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Building taxpayer culture in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia: Achievements, challenges and policy recommendations
CMI Report | Jul 2012
The study examines measures that aim to encourage taxpayer compliance through taxpayer education and constructive engagement between the government ...
Taxation, Tax morale, Tax compliance, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia
Business training in Tanzania: From research driven experiment to local implementation
Journal Article | Sep 2012
Field experiments documenting positive treatment effects have a strong policy message: scale up! However, such experiments are typically implemented ...
microfinance, training, entrepeneurs, , Tanzania
The Depoliticisation of Development and the Democratisation of Politics in Tanzania: Parallel Structures as Obstacles to Delivering Services to the Poor
Journal Article | Jan 2008
Local democracy and the involvement of local communities in the provision of social services are central issues in the local government reforms ...
Local government reform, service delivery, Tanzania
Collective donor responses: Examining donor responses to corruption cases in Afghanistan, Tanzania and Zambia
U4 Report | Nov 2013
In 2006, the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Ministers of Development expressed a desire to move towards more effective collective responses ...
donor coordination, Collective donor responses, Donor coordination, Joint donor responses, Tanzania, Afghanistan, Zambia
Using incentives to attract nurses to remote areas of Tanzania: a contingent valuation study
Journal Article | Jan 2014
This article analyses (1) how financial incentives (salary top-ups) and non-financial incentives (housing and education) affect nurses’ ...
Tanzania
Gold and governance: Legal injustices and lost opportunities in Tanzania
Journal Article | Jan 2011
Following advice from the World Bank, and hoping for economic growth and independence from donors, a number of African countries have opened ...
Governance, land, Tanzania
Shaping the tax agenda: Public engagement, lobbying and tax reform in Tanzania
CMI Brief | Jul 2015
Tax reforms are no longer the exclusive domain of the International Monetary Fund, external experts, and the Ministry of Finance. Increasingly, ...
Tax reform, lobbying, Tanzania
Protocol for the evaluation of a pay for performance programme in Pwani region in Tanzania: A controlled before and after study
Journal Article | Aug 2013
The use of supply-side incentives to increase health service utilisation and enhance service quality is gaining momentum in many low- and middle-income ...
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
Who benefits from increased service utilisation? Examining the distributional effects of payment for performance in Tanzania
Journal Article | Jan 2018
Payment for performance (P4P) strategies, which provide financial incentives to health workers and/or facilities for reaching pre-defined performance ...
Pay for performance, Tanzania
Comparing Poverty Reduction Strategies in Eastern and Southern Africa
Book Chapter | Jan 2008
This concluding chapter compares the poverty reduction strategies of six sub-Saharan African countries (Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, ...
Poverty reduction, Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
Informal pay and the quality of health care: lessons from Tanzania
U4 Brief | Oct 2007
Informal payments for health services are common in many transitional and developing countries. Informal payments are often claimed to reduce ...
corruption, health, Tanzania
Informal payments and health worker effort: A quantitative study from Tanzania
Journal Article | Nov 2012
Informal payments—payments made from patients to health personnel in excess of official fees—are widespread in low-income countries. ...
informal payments, , rent seeking, , direct clinical observation, , health worker effort, , Tanzania
Education and electoral participation: Reported versus actual voting behaviour
Journal Article | Dec 2016
Using survey data of voters in Tanzania, this paper shows that while education does not affect self-reported voting in general elections, it ...
Voting, elections, participation, education, Tanzania
How do voters respond to information on self-serving elite behaviour? Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Tanzania
CMI Working Paper | Nov 2016
Does self-serving elite behaviour make citizens more politically active? This paper presents the results of a randomized field experiment where ...
Tanzania
Taxing the urban boom in Tanzania: Central versus local government property tax collection
CMI Insight | Jun 2017
Effective collection of property taxes requires constructive working relations between the central government revenue authority and the municipalities, ...
property tax, tax administration, tax, Tanzania, Kinondoni, Ilala, Temeke, Dar es Salaam
Den gode «fiende»: Fra flyktninger til seksuelle minoriteter
Newspaper Op-Ed | Apr 2019
Hvorfor kjører Polens nasjonal-konservative regjeringsparti LHBT-motstand som viktigste valgkamptema foran Europaparlamentsvalget i mai?
Under ...
Civil society’s role in petroleum sector governance: The case of Tanzania
CMI Brief | May 2019
Good governance in the management of natural resources is now recognized by scholars and policy makers as key to ensuring that countries can ...
Tanzania
PhD in Global Health
News | 10 Mar 2006
CMI is starting a new research programme on Global Health and Development, with a focus on health economics and health systems research in the South. In order to strengthen our capacity in this field, CMI is seeking a PhD candidate for
3 years with a possible 1 year extension.
The Bergen Seminar in Development Economics
Event | 19 Nov 2008
This year's biannual seminar cover topics ranging from organised crime and human capital formation, to the role of cash transfers in reducing poverty and vulnerability.
Italy, Tanzania, Sudan