Military and civilian actors are engaged in a debate over where to draw the lines in the provision of humanitarian and development assistance. This is ...

Food evokes emotions. Food shapes nations and cultures. Food can be a source of conflict. Food riots are one of the oldest forms of people's revolutions.

The UN estimates that 20 million are held in bonded labor. Several economic analyses assert that bonded laborers accept these contracts voluntarily, which ...

Whither Malawi? Will its natural resources be a curse….or blessing? Malawi is a tiny land-locked country neighbouring Tanzania, Zambia & Mozambique ...

"Absolutely Spotless": Are Women Cleaner Public Actors than Men? asks CMI researcher Gisela Geisler in her essay. Geisler argues that the notion that women are less corrupt than men, and that more women reduce corruption and increases the efficiency of public spending and thus leads to poverty reduction, is the reverse of another older myth that kept women out of politics and public life.

This report from the Global Centre for The Responsibility to Protect examines the entire sequence of events in Darfur and asks, first, why the world manifestly failed to stem the violence, and, secondly, what ought to have been done in the face of a state apparently determined to perpetrate atrocities upon its own people.

Assigning forest carbon rights is crucial for any effective REDD+ system. Often linked to debates about forest tenure, carbon rights determine who can ...

We investigate whether historic land distribution determines stagnation or development of Indian villages. The empirical analysis is motivated by the ...

In 1997, Ireland Aid (IA) established a Human Rights and Democratisation (HRD) scheme in order to assist projects outside IA's programme countries. Its ...

What can explain the apparent lack of political will to formulate, implement and monitor the budget process and public financial management in accordance ...

More than half of the world's population live in urban areas. The policies and practices of municipal governments are therefore an integral determinant ...

We identified livelihood strategies at the household level as a function of assets held using survey data from Malawi. We only included endowments that ...

This paper examines factors determining tax compliance behavior in local authorities in Tanzania. The poll tax - locally named "development levy" - is ...

All over the world, there are gatekeepers with the power to facilitate – or restrict – peoples’ access. We have studied the role of ...

Human rights are currently an important area of research at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), as they have been for the past 20 years. This anthology ...

Tax evasion and corruption in the tax administration hit developing countries hard. The purpose of this thesis is to shed light on these phenomena in ...

State capacity to mobilize fiscal resources is accredited as being important to development. Creation of fiscal capacity entails investment in state structure ...

This study examines factors that determine business people’s attitudes towards paying taxes in Ethiopia. Based on data obtained from a survey of ...

We investigate whether historic land distribution determines stagnation or development of Indian villages. The empirical analysis is motivated by the ...

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of 2005 provided southern Sudanese with the right to self-determination through a referendum vote that took place ...