What impact has Tanzania's Local Government Reform Programme had on local governance, finances and service delivery? Have there been any ...

This paper reviews the tax system in Tanzania, and gives particular attention to the tax reform proposals presented in the Report of the Presidential ...

Angola is currently implementing a tax reform. The main objective of the reform is to increase non-oil tax revenues by broadening the tax base, ...

This paper charts the current evidence on effectiveness of different anti-corruption reforms, and identifies significant evidence gaps. Despite ...

Reforming the personal income tax legislation in Angola has been under preparation since 2011. There are many challenges related to creating ...

Tax reforms are no longer the exclusive domain of the International Monetary Fund, external experts, and the Ministry of Finance. Increasingly, ...

It has long been debated whether Africa's lack of growth is best explained by the continent's exploitation by the global system, or by internal ...

In the past, Brazilian intellectuals have coined the term “metaphor of war” to account for the representations of the crime and violence in Rio de Janeiro. The logic of war is at the very core of Rio’s pacification of the favelas, which in practice is carried out through armed confrontations between the police and armed groups within pacified favelas, where the main objective (on both sides), in spite of the rhetoric of peace, is still to kill the enemy.

National procurement systems handle a substantial share of total government expenditures in most countries. If the public procurement systems ...

The United Nations is involved in the promotion of human rights in a number of areas, particularly through the Office of the High Commissioner ...

The World Bank's 'Independent Evaluation Group' (IEG) is undertaking an evaluation of the Bank's support for public sector ...

The overall objective of phase 2 (2005-2009) of this research programme is to document the processes of change and impacts of the ongoing Local ...

This field study will be a follow-up to original research on the local government reform process that the applicant participated in between ...

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has commissioned CMI to review contributions by foreign donors to security sector reform. The study ...

The overall aim of this four year research programme is to document processes of change and impacts of the Local Government Reform Programme ...

Political scientist focusing on democratisation and human rights, economic reform, taxation, institutional change and international aid, with a particular emphasis on Southern and Eastern Africa.

Over the past two decades many developing countries have implemented comprehensive reforms of their tax administrations in order to increase ...

How far has the recent global wave of tax reform contributed to state building in poorer countries? Our conclusion mirrors other general globalisation ...

The dilemma facing new democracies attempting to implement political and economic reform simultaneously is that democratisation may undermine ...

Over the past two decades many developing countries have implemented comprehensive reforms of their tax administrations in order to increase ...