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Corneliussen Hans Martin Lundgaard
Master's student
Master student in comparative politics focusing on Chinese investments and aid to sub-Saharan Africa.
Economic analysis of land degradation in Indonesia upland
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1996
The objective of this research is to determine factors affecting land degradation in the upland in Indonesia, and to suggest appropriate policies regarding ...
Asia: Indonesia
The right to abortion in Tunisia after the revolution of 2011: Legal, medical and social arrangements seen through seven abortion stories
Journal Article | Dec 2019
In this article, we explore the effects that Tunisia’s post-revolutionary democratization process has had on the right to abortion, drawing on ethnographic ...
Tunisia
Economic determinants of food intake and health outcomes in Nepal
Project | Jan 2006 - Dec 2012
The project is part of a larger program at the Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, which focuses on child nutrition in Bhaktapur, Nepal. ...
Asia: Nepal
Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania
Journal Article | Mar 2021
Corruption is considered an important driver of the resource curse in developing countries. Based on a large-scale field experiment in Tanzania, this paper ...
Natural resources, Resource curse, Corruption, Behavioral economics, Political economy, Tanzania
Democratic Revolutions? Insights on Social Stability and Social Change From Psychology and Politics
Book Chapter | Jan 2018
There is growing psychological evidence that various processes differently contribute to our propensity to support or challenge the status quo; to embrace ...
Democracy
The (Re-) Integration of Ukraine into Europe
Project | Mar 2006 - Apr 2009
While Ukraine under President Kuchma steered a political course which oscillated between the pursuit of rapprochement to the European Union and unswerving ...
Ukraine, EU, integration, cultural constants, politics, economics, culture, religion, media, corruption
Present without Presence? Gender, Quotas, and Debate Recognition in the Ugandan Parliament
Journal Article | Sep 2014
This article charts a new direction in gender quota research by examining whether female legislators in general, and quota recipients in particular, ...
Uganda
To pay or not to pay? Citizens' attitudes towards taxation in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa
Report in External Series | Jan 2013
This paper examines factors that determine citizens’ tax-compliance attitude in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa. Using the 2011/12 Afrobarometer ...
Taxation, compliance, tax behaviour, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
Assessing performance enhancing tools: experiences from the public health sector in Tanzania
Journal Article | Sep 2012
Health workers’ motivation is a key determinant of the quality of health services, and poor motivation has been found to be an obstacle to service ...
Public health sector, payment for performance, Tanzania
Crop market participation among smallholder farmers in Tanzania
CMI Working Paper | Jun 2019
This paper assesses determinants of crop market participation among smallholder farmers in Tanzania, with a focus on transaction cost, asset endowment ...
Challenges facing Sudan after referendum day 2011. Persistent and emerging conflict in the north-south borderline states
Sudan Report | Jan 2010
With the referendum on the self-determination of South Sudan scheduled for January 9, 2011, Sudan will enter the final phase covered by the Comprehensive ...
Sudan
2016 Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation
Event | 22 Aug 2016
The Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation is an annual interdisciplinary meeting place for scholars who want to understand the interplay between law and social change. The lectures, roundtables and panels bring together scholars and practitioners from all over the world. Welcome
Social Relations of Rural Poverty in Mozambique
News | 20 Dec 2006
CMI presents the first report in a series of three qualitative studies on poverty in Mozambique. The study looks into people's own emic perceptions of poverty, and offers a host of policy implications.
Mozambique
Mobility, Entitlement and Perceptions of Inequality
CMI Working Paper | Feb 2017
This paper proposes a model how individuals form beliefs on inequality based on their own and their family’s experience. A person’s income ...
inequality, income, family, effort, mobility, entitlement, Chhattisgarh, India
The Accountability Function of Parliament in New Democracies: Tanzanian Perspectives
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2005
The role of parliaments in holding the executive accountable is a neglected topic in the study of the democratization process in sub-Saharan Africa. In ...
Accountability, Democracy, Parliament/legislature, Tanzania
Corruption in customs: How can it be tackled?
Book Chapter | Sep 2020
This chapter examines recent experiences in combating corruption in customs administration in developing countries. There is no lack of measures, norms, ...
Customs, Revenue administration, Corruption, Incentives, Social norms
Rethinking access. Key methodological challenges in studying energy companies.
Journal Article | Jan 2018
Understanding the role of large energy corporations in society is a crucial, yet challenging task for the social science of energy. Ethnographic methods ...
Energy, Corporate social responsibility, Multi-sited ethnography, Access, Positionality, Tanzania, Turkey, Norway, Brazil
Cannibalism and the optimal sharing of the North-East Atlantic cod stock: A computation model
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1998
This paper shows how intra-stock relations, such as cannibalism and growth enhancement, define the optimal sharing of a fish resource between heterogeneous ...
Bioeconomics, Cooperatives, Fishery resources, Cod, Harvesting, Norway, Russia
A Reluctant Warrior. The German Engagement in Afghanistan.
Report in External Series | Jan 2011
Germany’s engagement in Afghanistan post -9/11 is a milestone in German foreign policy. It is historically significant, as it marks the first deployment ...