Between 2011 and 2013, sales of government oil from the ten biggest producers in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 56% of these countries’ ...

CSR is on the rise in the Arab World, but the initiators find it difficult to root the concept beyond the ranks of state-owned enterprises and crony capitalists. - When CSR projects are initiated in Arab countries, they do not enter an empty void. Many businessmen have pre-existing conceptions of social responsibility, originated in Islam, says CMI-researcher Kjetil Selvik.

In today's Egypt, you cannot miss it: the heavy presence of the military institution in the economy. The Egyptian military owns business enterprises ...

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) have been described as ‘the backbone' of the economy of the Western Balkans.Indeed, with SMEs ...

Rural Angola has gone through decades of hardships with war and economic marginalisation – culminating with the current economic crisis. ...

Tanzania has recently discovered huge offshore natural gas fields. This has led the Government to develop Local Content Policies (LCPs) to increase ...

One of the more interesting traits of barter trade in the transition economies is the participation of foreign owned enterprises. As a rule, ...

The project on Community development with traditional leaders funded by the Norwegian Embassy and implemented by Matantala Rural Integrated ...

The report was commissioned by the Research Council of Norway in order to provide a state of the art account of how to link human rights and ...

If African economies are to transform, they need more than growth - they need growth with depth.

Violence against women is widespread in Angola. This brief presents the main findings in a recent study of how violence against women is playing ...

In the contemporary writing on state-building in post-conflict situations, remarkably little attention is paid to what it takes to build a state. ...

How can donors strengthen tax systems in developing countries? By complementing their technical approach with measures to build a taxpayer culture, and challenging development countries to take the lead, says CMI researcher Odd-Helge Fjeldstad.

Sudan has undertaken decentralization reforms since the early 1990s, in a federal government system with three tiers: federal, state, and local ...

Sudan has undertaken decentralization reforms since the early 1990s, in a federal government system with three tiers: federal, state, and local ...

The aim of the research project “Elections and Democracy in Africa” is to contribute to a comparative understanding of the challenges ...

Name: Merima Ali Research interests: Micro- and small-scale enterprises, cluster development and informal networks Geographical areas: Ethiopia ...

CMI Brief December 2015 Volume 14 No.08 Huge reservoirs of natural gas have been discovered offshore the southern coast of Tanzania. The country ...

Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen has accepted a position as Associated Senior Researcher at CMI.

This project aims to study the policies, practices and impact of humanitarian diplomacy (HD) as conducted by select state actors that are new ...