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Trading in corruption: Evidence and mitigation measures for corruption in the trading of oil and minerals
U4 Issue | Jun 2017
Between 2011 and 2013, sales of government oil from the ten biggest producers in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 56% of these countries’ ...
natural resource management, oil, minerals, resource curse, commodity trading, corruption, national oil companies, state-owned enterprises, extractive revenue misappropriation
CSR in the Arab World: A mission impossible?
News | 25 Feb 2013
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.
Egypt’s Military Business: The Need for Change
Newspaper Op-Ed | Nov 2015
In today's Egypt, you cannot miss it: the heavy presence of the military institution in the economy. The Egyptian military owns business enterprises ...
Egypt, business, military, economy
Corruption and doing business in Serbia
U4 Brief | Oct 2007
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) have been described as ‘the backbone' of the economy of the Western Balkans.Indeed, with SMEs ...
private sector, corruption, Serbia
Marginalisation and Poverty in Rural Malanje, Angola
CMI Brief | Dec 2016
Rural Angola has gone through decades of hardships with war and economic marginalisation – culminating with the current economic crisis. ...
poverty, rural, economic crisis, education, health, Malanje, Angola
Lack of consultation. Stakeholders perspectives on local content requirements in the petroleum sector in Tanzania
CMI Brief | Oct 2016
Tanzania has recently discovered huge offshore natural gas fields. This has led the Government to develop Local Content Policies (LCPs) to increase ...
oil, gas, resources, local content, petroleum, Tanzania
Informal trade networks
Project | Jan 2004 - Jan 2005
One of the more interesting traits of barter trade in the transition economies is the participation of foreign owned enterprises. As a rule, ...
Review of Matantala Rural Integrated Enterprise and the community development with traditional leaders programme
Report in External Series | Sep 2009
The project on Community development with traditional leaders funded by the Norwegian Embassy and implemented by Matantala Rural Integrated ...
Zambia
Human rights and private enterprise: With an emphasis on companies operating abroad
Report in External Series | Jan 2000
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 ...
Human rights, Private enterprise, Multinational corporations, Code of conduct, Global
African Transformation
Event | 29 Oct 2014
If African economies are to transform, they need more than growth - they need growth with depth.
Ghana
Violence against women in the context of urban poverty in Angola
CMI Brief | Oct 2016
Violence against women is widespread in Angola. This brief presents the main findings in a recent study of how violence against women is playing ...
women, violence, poverty, Angola, Luanda
Exogenous state-building: The contradictions of the international project in Afghanistan
Book Chapter | Jan 2011
In the contemporary writing on state-building in post-conflict situations, remarkably little attention is paid to what it takes to build a state. ...
Afghanistan
Strengthening tax systems in developing countries
News | 19 Dec 2013
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.
Revenue mobilization at sub-national levels in Sudan
Sudan Report | Jan 2016
Sudan has undertaken decentralization reforms since the early 1990s, in a federal government system with three tiers: federal, state, and local ...
Sub-national revenue mobilisation, local government, taxation, tax reform, intergovernmental fiscal relations, Sudan
Revenue mobilization at sub-national levels in Sudan
Project | Feb - Aug 2013
Sudan has undertaken decentralization reforms since the early 1990s, in a federal government system with three tiers: federal, state, and local ...
Intergovernmental fiscal relations, state and local government revenues, taxes, business licenses, user fees, Sudan
Elections and Democracy in Africa
Project | Nov 2009 - May 2010
The aim of the research project “Elections and Democracy in Africa” is to contribute to a comparative understanding of the challenges ...
Liberation movements, pro-democray movements, Africa, elections, democracy, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabwe
New economist at CMI
News | 29 Jun 2012
Name: Merima Ali
Research interests: Micro- and small-scale enterprises, cluster development and informal networks
Geographical areas: Ethiopia ...
Non-resource taxation in a resource rich setting: A broader tax base will enhance tax compliance in Tanzania
CMI Brief | Mar 2016
CMI Brief December 2015 Volume 14 No.08
Huge reservoirs of natural gas have been discovered offshore the southern coast of Tanzania. The country ...
Tanzania
Hylland Eriksen joins CMI
News | 27 Nov 2014
Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen has accepted a position as Associated Senior Researcher at CMI.
Humanitarian Diplomacy
Project | Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
This project aims to study the policies, practices and impact of humanitarian diplomacy (HD) as conducted by select state actors that are new ...
Qatar, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, UAE