The Lebanese media landscape is widely acknowledged to be a battleground for privatized outlets aligned with political elites. Each outlet vies ...

Corruption and other factors can influence deforestation in contradictory ways. For the purpose of country-level implementation of REDD+, donors should ...

This dissertation deals with the situation of the Sri Lankan refugees who have fled to the Indian State of Tamil Nadu - primarily due to the escalating ...

In the context of a mining boom in Africa, a critical consideration is how governments use increased mineral wealth to foster development, particularly ...

This article analyses trends in Norwegian development research since 1975 until today with respect to the number of ongoing projects, institutions and ...

Summary points: Investment in land is not conflict-neutral, and given the history of violent conflict and mutual destabilization in the Horn of Africa ...

A Conversation with Knut Nustad and Finn Stepputat, two acclaimed scholars in the field of political anthropology,

Does the possession of certain types of natural resource wealth undermine national economies and damage polities? Mick Moore has studied contemporary developing countries, focusing on the political consequences of resource rents. Mick Moore is Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

Tanzanian citizens continue to have high expectations about the benefits that the country’s emerging petroleum sector will provide them with, yet ...

Evolutionary game theory provides the tools to analyze which strategies, or patterns of behaviour, emerge over time through a process of adaptation. ...

This brief summarises some of the key findings of phase 1 (2002-2005) of the Formative Process Research Programme on the local government reform in Tanzania. ...

The report historically traces the social construction of the Indian prostitute, which misrepresented and degraded the imagery of an accomplished courtesan ...

Citizens' access and right to information on local government budgets and accounts is often considered a necessary condition for good governance. Without ...

The paper discusses and reviews various directions within new institutional economics. A central question of concern is whether theories of institutionalism ...

Muslim Devotional Practices is funded by the Research Council of Norway's program Assigning Cultural Values (KULVER). The project explores how devotional ...

Valgkrisen i Afghanistan var bisarre til det siste. President Hamaid Karzai - utskjelt som korrupt leder og valgfusker i stort format - ble utropt til vinner av sin egen valgkommisjon mens gratulasjonene strømmet inn fra vestlige hovedsteder og FNs Ban Ki-Moon fløy inn personlig.

Literary salon: Ingvild Flaskerud and Håkan Rydving discuss representations of prophets and saints in Islam.

Purchasing power adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. The poorer a country is, the more its income tends to be overestimated. Consequently, international income inequality is substantially underestimated.

An increasing number of poor Southern Africans live in poverty-stricken urban slums or shantytowns. Focusing on four shantytowns in the northern Namibian ...

In 2018, Ukraine established a High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC). Ukrainian civil society groups, with the crucial support of the international community, ...