What are the consequences in the recipient countries, when donor countries close down their bilateral aid programmes? Are exit practices consistent with ...

This paper presents the theoretical and methodological framework of a joint research project by Lise Rakner and Tor Skålnes, "Political Liberalisation ...

South Africa: Rethinking enforcement narratives Malcolm Langford, Steven Kahanovitz Social Rights Ju

Improving the Business and Investment Climate (BIC) has become an important topic in the international discourse on private sector development. Partner ...

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)

The workshop Toward fiscal self-reliance: Capacity building for domestic revenue enhancement in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia took place in Maputo, ...

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)

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 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.

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 ...