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Diffusion of Labor Standards from Origin to Host Countries: Cross County Evidence from Multinational Companies in Africa

Report in External Series | Feb 2014

This study empirically examines diffusion of labor standards from origin to host countries by investigating whether better labor standards of MNCs’ ...

Tax haven or international financial centre? The case of Kenya

U4 Brief | Sep 2014

International financial centres are geared to provide optimal conditions for the financial services industry. They encourage activities that can improve ...

international drivers of corruption, Illicit financial flows, tax havens, international financial centres, money laundering, corruption, Kenya

The Effects on Agrarian Contracts of a Governmental Intervention into Bonded Labor in the Western Terai of Nepal

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006

We study an effective intervention into a specific form of bonded labor. The intervention led to a shift in agrarian contracts, from bonded labor to sharecropping. ...

Tied labor, Agrarian institutions, Nepal, Asia: Nepal

Protective strategies in the 1990s: A review of the policy discourses in UNHCR and the executive committee

CMI Report | Jan 1998

The study examines changing policy doctrines for protecting refugees, as reflected in the official documents of UNHCR and its Executive Committee (ExCom) ...

Refugees, Refugee policy, Asylum policy, UNHCR

Social responsibility of oil companies: Angola

Project | Jan 2004 - Dec 2005

Norwegian oil companies have been involved in Angola since the mid 1990s. CMI has in co-operation with A-IP initiated a new project that will analyse ...

Africa: Angola

Benefits Streams Management in African Countries: Tsumeb and Selebi Phikwe Copper Nickel Mines

Project | Jan 2003 - Dec 2004

Jan Isaksen is engaged in this project that deals with the management of benefit streams from natural resources in African developing countries. The ultimate ...

Benefit Streams Management, natural resources, mines, taxation, Africa: Botswana, Namibia

Understanding the lie of the land: an institutional analysis of petro-governance in Tanzania

Journal Article | Jan 2018

Tanzania has recently discovered large petroleum and natural gas reserves, boosting its natural resource stocks and potential future revenue flows. Whether ...

petroleum, governance, legal regimes, Tanzania

The basics of corruption risk management: A framework for decision making and integration into the project cycles

U4 Issue | Dec 2015

Aid agencies need better systems to identify, assess, and mitigate corruption risks. Risk assessments should consider two main dimensions of an act of ...

aid

Caste, local networks and lucrative jobs: Evidence from rural Nepal

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2010

We study how local connections to persons in influential positions affect access to lucrative international migrant jobs and attractive government employment. ...

Nepal

Suspiciously Supportive or Suspiciously Obstructive? The Relationship Between Local Government and NGOs in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, and Macedonia

Journal Article | Aug 2008

Relations between local government and NGOs in post-communist states are often described in negative terms. Findings from 70 in-depth interviews ...

NGOs, local government, perceptions, collaboration, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, and Macedonia

Indigenous Peoples and Poverty: An International Perspective

Edited Book | Jan 2005

This book brings together two of today's leading concerns in development policy - the urgent need to prioritise poverty reduction and the particular circumstances ...

Poverty, Indigenous People, International

State-local community games of forest land appropriation

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1997

This paper explores possible strategic interactions between the state and local community in games of tropical forest land appropriation. Two key questions ...

Cost-benefit analysis, discounting and the environmental critique: Overloading of the discount rate?

CMI Report | Jan 1991

The use of (high) discount rates in cost-benefit analysis is being criticized in the environmental debate. In particular, some feel that high future environmental ...

Cost-benefit analysis, Discount rate, Environment, Economic theory

Preventing corruption in community mineral beneficiation schemes

U4 Issue | Feb 2017

Abstract This paper analyses patterns of corruption and corruption risks related to community mineral beneficiation schemes (CMBSs) that distribute benefits ...

natural resource management

After Violence: Transitional Justice, Peace, and Democracy

Project | Jan 2010 - Jun 2015

After Violence: Transitional Justice, Peace, and Democracy examines the effects of transitional justice on the development of peace and democracy. Anticipated ...

transitional justice, impact analysis, democracy, peace, Uruguay, Peru, Rwanda, Angola

Comparative Corporate Strategies

Project | Jan 2008 - Dec 2010

A number of studies suggest that the practices of multinational corporations in relation to corporate social responsibility and in other areas, ...

CSR, Angola, China

petroleum, bureucracy, revenue flows, natural resources, institutions, Tanzania

Tracing Gender Differences in Parliamentary Debates: A Growth Curve Analysis of Ugandan MPs' Activity Levels in Plenary Sessions, 1998-2008.

Journal Article | Sep 2014

Participation in legislative debates is potentially an important tool for Members of Parliament (MPs) to communicate policy positions and exert influence ...

Representation, quotas, gender, Uganda