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Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in Africa
CMI Brief | Nov 2017
Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional ...
child marriage, counter-mobilization, Sudan, Zambia
Opening: Centre on Law and Social Transformation
Event | 22 Aug 2014
The Centre on Law & Social Transformation aims to be a dynamo for interdisciplinary research on the potential and limits of law as ...
Enough food is not enough - Litigation as a strategy to secure the right to food
Master's Thesis | Oct 2011
This thesis aims to investigate the conditions for legal enforcement of the right to food in Guatemala. In recent years there has been an increase ...
Guatemala
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
Agents or Guardians: The military and civil society in Latin America and the Middle East
Project | Jan 2012 - Jan 2013
As a direct response to Norway’s “Brazil strategy” of enhancing research cooperation on global issues between Norway and Brazil, ...
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 ...
CSR, Angola, China
Business ethics for multinational corporations in developing countries
Programme | Jan 2005 - Dec 2006
To what extent should multinational corporations doing business in developing countries contribute to improving social conditions? Where should ...
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 ...
Africa: Angola
Social responsibility and partnership
Project | Jan - Aug 2002
CMI conducted a survey of partnerships between Norwegian NGOs and business enterprises. Partnerships, especially those that include governments ...
Review of Organisation for Social Sciences in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA)
Project | Sep 2001
It is an overall assessment that OSSREA continues to play an important role for the social sciences in the large sub-region. It is important ...
research, training, Africa
Nordic Multiculturalism: Commonalities and Differences
Book Chapter | Oct 2013
The five Nordic countries may be thought of as quite similar in many ways so that we would expect commonalities rather than differences among ...
Social discrimination, migration, immigration, emigration, ethnic minorities, multiculturalism, social welfare, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finnland
A Different Yardstick: The Gendered Political Discourse in Malawi
CMI Brief | Apr 2016
The 2014 election campaign in Malawi focussed on gender rather than facts. In this brief we argue that the campaign showed a strong, conservative, ...
election, Malawi, gender, Joyce Banda
Assessing judicial performance in Indonesia: the Court for Corruption Crimes
Journal Article | Nov 2014
New specialized courts have emerged in many countries, both in response to international pressure for legal reform and reflecting states’ ...
Indonesia
Effects of Payment for Performance on accountability mechanisms: Evidence from Pwani, Tanzania
Journal Article | Jan 2017
Payment for Performance (P4P) aims to improve provider motivation to perform better, but little is known about the effects of P4P on accountability ...
P4P, RBF, Health, Tanzania
Defining poverty from below
News | 27 Feb 2012
A social class of ultra poor is becoming increasingly visible in Mozambique. Neither national authorities nor international donors are able to target them with their current poverty reduction policies.
Constitutional protection of social rights: Comparative perspectives
Event | 8 May 2012
Roberto Gargarella, Octavio Ferraz, Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Jayna Kothari, Anneken Sperr and Henriette Sinding Larsen compare and discuss research from Latin-America, India, Norway and Germany.
FOOD AND FURY
Event | 16 Oct 2012
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.
Climate Change Discourse, Rights, and the Poor
Project | Jan 2010 - Jan 2012
Climate change as a scientific issue is now a widely accepted global challenge. Narratives of climate change are becoming central to development ...
Climate change, discourse, global challenge, the poor, poverty, South Africa
Islamic resurgence as response to
Project | Jan 1996 - Dec 1999
The project focuses on the strong resurgence of Islamic ideas in Tunisia during the 1980s and the apparently equally strong movement away from ...
Social Relations of Rural Poverty in Mozambique
News | 20 Dec 2006
CMI presents the first report in a series of three qualitative studies on poverty in Mozambique. The study looks into people's own emic perceptions of poverty, and offers a host of policy implications.
Mozambique