Peace Research Programme announced the Research Council of Norway.

Religion has increasingly become important in conflicts worldwide. Religious leaders may play a key role in mobilizing believers as they can call for ...

The expansion of the international donor community clearly challenges the current "consensus" of a new "harmonised" aid architecture, ...

Analysis of the creation of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in South Yemen based on predominantly Arabic-language sources, and an assessment of ...

Richard Wilson, Gladstein Chair of Human Rights and Director of the Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut discusses human rights after 9/11, What are the effects on human rights of the military actions and anti-terror legislation that constitutes the "war on terror", in the USA as well as globally?