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"Opitanha". Social Relations of Rural Poverty in Northern Mozambique (Sub-Project 1)

Project | Mar 2006 - Jan 2008

Research-based information is recognised as crucial for Mozambique's endeavours to reduce its poverty. This first report in a series of three qualitative ...

Mozambique, PARPA, Rural Poverty, Participatory Methodologies

La recuperación de activos robados: Un principio fundamental de la Convención de la ONU contra la corrupción

U4 Brief | Jan 2007

Pese a los cientos de miles de millones de dólares en ayuda humanitaria, las Naciones Unidas determinó en 2004 que 54 países eran ...

uncac

Rosario Carmeliza

Social and Development Anthropologist working on poverty, vulnerability, inequality and gender

Carmeliza Rosário is a Social and Development Anthropology, with working ex

Poverty, Vulnerability, Inequality, Gender, Rights, Health, Mozambique, Angola, Southern Africa

Gianella Camila

Researcher

Social Psychologist with a research focus on rights-based approaches to health

Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Tuberculosis, Health Systems, Right to Health, Colombia, Mozambique, Peru

Sen Ilker Gökhan

Affiliated researcher

Constitutional lawyer using interdisciplinary methods to understand the relationship between constitutional law and political reality.

What does COVID-19 tell us about the Peruvian health system?

Journal Article | Dec 2020

Peru seemed well placed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic as a country that had achieved sustained economic growth and moved towards achieving universal ...

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

Poverty and entrepreneurship

Project | Jan 2011 - Dec 2014

In 2010, CMI in cooperation with Development Workshop conducted a survey among 540 clients in two Luanda branches of the Kixicredito micro-credit institution. ...

poverty, entrepreneurship, microcredit, education, social capital, health, Angola

Review of the Norad Programme in Arts and Cultural Education (ACE)

Project | Apr - Jul 2008

The Norad programme in Arts and Cultural Education (ACE) is a programme for cooperation between institutions for cultural education in the South and partners ...

Tanzania (field visit), Uganda, Mali, South Africa (desk study)

Corruption in the Education Sector in Bangladesh

Project | Jan 2001 - Mar 2005

The project focuses on the relationship between education and corruption in Bangladesh. The main interest is in the types of interpersonal transactions ...

Corruption, education, bureaucracy, transactions, anthropology, Bangladesh, Asia: Bangladesh

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