Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional ...

The Centre on Law & Social Transformation aims to be a dynamo for interdisciplinary research on the potential and limits of law as ...

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 ...

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

As a direct response to Norway’s “Brazil strategy” of enhancing research cooperation on global issues between Norway and Brazil, ...

A number of studies suggest that the practices of multinational corporations in relation to corporate social responsibility and in other ...

To what extent should multinational corporations doing business in developing countries contribute to improving social conditions? Where should ...

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 ...

CMI conducted a survey of partnerships between Norwegian NGOs and business enterprises. Partnerships, especially those that include governments ...

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 ...

The five Nordic countries may be thought of as quite similar in many ways so that we would expect commonalities rather than differences among ...

The 2014 election campaign in Malawi focussed on gender rather than facts. In this brief we argue that the campaign showed a strong, conservative, ...

New specialized courts have emerged in many countries, both in response to international pressure for legal reform and reflecting states’ ...

Payment for Performance (P4P) aims to improve provider motivation to perform better, but little is known about the effects of P4P on accountability ...

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.

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 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 as a scientific issue is now a widely accepted global challenge. Narratives of climate change are becoming central to development ...

The project focuses on the strong resurgence of Islamic ideas in Tunisia during the 1980s and the apparently equally strong movement away from ...

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.