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Regulatory Burdens in Tax Administration and Firms’ Compliance Costs in Africa

Report in External Series | Jan 2018

This paper examines the effect of regulatory burdens related to tax administration on firms' compliance costs in Africa. Using cross-country ...

regulatory burden, tax administration, compliance costs, firms, Africa, Africa

Manipulating political decentralisation: Africa's Inclusive Autocrats

Book | Jan 2018

Can autocrats establish representative subnational governments? And which strategies of manipulation are available if they would like to reduce ...

Decentralisation -- Africa, Central-local government relations -- Africa, Political participation, Mobilisation, Control, Autocracy, Ethiopia, Uganda, South Africa

Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation

Edited Book | Nov 2019

Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different ...

Political corruption, Corruption, Power preservation, Political economy analysis, Bribery, Favouritism, Vote buying, Civil society, Media, Anti-corruption, 'Big Man', Patronage, Elections, Resource curse, Clientelism, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa, Malawi

Avoiding Africa's Oil Curse

Event | 23 May 2014

East Africa is the global oil and gas industry's hottest frontier. Several west and central African states have already experienced petroleum booms of their own. What can East Africa learn from their experiences?

Angola and Norway - the perfect partnership? Business, politics and the challenge of human rights

Event | 23 Sep 2014

LIVE STREAMING NOW Angola is Norway's "biggest and most important economic partner in Africa" says the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Does Norway's activity in Angola contribute to Angola's stability and development over time?

Angola

Norway's Africa policy

Book Chapter | Jan 2002

This article provides an overview of Norway's historical relations with Africa to date. It considers the full range of relations, from missionary ...

International relations, Norway, Africa

Donors turn blind eye to extortion in tax collection in Africa

Journal Article | Jan 2001

Donors focus increasingly on domestic revenue generation as a way of reducing aid dependence in Africa. But tax administrations in many African ...

Taxation, Foreign aid, Africa

Rural-urban linkages in sub-Saharan Africa: Contemporary debates and implications for Kenyan urban workers in the 21st century

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2004

Despite the rapid rate of urbanisation in Africa, most migrants retain links to their rural origins. Many households pursue a circular migration ...

Urbanization, Urban workers, Rural-urban links, Africa South of Sahara, Kenya, Africa: Kenya

Book review: The creation of African urban livelihoods in-between the formal and informal city

Book Review | Jan 2004

Review of Karen Tranberg-Hansen and Mariken Vaa (Eds.) Reconsidering Informality: Perspectives from urban Africa. Uppsala, The Nordic Africa ...

Informal economy, urban planning, Africa, Africa

Tax Evasion and Fiscal Corruption. Essays on Compliance and Tax Administrative Practices in East and South Africa

Doctoral Thesis | Jan 2006

Tax evasion and corruption in the tax administration hit developing countries hard. The purpose of this thesis is to shed light on these phenomena ...

Taxation, Tax evasion, Corruption, Tax administration, Africa: South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda

Budgetary processes and economic governance in Southern and Eastern Africa. Literature review.

Report in External Series | Jan 2004

This report is an overview of literature on budget processes and economic governance. The review takes stock of the latest advances in relevant ...

Southern Africa, Eastern Africa

Political institutions and economic reform: Zambia and South Africa in comparative context

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1996

This paper presents the theoretical and methodological framework of a joint research project by Lise Rakner and Tor Skålnes, "Political ...

Africa: South Africa, Zambia

The institutional impact of aid dependence on recipients in Africa

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1999

Heavy aid dependence can have significant effects on institutions and governance. In Botswana, Mauritius, Korea and Taiwan, high levels of aid ...

Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa

Institutions, mobility and resilience in the Fante migratory fisheries of West Africa

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2001

The fishery of the Fante town Moree in Ghana and its network of migrants in West Africa is here understood as a social field, whose institutions ...

Migration, institutions, fisheries management, Africa: Ghana, West Africa

Does Parliament matter in new democracies? The case of South Africa 1994-2000

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2001

The role of parliaments is a neglected topic in the study of the democratisation in sub-Saharan Africa. This working paper provides a case study ...

Africa: South Africa

Reporting Africa: Soft Power, Media and Civic Engagement

Journal Article | Jan 2013

The turn of the century saw new trends in China’s foreign affair policies springing up. Rebuilding its humanitarian cause, promoting economic ...

China

Prospects for peace, security and human rights in Africa's Horn

Edited Book | Jan 2004

This book deals with the prospects for peaceful change, human rights and state-building in the Horn of Africa. There are few regions in the ...

Peace, Peace keeping, Human rights, Africa: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda

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 ...

Winning hearts and minds: Chinese Soft Power Foreign Policy in Africa

CMI Brief | Sep 2013

In President Xi Jinping’s first public speech on African soil after taking office in Tanzania 25 March 2013, his reference to a popular ...

soft power, media, culture, education, media, China, Africa

Bands crossing borders: A review of the cooperation between South Africa's Field Band Foundation and Norges Musikkorps Forbund

CMI Report | Nov 2013

The Bands Crossing Borders project between South Africa’s Field Band Foundation and the Norwegian Band Federation was initiated in 1999 ...

Music, Norway, South Africa