Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos managed to secure approval for the new peace agreement between the government and FARC before he comes to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10.

Big accounting firms advice multinational companies on tax loopholes and lobby for tax exemptions. At the same time they advice governments in developing countries on tax reforms and engage in government task forces. A new research project delve deeper into the dual role of multinational accounting firms.

Felipe doesn’t like it much, shootouts occur almost every day, but he knows that he can’t show any signs of weakness, so he tries to keep up appearances. Two weeks after arriving at Fazendinha he was shot in a confrontation with armed traffickers.

This article explores the role of private security and military companies within the wider confinements of peace operations governance. To do so, the ...

Civil society accountability initiatives that take into account power structures at multiple levels can produce more lasting institutional change, compared ...

This thesis seeks to combine institutional peacebuilding theory and democratization theory in order to understand the process and the result of the implementation ...

Serious shortcomings in Sudanese laws and practices contribute to the lack of protection of victims of rape in Sudan. There is need for comprehensive ...

A recent anti-corruption initiative targeting Peru's education sector was undertaken jointly by the Office of the Ombudsman and Transparency International's ...

Interventions to fix market failures in infrastructure have often resulted in some form of governance failure and this contributes importantly to explain ...

Taxpayer compliance in Sub-Saharan Africa is closely linked to peoples' views of the government's ability to deliver on important services, the fairness of the system, and consequences of tax evasion shows findings from the recent Afrobarometer survey.

Recent years have seen a growing interest among donors on taxation in developing countries. This reflects a concern for domestic revenue mobilization ...

Over the last decade several African countries have undertaken comprehensive reforms of their tax administrations, with the aims of increasing revenue ...

CANCELLED. Professor Amos Sawyer cannot come to Bergen 23 May.

This study compares the evolution of the state-of-the-art in research and analysis of anticorruption and transparency with World Bank practice. The first ...

W. Michael Kramer a leading expert in the investigation and civil prosecution of serious fraud and corruption cases, holds a brownbag lunch at CMI discussing corruption and fraud in international development projects.

Sudanese women activists launch reform initiatives to bring justice to rape victims. Non-governmental and governmental actors alike advocate for change. -International donors should seize this window of opportunity and facilitate dialogue between different stakeholders in Sudan, says CMI-researcher Liv Tønnessen.

The project Women’s Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim World seeks to map family and criminal law reforms in the period 1995-2015 in Afghanistan, ...

The overall objective of phase 2 (2005-2009) of this research programme is to document the processes of change and impacts of the ongoing Local Government ...

The gaps between approved budgets and the realisation of policy and development goals stand among key governance challenges in many developing countries. ...

The primary objective of this project was to identify viable approaches to the delivery of basic services for people living in poor urban areas. In the ...