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Norway's Africa policy
Book Chapter | Jan 2002
This article provides an overview of Norway's historical relations with Africa to date. It considers the full range of relations, from missionary activities ...
International relations, Norway, Africa
Workshop on policy options for economic development and ethnic relations in Malaysia held in Bergen, Norway, January 23-25, 2002. Final reports and working papers
Book | Jan 2002
This report includes nine papers presented at a workshop in honour of Just Faaland
Asia: Malaysia
How much ‘Soft Power’ does China have in Africa?
How much ‘Soft Power’ does China have in Africa?Book Chapter | Jan 2016
I have over the past years been intrigued by why Chinese scholars and policy makers have found the term ‘soft power’1 so useful. Can it have ...
Science and Technology for Development: The Institutional Landscape in Africa and Europe
Report in External Series | Jan 2009
This report provides an overview of the European and African institutional terrain and policy frameworks of S&T and development cooperation, i.e. ...
Science and technology, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa
Capital flight, tax policy and lobbyists in Africa
Capital flight, tax policy and lobbyists in AfricaBook Chapter | Nov 2017
This article examines how the use of tax havens affects tax moral and lobbying, and how tax havens form elites’ and other actors’ incentives ...
Tax reform, lobbying, exemptions, Tanzania, Zambia
Doing the wrong things for the right reasons? “Do no harm” as a principle of reform
Doing the wrong things for the right reasons? “Do no harm” as a principle of reformU4 Brief | Jan 2014
This Brief explores what “do no harm” means for corruption control in fragile settings and analyses how aid agencies translate the concept ...
fragile states, anti-corruption, do no harm, policy, strategy
Bureaucratic complexity and impacts of corruption in utilities
Bureaucratic complexity and impacts of corruption in utilitiesJournal Article | Jan 2009
This paper explores how the relationship between bureaucratic complexity and corruption affects the performance in utilities. We observe considerable ...
Corruption in Fragile States
Corruption in Fragile StatesReport in External Series | Jan 2008
Policy recommendations:
Confronting corruption is part and parcel of building legitimacy and public confidence in fragile states. Corruption creates ...
Intergovernmental fiscal relations in developing countries. A review of issues
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2001
Fiscal decentralisation - the devolution of taxing and spending powers to lower levels of government - has become an important theme of governance in ...
Fish as a vehicle for economic development in post-indepence Namibia
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1997
A key fishery policy issue decided by the new government of Namibia soon after independence in 1990 relates to the division of the total allowable catch ...
Africa: Namibia
Do interest groups matter in economic policy- making? Reflections from a Zambian case study.
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1994
The current debate within development research strongly emphasise the role of interest groups in developing and sustaining democratic and liberal economic ...
Squeezing a balloon? Challenging the nexus between organised crime and corruption
Squeezing a balloon? Challenging the nexus between organised crime and corruptionU4 Issue | Jul 2009
Corruption and organised crime are of great concern to the international community: while the first is regarded as one of the greatest barriers to development, ...
Political corruption, organised crime, illicit financial flows, international drivers of corruption
Property Taxation in Developing Countries
Property Taxation in Developing CountriesCMI Brief | Mar 2017
Property tax (PT) raises on average revenues of less than 1% of GDP in developing countries. In many African countries it contributes far less than 0.5%. ...
tax, finance, property tax, real estate, Tanzania, Africa
Winning hearts and minds: Chinese Soft Power Foreign Policy in Africa
Winning hearts and minds: Chinese Soft Power Foreign Policy in AfricaCMI Brief | Sep 2013
In President Xi Jinping’s first public speech on African soil after taking office in Tanzania 25 March 2013, his reference to a popular Chinese soap ...
soft power, media, culture, education, media, China, Africa
Implementing a transparency and accountability policy to reduce corruption: The GAVI Alliance in Cameroon
Implementing a transparency and accountability policy to reduce corruption: The GAVI Alliance in CameroonU4 Brief | Dec 2013
The GAVI Alliance – an alliance of the world’s major players in global immunisation – uncovered massive misuse of its grants in Cameroon ...
aid, Cameroon
Infrastructure policy and governance failures
Infrastructure policy and governance failuresCMI Working Paper | Sep 2012
Interventions to fix market failures in infrastructure have often resulted in some form of governance failure and this contributes importantly to explain ...
Political economy, Infrastructure, Regulation, Reform
Why Should Donors Care about Corruption?
Why Should Donors Care about Corruption?CMI Brief | Jan 2008
Corruption is bad for donor business. Corruption reduces popular support for aid in donor countries. However, aid agencies should pay attention to corruption ...
Anti.corruption, donors, aid
Intergovernmental fiscal relations in the developing world: A review of issues
Book Chapter | Jan 2001
Fiscal decentralisation - the devolution of taxing and spending powers to lower levels of government - has become an important theme of governance in ...
Corruption: A review of contemporary research
Corruption: A review of contemporary researchCMI Report | Jan 2001
During the last decade corruption has become a topical issue in the international development policy debate. Research on corruption has also expanded ...
Foreign aid to Mozambique, needs and effects. A preliminary report
DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1990
This preliminary study provides an overview of international aid received by Mozambique, and brings out central issues regarding the aid policies of representative ...
Aid, Aid coordination, Mozambique, Africa: Mozambique