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Does the Nonfarm Economy Offer Pathways for Upward Mobility? Evidence from a Panel Data Study in Ethiopia

Journal Article | Aug 2012

Empirical studies across many developing countries routinely document a positive correlation between participation in rural nonfarm employment ...

rural nonfarm, , income dynamics, , income diversification, , Africa, , Ethiopia, , impact

Ethnic Mobilization in Resource-Abundant African States. Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of the Role of Ethnic Identity and Natural Resources in Armed Intrastate Conflicts

Doctoral Thesis | Jan 2015

Ethnic Mobilization in Resource-Abundant African States. Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of th

"Xiculungo" - Social Relations of Urban Poverty in Maputo, Mozambique

CMI Report | Jan 2007

This report is the second in a series of six participatory and qualitative studies on poverty in Mozambique, undertaken as part of the monitoring ...

Mozambique, Urban areas, Poverty

Reflections: Middle East studies at the barricades - Basic ethnography at the barricades

Journal Article | Aug 2011

We did not see them growing up. We did not think these jaded middle-class boys and girls would one day be resilient and hold their ground. We ...

Egypt

Community mobilization after an earthquake: case study of the use of the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings on mental health and psychosocial support in Peru

Journal Article | Jan 2008

This article describes and analyzes the first comprehensive case study of the application of the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial ...

Mental Health, Emergency settings, Peru

Litigating the right to a healthy environment assessing the policy impact of "The Mendoza Case"

CMI Report | Nov 2011

This thesis enquires into the policy consequences of the Mendoza case, a public interest litigation case in Argentina, in which several ...

Pollution, River basins, Supreme court, Litigation, Argentina

A Contradictory Mission? NATO from Stabilization to Combat in Afghanistan

Journal Article | May 2008

Between 2001 and 2007, the United States and NATO gradually abandoned the commitment to a light military footprint in Afghanistan, initially ...

Peacebuilding, NATO, , Afghanistan

Local government revenue mobilisation in Anglophone Africa

CMI Working Paper | Oct 2012

This paper examines opportunities and constraints facing local revenue mobilization in Anglophone Africa with an emphasis on urban settings. ...

Local government, Decentralization, Taxes, Business licenses, User fees, Africa, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

The New Deal as an anti-corruption tool? Don't blame the policy, work with it

U4 Brief | Jan 2015

Full text on mobile or tablet The New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States provides a framework in which donors and host countries establish ...

fragile states

Women’s Equal Rights and Islam in Sudanese Republican Thought: A Translation of Three Family Law Booklets from 1975, Produced and Circulated by the Republican Sisters

Sudan Working Paper | Aug 2015

This paper includes a translation of three booklets produced by the Sudanese Republican Sisters in commemoration of International Women’s ...

Sudan, Republican Brothers, Islam, Women's rights, Family law

Does the Nonfarm Economy Offer Pathways for Upward Mobility? Evidence from a Panel Data Study in Ethiopia

Journal Article | Aug 2012

Empirical studies across many developing countries routinely document a positive correlation between participation in rural nonfarm employment ...

Ethiopia

Campements, abris et squats: Des zones floues où vivent les réfugiés syriens au Liban (Camps, shelters, squats: Syrian refugees in Lebanon’s twilight zones)

Journal Article | Jan 2017

In Lebanon, self-settled Syrian refugees live under very difficult, poor and unsanitary conditions in camps, shelters, and squatted buildings. ...

displacement, emplacement, urban refugees, dwellings, Beirut, Lebanon, Lebanon, Syria

The Battle over abortion rights in Brazil's state arenas, 1995-2006

Journal Article | Jun 2017

This article proposes a relational approach to the study of abortion law reform in Brazil. It focuses on the interaction of pro-choice and anti-abortion ...

Taxation and development: a review of donor support to strengthen tax systems in developing countries

Report in External Series | Feb 2013

Recent years have seen a growing interest among donors on taxation in developing countries. This reflects a concern for domestic revenue mobilization ...

Tax policy, Tax administration, Technical assistance, Developing countries

The Gatekeepers: Political Participation of Women in Malawi

CMI Brief | Aug 2016

All over the world, there are gatekeepers with the power to facilitate – or restrict – peoples’ access. We have studied the ...

women, politics, political parties, Malawi

South Sudan “arrivals” in the White Nile State (Sudan). Not citizens, not IDPs, not Refugees: What are they?

Sudan Working Paper | Dec 2016

This paper discusses the living conditions of the so called “arrivals,”{1} South Sudanese refugees in Sudan, most of whom now reside ...

arrivals, refugees, South Sudan, Sudan, White Nile State, Khartoum

Digital Revolutions: Assessing the Role, Influence, and Potential

Project | Aug 2015 - Dec 2016

Rationale Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and the University of Bergen Department of Comparative Politics have received seed funding from ...

Nepal, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda

The Ethiopian "model family": Primary Health Care Provision in the Developmental state

Project | Sep 2014 - Jan 2016

Aiming to provide universal access to basic health services and empower communities to take charge of their own health, the Ethiopian government ...

Ethiopia

Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America

Project | Jul 2014 - Jun 2017

The project analyses the strategic use of rights and law in battles over abortion rights in Latin America – and the various effects of ...

Abortion, lawfare, legal mobilization, right to life, right to health, religion, transnational activist networks, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, El Salvador

Muslim devotional practices

Project | Sep - Dec 2012

Muslim Devotional Practices is funded by the Research Council of Norway's program Assigning Cultural Values (KULVER). The project explores ...