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Collective identities and social movements

CMI Report | Jan 1996

This report gives an overview of theories and approaches to the study of social identities, drawing on recent literature in the field. It argues ...

Social theory, Political theory, Modernization, Collective action, Global

Social Relations of Poverty: A Case-Study from Owambo, Namibia

CMI Report | Jan 1999

Evidence from a number of quantitative studies on poverty in Namibia suggests that poverty is widespread, albeit unevenly distributed. The relatively ...

Poverty, Urban areas, Rural areas, Social aspects, Namibia, Africa: Namibia

Democratic Revolutions? Insights on Social Stability and Social Change From Psychology and Politics

Book Chapter | Jan 2018

There is growing psychological evidence that various processes differently contribute to our propensity to support or challenge the status quo; ...

Democracy

Strengthening Nordic development cooperation in and with Afghanistan

Report in External Series | Mar 2009

The meeting of the Nordic Foreign Ministers in Stockholm on 18 April 2008 adopted a Plan of Action for Nordic Cooperation in Afghanistan to ...

Afghanistan

Self-interest and global responsibility: Aid policies of South Korea and India in the making

CMI Report | Jun 2009

How can we understand the emerging donors? The role of ‘emerging’ donors is currently at the heart of the international aid ...

Development assistance, Aid policy, Emerging donors, India, South Korea, India, South Korea

Navigating complexity. A review of training for peace in Africa

Commissioned Report | Jun 2010

Training for Peace in Africa (TfP) has, since its start in 1995, been provided with NOK 170 million to strengthen African capacities for participation ...

Disability compensation and responsibility

Journal Article | Jan 2010

It is a central political goal to secure disabled individuals the same opportunities as others to pursue their conception of a good life. This ...

Risques de corruption dans le système de justice pénale et outils d’évaluation

U4 Issue | Jun 2015

Ce document d’analyse U4 est destiné aux responsables politiques des pays en développement et à leurs citoyens, ainsi ...

Justice pénale, Enquêtes, Police, Judiciare, Procès, Détention, Peines, Corruption, Évaluatuon

Clustering as an organizational response to capital market inefficiency: evidence from microenterprises in Ethiopia

Journal Article | Mar 2014

Absence of a well-developed capital market has been listed as a key obstacle to industrialization in developing countries in the development ...

Microenterprises, Finance, Entry barrier, Clustering, Africa, Ethiopia

Clustering as an Organizational Response to Capital Market Inefficiency:Evidence from Handloom Enterprises in Ethiopia

Report in External Series | Jan 2010

Using data from microenterprises of the handloom sector in four regions of Ethiopia, the paper shows that clustering, through specialization ...

clustering, industrialization, finance, microenterprises, Ethiopia, Ethiopia

The resource bites back: Entry-points for addressing corruption in wildlife crime

U4 Issue | Nov 2016

Corruption has recently risen up the global wildlife conservation agenda with a series of international agreements highlighting the role of ...

natural resource management

When "participation" isn't participatory: current health reforms in colombia

Journal Article | Jan 2009

Colombia is a country marked by extreme social inequalities and high levels of violence, with a government that has brutally repressed social ...

Courts and Social Transformation in New Democracies. An Institutional Voice for the Poor?

Edited Book | Jan 2006

Using case studies drawn from Latin America, Africa, India and Eastern Europe, this volue examines the role of courts as a channel for social ...

courts, social transformation, access to justice, poverty

Statistical evidence on social and economic exclusion in Nepal

CMI Report | Jan 2009

The discourse on social exclusion in Nepal is very ideological, with some authors considering basically all Nepalis as socially excluded except ...

Social and economic indicators, Statistical analysis, Caste and ethnic identity, Nepal

Legal enforcement of social rights: Enabling conditions and impact assessment

Journal Article | Jan 2010

This article commends the concise and useful analysis of courts and the legal enforcement of economic, social and cultural rights given in Christian ...

Female Empowerment and the Education of Children in Nepal

Journal Article | Jun 2016

There is sufficient evidence to say that female empowerment affects economic and social outcomes, in particular for girls. There is, however, ...

Intrahousehold, female autonomy, South-Asia, Nepal

The Other Side of Taxation: Extraction and Social Institutions in the Developing World

Journal Article | Jan 2018

The fiscal sociology literature views the state at the heart of development, but in most developing countries, formal taxation is limited. Instead, ...

taxation, social institutions, social extraction, informal taxation, service provision

Reducing corrupt practices in environmental decision-making

Project | Sep 2015 - Apr 2016

Corruption risks in the field of environmental impact assessments have yet to be assessed critically in Albania despite numerous allegations ...

Corruption, anti-corruption, environmental impact assessments, environmental decisions, environmental governance, Albania

Aid effectiveness to infrastructure: a comparative study of East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

Project | Sep 2006 - Jul 2008

Aid effectiveness to infrastructure: a comparative study of East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa Japan

Conference on the conflict in Sri Lanka and the international response

Project | Jan 1996

The conference on the Sri Lankan situation and the role of the international community was arranged by CMI, in cooperation with the All Parties ...