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Local Government Reform in Tanzania 2002 - 2005: Summary of Research Findings on Governance, Finance and Service Delivery
Report in External Series | Jan 2006
What impact has Tanzania's Local Government Reform Programme had on local governance, finances and service delivery? Have there been any ...
Local government, decentralisation, governance, service delivery, public finances, Tanzania
Taxation and tax reforms in Tanzania: A survey
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1995
This paper reviews the tax system in Tanzania, and gives particular attention to the tax reform proposals presented in the Report of the Presidential ...
Africa: Tanzania
Taking stock of the tax reform process in Angola, and why tax incentives should be avoided
Angola Brief | Jun 2012
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, ...
Angola
Mapping evidence gaps in anti-corruption: Assessing the state of the operationally relevant evidence on donors' actions and approaches to reducing corruption
U4 Issue | Nov 2012
This paper charts the current evidence on effectiveness of different anti-corruption reforms, and identifies significant evidence gaps. Despite ...
Anti-corruption, Corruption, Donor, Interventions, Civil society, Public sector reform, Budget support, Review, Evidence, Operational guidance, Assessment, evaluation measurement
Reforming the personal income tax system in Angola: An alternative proposal
CMI Insight | Jun 2014
Reforming the personal income tax legislation in Angola has been under preparation since 2011. There are many challenges related to creating ...
Angola
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
Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development
Book | Jul 2018
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 ...
Tax, coercion, reform, Africa
Seven months of war in the favela
News | 13 Aug 2015
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.
Linking procurement and political economy
Project | Feb - Nov 2010
National procurement systems handle a substantial share of total government expenditures in most countries. If the public procurement systems ...
procurement, political economy analysis
The Role of the EU in UN Human Rights Reform (COST Action IS 0702)
Project | Jan 2009 - Dec 2012
The United Nations is involved in the promotion of human rights in a number of areas, particularly through the Office of the High Commissioner ...
European Union, United Nations, Human Rights, Global
Evaluation of the World Bank's Support for Public Sector Reform
Project | Jun 2007 - Jun 2008
The World Bank's 'Independent Evaluation Group' (IEG) is undertaking an evaluation of the Bank's support for public sector ...
Developing countries, transitionary countries, corruption, transparency, public sector, evaluation
Local government reform in Tanzania (Phase 2)
Project | Sep 2005 - Dec 2009
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 ...
Local government, Fiscal decentralisation, Public financial management, Governance, Tanzania
Municipalities in Mozambique - 5 years since the first local elections, a follow-up study
Project | Nov - Dec 2003
This field study will be a follow-up to original research on the local government reform process that the applicant participated in between ...
Africa: Mozambique
Security sector reform
Project | Jan - Oct 2003
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has commissioned CMI to review contributions by foreign donors to security sector reform. The study ...
Local government reform in Tanzania
Project | Jan 2002 - Jul 2005
The overall aim of this four year research programme is to document processes of change and impacts of the Local Government Reform Programme ...
Tanzania
Rakner Lise
Senior Researcher (20%)
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.
Democratisation, human rights, governance, electoral administration, political parties, economic reform, institutional change, taxation, and aid effectiveness, Africa: Sub Saharan Africa, in particular Namibia, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi
Corruption in Tax Administration: Lessons from Institutional Reforms in Uganda
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2005
Over the past two decades many developing countries have implemented comprehensive reforms of their tax administrations in order to increase ...
Corruption, Incentives, Social norms, Tax administration, Tax evasion, Uganda, JEL classification: D73, H26, H30, J33, K42, Z13, Africa: Uganda
Taxation and State Building: Poor Countries in a Globalised World
CMI Working Paper | Dec 2007
How far has the recent global wave of tax reform contributed to state building in poorer countries? Our conclusion mirrors other general globalisation ...
Taxation, Accountability, State building, Developing countries, JEL classification: F59, H20, H30, O10
The pluralist paradox. The decline of economic interest groups in Zambia in the 1990s
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000
The dilemma facing new democracies attempting to implement political and economic reform simultaneously is that democratisation may undermine ...
Africa: Zambia
Corruption in Tax Administration: Lessons from Institutional Reforms in Uganda
Book Chapter | Jan 2006
Over the past two decades many developing countries have implemented comprehensive reforms of their tax administrations in order to increase ...
Corruption, incentives, social norms, tax administration, tax evasion, Uganda, East Africa