This report provides a summary of three more extensive reports, which contribute to a baseline for the local government reform programme in Tanzania: ...

In Uruguay, innovative practices of consultation and dialogue between government and civil society have enlarged the scope of open government reforms. ...

A recent U4-workshop in Liberia has clarified obstacles and strengthened the cooperation on anti-corruption between donors, local and central authorities in Liberia. This paves the way for better donor support and government action, says U4-adviser Jesper Johnsøn.

Open data platforms have a great unexplored potential. Publicly available health data can make service delivery more transparent and accountable. Experience ...

This report documents and analyzes two recent major reforms in Lebanese law whose purpose is to further gender equality for women in Lebanon: (I) the ...

The government's ability to collect taxes depends on people's and businesses' willingness to pay them. How do you convince them to pay their fair share?

The literature on corruption tends to focus on grand corruption for contracts and licenses worth large sums of money. However, 1.6 billion people annually ...

As a direct response to Norway’s “Brazil strategy” of enhancing research cooperation on global issues between Norway and Brazil, CMI ...

Long delays in the resolution of court cases are a common problem in both developing and developed countries and impede anti-corruption efforts. Technical ...

Since the year 2000, an international reform process has been underway to reduce the negative impacts of tax havens. This paper analyzes whether the reform ...

Argentina’s transition to democracy in 1983 ended decades of cyclical military interventions in politics. Since then a long and complex process ...

The urbanisation of poverty is one of the most dramatic developments on the African continent, yielding contrasting images of affluent residential and ...

Tanzania initiated the Local Government Reform Programme in 1996. The objective of the reform is decentralisation by devolution, and to strengthen local ...

This Norad-commissioned workshop aimed at addressing organizational capacities, and financial and managerial accountability among Macedonian ...

The Egyptian military has a long history of safeguarding the Egyptian people from oppressive regimes. As the Morsi-government fails to curb the economic decline and growing unemployment, the Egyptian people once again turn their attention to the military in hope of rescue.

Weak access to basic services and poor framework conditions for the private sector impede development. Low-quality service provision for example in health, ...

Many low income countries face a trilemma with respect to taxation: (1) There is an urgent and obvious need for more revenues to enable resource poor ...

The growth of Africa’s towns and cities has outpaced local governments’ capacity for service delivery in terms of management, infrastructure, ...

The article analyses the change in discourse accompanying Bashar al-Asad's economic liberalization after 2000. The old populist social contract is to ...

There is an ongoing debate in Bangladesh in civil society and among policymakers, whether the country should move from a highly centralised unitary state ...